| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Implicit bias in healthcare professionals: a systematic review | BMC Medical Ethics | 2017 | 1,345 |
| 2 | Parental Influence on Eating Behavior: Conception to Adolescence | Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics | 2007 | 1,018 |
| 3 | Quality of life in cancer patients--an hypothesis. | Journal of Medical Ethics | 1984 | 876 |
| 4 | False Hopes and Best Data: Consent to Research and the Therapeutic Misconception | Hastings Center Report | 1987 | 746 |
| 5 | Public Health Ethics: Mapping the Terrain | Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics | 2002 | 693 |
| 6 | Procreative Beneficence: Why We Should Select the Best Children | Bioethics | 2001 | 629 |
| 7 | Managing Incidental Findings in Human Subjects Research: Analysis and Recommendations | Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics | 2008 | 594 |
| 8 | Nurse Moral Distress: a proposed theory and research agenda | Nursing Ethics | 2002 | 535 |
| 9 | Are animal models predictive for humans? | Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine | 2009 | 527 |
| 10 | Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study | Hastings Center Report | 1978 | 508 |
| 11 | Enough: The Failure of the Living Will | Hastings Center Report | 2004 | 493 |
| 12 | The medical ethics of the 'father of gynaecology', Dr J Marion Sims. | Journal of Medical Ethics | 1993 | 486 |
| 13 | Moral Distress, Moral Residue, and the Crescendo Effect | Journal of Clinical Ethics | 2009 | 448 |
| 14 | Nurse Moral Distress and Ethical Work Environment | Nursing Ethics | 2005 | 443 |
| 15 | An Ethics Framework for a Learning Health Care System: A Departure from Traditional Research Ethics and Clinical Ethics | Hastings Center Report | 2013 | 420 |
| 16 | Ethics needs principles--four can encompass the rest--and respect for autonomy should be "first among equals" | Journal of Medical Ethics | 2003 | 413 |
| 17 | Ethics Consultation in United States Hospitals: A National Survey | American Journal of Bioethics | 2007 | 405 |
| 18 | QALYfying the value of life. | Journal of Medical Ethics | 1987 | 381 |
| 19 | IN DEFENSE OF POSTHUMAN DIGNITY | Bioethics | 2005 | 379 |
| 20 | THE MORAL OBLIGATION TO CREATE CHILDREN WITH THE BEST CHANCE OF THE BEST LIFE | Bioethics | 2009 | 377 |
| 21 | Some limits of informed consent | Journal of Medical Ethics | 2003 | 364 |
| 22 | Artificial Intelligence and Black‐Box Medical Decisions: Accuracy versus Explainability | Hastings Center Report | 2019 | 360 |
| 23 | Improving understanding in the research informed consent process: a systematic review of 54 interventions tested in randomized control trials | BMC Medical Ethics | 2013 | 358 |
| 24 | The Girl Who Cried Pain: A Bias against Women in the Treatment of Pain | Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics | 2001 | 325 |
| 25 | A Critique of Clinical Equipoise: Therapeutic Misconception in the Ethics of Clinical Trials | Hastings Center Report | 2003 | 319 |
| 26 | Using Social Media as a Research Recruitment Tool: Ethical Issues and Recommendations | American Journal of Bioethics | 2017 | 306 |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | The Limitations of “Vulnerability” as a Protection for Human Research Participants | American Journal of Bioethics | 2004 | 303 |
| 29 | Registered Nurses’ Perceptions of Moral Distress and Ethical Climate | Nursing Ethics | 2009 | 298 |
| 30 | Moral distress, moral residue, and the crescendo effect | Journal of Clinical Ethics | 2009 | 291 |
| 31 | Detecting, Preventing, and Responding to “Fraudsters” in Internet Research: Ethics and Tradeoffs | Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics | 2015 | 289 |
| 32 | Justice, Health, and Healthcare | American Journal of Bioethics | 2001 | 287 |
| 33 | Moral Distress Reconsidered | Nursing Ethics | 2008 | 283 |
| 34 | Moral distress experienced by nurses | Nursing Ethics | 2015 | 281 |
| 35 | Disclosing Individual Genetic Results to Research Participants | American Journal of Bioethics | 2006 | 277 |
| 36 | Treating Patients as Persons: A Capabilities Approach to Support Delivery of Person-Centered Care | American Journal of Bioethics | 2013 | 276 |
