OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Neuroethics is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Addiction and Volitional Abilities: Stakeholders’ Understandings and their Ethical and Practical Implications	92
A Conceptual Framework to Safeguard the Neuroright to Personal Autonomy	42
Against Aggression? Revisiting an Overlooked Contender for Moral Bioenhancement	41
Identifying the Presence of Ethics Concepts in Chronic Pain Research: A Scoping Review of Neuroscience Journals	28
Neurorehabilitation of Offenders, Consent and Consequentialist Ethics	16
Societal Collapse and Intergenerational Disparities in Suffering	14
Caregivers of ALS Patients: Their Experiences and Needs	13
Exculpation and Stigma in Tourette Syndrome	12
Consciousness Ain’t All That	10
Unlocking the Voices of Patients with Severe Brain Injury	8
Challenges to the Diagnosis of Functional Neurological Disorder: Feigning, Intentionality, and Responsibility	8
Potential Consciousness of Human Cerebral Organoids: on Similarity-Based Views in Precautionary Discourse	8
Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease: Why Earlier Use Makes Shared Decision Making Important	8
Memory Modification and Authenticity: A Narrative Approach	7
Anti-Love Biomedical Intervention and the Necessity of Consent	7
When the Trial Ends: The Case for Post-Trial Provisions in Clinical Psychedelic Research	6
Novel Neurorights: From Nonsense to Substance	6
Does Imagination Justify the Belief that Supra-Persons Are Physically Possible?	6
Neither the “Devil’s Lettuce” nor a “Miracle Cure:” The Use of Medical Cannabis in the Care of Children and Youth	6
Why Won’t You Listen To Me? Predictive Neurotechnology and Epistemic Authority	6
Correction to: First Epileptic Seizure and Initial Diagnosis of Juvenile Myoclonus Epilepsy (JME) in a Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) Study– Ethical Analysis of a Clinical Case	6
Human Brain Organoids and the Mereological Fallacy	6
Preserving Narrative Identity for Dementia Patients: Embodiment, Active Environments, and Distributed Memory	5
When Do People Have an Obligation Not to Tic? Blame, Free Will, and Moral Character Judgments of People with Tourette’s Syndrome	5
Pessimism Counts in Favor of Biomedical Enhancement: A Lesson from the Anti-Natalist Philosophy of P. W. Zapffe	5

The Role of Family Members in Psychiatric Deep Brain Stimulation Trials: More Than Psychosocial Support	5
How to Advance the Debate on the Criminal Responsibility of Antisocial Offenders	5
How Do Psychedelics Reduce Fear of Death?	4
Neurointerventions in Criminal Justice: On the Scope of the Moral Right to Bodily Integrity	4
Affect and Human Electrophysiological Research	4
An Afro-Communitarian Relational Approach to Brain Surrogates Research	4
Do Different Kinds of Minds Need Different Kinds of Services? Qualitative Results from a Mixed-Method Survey of Service Preferences of Autistic Adults and Parents	4
Recommendations for Responsible Development and Application of Neurotechnologies	4
The Reliability Challenge to Moral Intuitions	4
Autism and the Case Against Job Interviews	4
Merging Minds: The Conceptual and Ethical Impacts of Emerging Technologies for Collective Minds	4
Invasive Neurotechnology: A Study of the Concept of Invasiveness in Neuroethics	4