| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Sustainable Food Consumption: Exploring the Consumer “Attitude – Behavioral Intention” Gap | Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics | 2006 | 1,600 |
| 2 | False Hopes and Best Data: Consent to Research and the Therapeutic Misconception | Hastings Center Report | 1987 | 746 |
| 3 | Procreative Beneficence: Why We Should Select the Best Children | Bioethics | 2001 | 629 |
| 4 | Amounts of pesticides reaching target pests: Environmental impacts and ethics | Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics | 1995 | 566 |
| 5 | Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study | Hastings Center Report | 1978 | 508 |
| 6 | Enough: The Failure of the Living Will | Hastings Center Report | 2004 | 493 |
| 7 | Parental refusals of medical treatment: the harm principle as threshold for state intervention | Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics | 2004 | 432 |
| 8 | An Ethics Framework for a Learning Health Care System: A Departure from Traditional Research Ethics and Clinical Ethics | Hastings Center Report | 2013 | 420 |
| 9 | Ethics Consultation in United States Hospitals: A National Survey | American Journal of Bioethics | 2007 | 405 |
| 10 | IN DEFENSE OF POSTHUMAN DIGNITY | Bioethics | 2005 | 379 |
| 11 | THE MORAL OBLIGATION TO CREATE CHILDREN WITH THE BEST CHANCE OF THE BEST LIFE | Bioethics | 2009 | 377 |
| 12 | Artificial Intelligence and Black‐Box Medical Decisions: Accuracy versus Explainability | Hastings Center Report | 2019 | 360 |
| 13 | (null) | Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics | 2002 | 334 |
| 14 | A Critique of Clinical Equipoise: Therapeutic Misconception in the Ethics of Clinical Trials | Hastings Center Report | 2003 | 319 |
| 15 | Using Social Media as a Research Recruitment Tool: Ethical Issues and Recommendations | American Journal of Bioethics | 2017 | 306 |
| 16 | Health Care Ethics Consultation: An Update on Core Competencies and Emerging Standards from the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities’ Core Competencies Update Task Force | American Journal of Bioethics | 2013 | 304 |
| 17 | The Limitations of “Vulnerability” as a Protection for Human Research Participants | American Journal of Bioethics | 2004 | 303 |
| 18 | The Flaws and Human Harms of Animal Experimentation | Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics | 2015 | 289 |
| 19 | Justice, Health, and Healthcare | American Journal of Bioethics | 2001 | 287 |
| 20 | Disclosing Individual Genetic Results to Research Participants | American Journal of Bioethics | 2006 | 277 |
| 21 | Treating Patients as Persons: A Capabilities Approach to Support Delivery of Person-Centered Care | American Journal of Bioethics | 2013 | 276 |
| 22 | The Dead Donor Rule | Hastings Center Report | 1999 | 275 |
| 23 | VULNERABILITY IN RESEARCH AND HEALTH CARE; DESCRIBING THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM? | Bioethics | 2008 | 274 |
| 24 | Misunderstanding in Clinical Research: Distinguishing Therapeutic Misconception, Therapeutic Misestimation, & Therapeutic Optimism | IRB: Ethics & Human Research | 2003 | 265 |
| 25 | Seeking Better Health Care Outcomes: The Ethics of Using the “Nudge” | American Journal of Bioethics | 2012 | 254 |
| 26 | Therapeutic Misconception in Clinical Research: Frequency and Risk Factors | IRB: Ethics & Human Research | 2004 | 253 |
| 27 | Critical Bioethics: Beyond the Social Science Critique of Applied Ethics | Bioethics | 2004 | 248 |
| 28 | Public Expectations for Return of Results from Large-Cohort Genetic Research | American Journal of Bioethics | 2008 | 248 |
| 29 | MORAL ENHANCEMENT AND FREEDOM | Bioethics | 2011 | 247 |
| 30 | Guilt, Fear, Stigma and Knowledge Gaps: Ethical Issues in Public Health Communication Interventions | Bioethics | 2004 | 246 |
| 31 | Ethics, Pandemics, and the Duty to Treat | American Journal of Bioethics | 2008 | 245 |
| 32 | All Gifts Large and Small | American Journal of Bioethics | 2003 | 240 |
