OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Neuroethics is 6. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Anti-Love Biomedical Intervention and the Necessity of Consent	56
The Ghosts of Psychedelic Science: Haunting and Moral Repair	50
Ethical Complexities and Best Practices in Informed Consent Processes for Psilocybin Services: A Qualitative Study	31
6G and Embodied AI: Benefits and Risks of Increasingly Extended Minds	28
To Live or Not to Live? The Effect of Mind Perception and Judgment Strategies on Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions for Patients in Persistent Vegetative States	27
Transformations, Tensions, and Transgressions: Neuroethical Reflections on Psychedelic Therapies	25
On the Possibility and Probability of Post-Persons: Neuroenhancements and Moral Status	25
Engagement, Exploitation, and Human Intracranial Electrophysiology Research	25
The Unintended Consequences of Chile’s Neurorights Constitutional Reform: Moving beyond Negative Rights to Capabilities	24
Safeguarding Users of Consumer Mental Health Apps in Research and Product Improvement Studies: an Interview Study	24
What (if anything) morally separates environmental from neurochemical behavioral interventions?	22
Damage and Restoration of Personal Identity in Deep Brain Stimulation: A Relational Perspective	18
The Psychological Risks of BCI-LLM Cognitive “Enhancement”	17
Mild Cognitive Impairment in Relation to Alzheimer’s Disease: An Investigation of Principles, Classifications, Ethics, and Problems	16
Protocol for Returning Results in Brain Science Research Targeting Individuals With Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Japan	15
The Ethical Implications of Illusionism	14
Living With Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease: a Systematic Review and Qualitative Synthesis of Patient Experiences	14
Neurorights – Do we Need New Human Rights? A Reconsideration of the Right to Freedom of Thought	13
Psychedelics Are Still Not Ethically Exceptional: Rebutting Recent Claims of Uniqueness	13
Exploring the Essence of the Freedom of Thought – A Normative Framework for Identifying Undue Mind Interventions	13
Ethical Challenges of Human-Machine Symbiosis in Brain-Computer Interfaces: Insights from Chinese Experts	12
A Double-Edged Sword: Ethical and Psychological Implications of APOE Genotype Disclosure Across the Lifespan	11
Recruitment and Engagement of Indigenous Peoples in Brain-Related Health Research	11
Mental Integrity in the Attention Economy: in Search of the Right to Attention	11
Revisiting Maher’s One-Factor Theory of Delusion, Again	11

Societal Collapse and Intergenerational Disparities in Suffering	10
When Are Psychiatric Patients Considered Less Credible? Implications for the Epistemic Injustice Debate	10
Responsibility, Mental Capacities, and Socially Deprived Offenders	10
Is the Treatment Worse than the Disease?: Key Stakeholders’ Views about the Use of Psychiatric Electroceutical Interventions for Treatment-Resistant Depression	10
The Ethics of Human Brain Organoid Transplantation in Animals	10
Limiting the Epistemic Argument Against Retributivism	9
Consciousness Ain’t All That	9
The Role of Family Members in Psychiatric Deep Brain Stimulation Trials: More Than Psychosocial Support	8
AI Algorithmic Bias, Neurodiscrimination, and Neurorights: Towards Conceptual Clarity in NeuroAI	8
Revolutionizing Brain Research Using Portable MRI in Field Settings: Public Perspectives on the Ethical and Legal Challenges	7
To Be, or Not to Be Exceptional: That Is the Question in Psychedelic Ethics	7
The Psychological Process Underlying Attitudes Toward Human-Animal Chimeric Brain Research: An Empirical Investigation	7
A Mixed-methods Study of Deep Brain Stimulation's Temporal Impact on Parkinson’s Disease Patients: Insights from Short-, Medium-, and Long-term Experiences	7
Conflicting Interests and New Frontiers: A Role for Virtue Ethics in Cutting Edge Brain Research with Humans	6
Brain age Prediction and the Challenge of Biological Concepts of Aging	6
One-Factor versus Two-Factor Theory of Delusion: Replies to Sullivan-Bissett and Noordhof	6
Implications of Genetic Explanations for Addiction: Insights from Clinicians	6
Why We Need Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) in Neuroethics	6