OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Neuroethics is 5. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Anti-Love Biomedical Intervention and the Necessity of Consent	57
Safeguarding Users of Consumer Mental Health Apps in Research and Product Improvement Studies: an Interview Study	55
Pharmacological Cognitive Enhancement and Cheapened Achievement: A New Dilemma	34
Engagement, Exploitation, and Human Intracranial Electrophysiology Research	28
What (if anything) morally separates environmental from neurochemical behavioral interventions?	25
On the Possibility and Probability of Post-Persons: Neuroenhancements and Moral Status	20
The Unintended Consequences of Chile’s Neurorights Constitutional Reform: Moving beyond Negative Rights to Capabilities	20
Mild Cognitive Impairment in Relation to Alzheimer’s Disease: An Investigation of Principles, Classifications, Ethics, and Problems	19
Exploring the Essence of the Freedom of Thought – A Normative Framework for Identifying Undue Mind Interventions	11
Review of Walter Glannon’s The Neuroethics of Memory: From Total Recall to Oblivion, Cambridge University Press, 2019	11
Neurorights – Do we Need New Human Rights? A Reconsideration of the Right to Freedom of Thought	11
The Ethical Implications of Illusionism	11
Protocol for Returning Results in Brain Science Research Targeting Individuals With Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Japan	10
Mental Integrity in the Attention Economy: in Search of the Right to Attention	10
Recruitment and Engagement of Indigenous Peoples in Brain-Related Health Research	9
The Ethics of Human Brain Organoid Transplantation in Animals	9
Societal Collapse and Intergenerational Disparities in Suffering	8
Human Brain Organoids and Consciousness	8
Is the Treatment Worse than the Disease?: Key Stakeholders’ Views about the Use of Psychiatric Electroceutical Interventions for Treatment-Resistant Depression	8
Revisiting Maher’s One-Factor Theory of Delusion, Again	8
Limiting the Epistemic Argument Against Retributivism	7
The Role of Family Members in Psychiatric Deep Brain Stimulation Trials: More Than Psychosocial Support	7
Consciousness Ain’t All That	7
Preserving Narrative Identity for Dementia Patients: Embodiment, Active Environments, and Distributed Memory	7
Responsibility, Mental Capacities, and Socially Deprived Offenders	7

The Psychological Process Underlying Attitudes Toward Human-Animal Chimeric Brain Research: An Empirical Investigation	6
Ethical Implications of the Impact of Fracking on Brain Health	6
One-Factor versus Two-Factor Theory of Delusion: Replies to Sullivan-Bissett and Noordhof	6
Neurotechnological Applications and the Protection of Mental Privacy: An Assessment of Risks	6
Brain age Prediction and the Challenge of Biological Concepts of Aging	6
Rationales and Approaches to Protecting Brain Data: a Scoping Review	6
Informal Caregivers of Patients with Disorders of Consciousness: a Qualitative Study of Communication Experiences and Information Needs with Physicians	5
Neuroenhancements in the Military: A Mixed-Method Pilot Study on Attitudes of Staff Officers to Ethics and Rules	5
The Illusion of Agency in Human–Computer Interaction	5
Revisiting Moral Bioenhancement and Autonomy	5
Philosophical foundation of the right to mental integrity in the age of neurotechnologies	5
The Impact of Dementia on the Self: Do We Consider Ourselves the Same as Others?	5