| 33 | 'Hitting you over the head': Oncologists' disclosure of prognosis to advanced cancer patients | Bioethics | 2003 | 237 |
| 34 | Informing Study Participants of Research Results: An Ethical Imperative | IRB: Ethics & Human Research | 2003 | 233 |
| 35 | The Doctor as Double Agent | Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal | 1993 | 231 |
| 36 | A Systematic Review of Public Attitudes, Perceptions and Behaviours Towards Production Diseases Associated with Farm Animal Welfare | Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics | 2016 | 228 |
| 37 | Anthropocentrism: More than Just a Misunderstood Problem | Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics | 2018 | 225 |
| 38 | Medicine and Public Health, Ethics and Human Rights | Hastings Center Report | 1997 | 221 |
| 39 | Broad Consent for Research With Biological Samples: Workshop Conclusions | American Journal of Bioethics | 2015 | 221 |
| 40 | Toward a Virtue-Based Normative Ethics for the Health Professions | Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal | 1995 | 220 |
| 41 | The Institute of Medicine | Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal | 1992 | 218 |
| 42 | The Tyranny of Principles | Hastings Center Report | 1981 | 215 |
| 43 | Untapped Potential: IRB Guidance for the Ethical Research Use of Stored Biological Materials | IRB: Ethics & Human Research | 2004 | 212 |
| 44 | The evolution of sustainability | Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics | 1992 | 211 |
| 45 | Crossing Species Boundaries | American Journal of Bioethics | 2003 | 209 |
| 46 | The Neurobiology of Addiction: Implications for Voluntary Control of Behavior | American Journal of Bioethics | 2007 | 209 |
| 47 | Dworkin on Dementia: Elegant Theory, Questionable Policy | Hastings Center Report | 1995 | 207 |
| 48 | To Tell the Truth, the Whole Truth, May Do Patients Harm: The Problem of the Nocebo Effect for Informed Consent | American Journal of Bioethics | 2012 | 207 |
| 49 | The Case for Conserving Disability | Journal of Bioethical Inquiry | 2012 | 207 |
| 50 | Models for Ethical Medicine in a Revolutionary Age | Hastings Center Report | 1972 | 205 |
| 51 | The Research‐Treatment Distinction: A Problematic Approach for Determining Which Activities Should Have Ethical Oversight | Hastings Center Report | 2013 | 203 |
| 52 | The Family Covenant and Genetic Testing | American Journal of Bioethics | 2001 | 201 |
| 53 | Is It Time to Abandon Brain Death? | Hastings Center Report | 1997 | 199 |
| 54 | The Word "Bioethics": Its Birth and the Legacies of those Who Shaped It | Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal | 1994 | 196 |
| 55 | Trust: The Fragile Foundation of Contemporary Biomedical Research | Hastings Center Report | 1996 | 196 |
| 56 | Normal Functioning and the Treatment-Enhancement Distinction | Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics | 2000 | 196 |
| 57 | Transplant Tourism in China: A Tale of Two Transplants | American Journal of Bioethics | 2010 | 196 |
| 58 | False hopes and best data: consent to research and the therapeutic misconception | Hastings Center Report | 1987 | 196 |
| 59 | Transparency: Informed Consent in Primary Care | Hastings Center Report | 1989 | 194 |
| 60 | Reducing Meat Consumption in Today’s Consumer Society: Questioning the Citizen-Consumer Gap | Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics | 2012 | 194 |
| 61 | The Many Faces of Competency | Hastings Center Report | 1985 | 193 |
| 62 | Genetic Dilemmas and the Child's Right to an Open Future | Hastings Center Report | 1997 | 193 |
| 63 | Is Deidentification Sufficient to Protect Health Privacy in Research? | American Journal of Bioethics | 2010 | 191 |
| 64 | Imaging or Imagining? A Neuroethics Challenge Informed by Genetics | American Journal of Bioethics | 2005 | 190 |
| 65 | Social Networkers' Attitudes Toward Direct-to-Consumer Personal Genome Testing | American Journal of Bioethics | 2009 | 189 |
| 66 | The Genesis of Public Health Ethics | Bioethics | 2004 | 188 |
| 67 | THE BIRTH OF THE EMPIRICAL TURN IN BIOETHICS | Bioethics | 2005 | 187 |
| 68 | Health Literacy, Health Inequality and a Just Healthcare System | American Journal of Bioethics | 2007 | 186 |
| 69 | Is Health Worker Migration a Case of Poaching? | American Journal of Bioethics | 2009 | 184 |
| 70 | Deaf Culture, Cochlear Implants, and Elective Disability | Hastings Center Report | 1998 | 181 |
| 71 | Self-Determination vs. Family-Determination: Two Incommensurable Principles of Autonomy | Bioethics | 1997 | 180 |
| 72 | Experiences of Genetic Risk: Disclosure and the Gendering of Responsibility | Bioethics | 2001 | 179 |
| 73 | Money for Research Participation: Does It Jeopardize Informed Consent? | American Journal of Bioethics | 2001 | 179 |
| 74 | Enough. The failure of the living will | Hastings Center Report | 2004 | 179 |
| 75 | "Ambiguous Sex": Or Ambivalent Medicine? Ethical Issues in the Treatment of Intersexuality | Hastings Center Report | 1998 | 178 |
| 76 | What can the Social Sciences Contribute to the Study of Ethics? Theoretical, Empirical and Substantive Considerations | Bioethics | 2002 | 178 |
| 77 | Assessing the Importance of Natural Behavior for Animal Welfare | Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics | 2006 | 178 |
| 78 | Reframing Consent for Clinical Research: A Function-Based Approach | American Journal of Bioethics | 2017 | 176 |
| 79 | Voluntary Active Euthanasia | Hastings Center Report | 1992 | 175 |
| 80 | The Ideal of Shared Decision Making Between Physicians and Patients | Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal | 1991 | 174 |
| 81 | A Defense of the Whole-Brain Concept of Death | Hastings Center Report | 1998 | 174 |
| 82 | Autonomy and Behavior Control | Hastings Center Report | 1976 | 170 |
| 83 | The Rise of Citizen Science in Health and Biomedical Research | American Journal of Bioethics | 2019 | 170 |
| 84 | Covid‐19: Ethical Challenges for Nurses | Hastings Center Report | 2020 | 169 |
| 85 | What about the Family? | Hastings Center Report | 1990 | 167 |
| 86 | Ethanol fuels: Energy security, economics, and the environment | Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics | 1991 | 167 |
| 87 | Do Non-Native Species Threaten The Natural Environment? | Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics | 2005 | 167 |
| 88 | All Gifts Large and Small: Toward an Understanding of the Ethics of Pharmaceutical Industry Gift-Giving | American Journal of Bioethics | 2010 | 167 |
| 89 | Managing Socio-Ethical Challenges in the Development of Smart Farming: From a Fragmented to a Comprehensive Approach for Responsible Research and Innovation | Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics | 2019 | 167 |
| 90 | Clinical interpretation: The hermeneutics of medicine | Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics | 1990 | 166 |
| 91 | The Impending Collapse of the Whole-Brain Definition of Death | Hastings Center Report | 1993 | 166 |
| 92 | 'Due' and 'Undue' Inducements: On Pasing Money to Research Subjects | IRB: Ethics & Human Research | 1981 | 165 |
| 93 | Consumer Attitudes Towards the Development of Animal-Friendly Husbandry Systems | Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics | 2005 | 165 |
| 94 | Vegetarian Meat: Could Technology Save Animals and Satisfy Meat Eaters? | Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics | 2008 | 165 |
| 95 | Keeping Moral Space Open New Images of Ethics Consulting | Hastings Center Report | 1993 | 164 |
| 96 | (null) | Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics | 2000 | 164 |
| 97 | Why Doctors Don't Disclose Uncertainty | Hastings Center Report | 1984 | 163 |
| 98 | What Makes Placebo-Controlled Trials Unethical? | American Journal of Bioethics | 2002 | 163 |
| 99 | The Ancillary-Care Responsibilities of Medical Researchers: An Ethical Framework for Thinking about the Clinical Care That Researchers Owe Their Subjects | Hastings Center Report | 2004 | 162 |
| 100 | Moral Distress and Moral Conflict in Clinical Ethics | Bioethics | 2015 | 162 |