| 37 | The Dead Donor Rule | Hastings Center Report | 1999 | 275 |
| 38 | VULNERABILITY IN RESEARCH AND HEALTH CARE; DESCRIBING THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM? | Bioethics | 2008 | 274 |
| 39 | Weaving Technology and Policy Together to Maintain Confidentiality | Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics | 1997 | 264 |
| 40 | Nurses' Moral Sensitivity and Hospital Ethical Climate: a Literature Review | Nursing Ethics | 2008 | 261 |
| 41 | The social licence for research: whycare.dataran into trouble | Journal of Medical Ethics | 2015 | 260 |
| 42 | The Influence of Ethnicity and Race on Attitudes toward Advance Directives, Life-Prolonging Treatments, and Euthanasia | Journal of Clinical Ethics | 1993 | 260 |
| 43 | Seeking Better Health Care Outcomes: The Ethics of Using the “Nudge” | American Journal of Bioethics | 2012 | 254 |
| 44 | Just health: replies and further thoughts | Journal of Medical Ethics | 2009 | 252 |
| 45 | Medical and Ethical Consequences of the Human Genome Project | Journal of Clinical Ethics | 1991 | 252 |
| 46 | 3. Bentham in a Box: Technology Assessment and Health Care Allocation | Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics | 1986 | 249 |
| 47 | Critical Bioethics: Beyond the Social Science Critique of Applied Ethics | Bioethics | 2004 | 248 |
| 48 | Public Expectations for Return of Results from Large-Cohort Genetic Research | American Journal of Bioethics | 2008 | 248 |
| 49 | MORAL ENHANCEMENT AND FREEDOM | Bioethics | 2011 | 247 |
| 50 | Body Awareness: a phenomenological inquiry into the common ground of mind-body therapies | Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine | 2011 | 247 |
| 51 | Guilt, Fear, Stigma and Knowledge Gaps: Ethical Issues in Public Health Communication Interventions | Bioethics | 2004 | 246 |
| 52 | Ethics, Pandemics, and the Duty to Treat | American Journal of Bioethics | 2008 | 245 |
| 53 | The influence of risk and monetary payment on the research participation decision making process | Journal of Medical Ethics | 2004 | 244 |
| 54 | All Gifts Large and Small | American Journal of Bioethics | 2003 | 240 |
| 55 | Methods and principles in biomedical ethics | Journal of Medical Ethics | 2003 | 240 |
| 56 | Scientific research is a moral duty | Journal of Medical Ethics | 2005 | 240 |
| 57 | Moral distress in nursing | Nursing Ethics | 2013 | 240 |
| 58 | 'Hitting you over the head': Oncologists' disclosure of prognosis to advanced cancer patients | Bioethics | 2003 | 237 |
| 59 | A Rebuttal on Health | Biomedical Ethics Reviews | 1997 | 237 |
| 60 | Developing the Concept of Moral Sensitivity in Health Care Practice | Nursing Ethics | 2006 | 228 |
| 61 | Public responses to the sharing and linkage of health data for research purposes: a systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies | BMC Medical Ethics | 2016 | 226 |
| 62 | Ethical and Methodological Issues in Interviewing Persons With Dementia | Nursing Ethics | 2007 | 225 |
| 63 | The influence of ethnicity and race on attitudes toward advance directives, life-prolonging treatments, and euthanasia | Journal of Clinical Ethics | 1993 | 225 |
| 64 | Dynamic Consent: a potential solution to some of the challenges of modern biomedical research | BMC Medical Ethics | 2017 | 223 |
| 65 | Medicine and Public Health, Ethics and Human Rights | Hastings Center Report | 1997 | 221 |
| 66 | Broad Consent for Research With Biological Samples: Workshop Conclusions | American Journal of Bioethics | 2015 | 221 |
| 67 | Moral distress | Nursing Ethics | 2015 | 217 |
| 68 | The Tyranny of Principles | Hastings Center Report | 1981 | 215 |
| 69 | What is personalized medicine: sharpening a vague term based on a systematic literature review | BMC Medical Ethics | 2013 | 213 |
| 70 | Pandemic influenza preparedness: an ethical framework to guide decision-making | BMC Medical Ethics | 2006 | 211 |
| 71 | Legal physician-assisted dying in Oregon and the Netherlands: evidence concerning the impact on patients in "vulnerable" groups | Journal of Medical Ethics | 2007 | 211 |
| 72 | On the ethics of algorithmic decision-making in healthcare | Journal of Medical Ethics | 2020 | 210 |
| 73 | Crossing Species Boundaries | American Journal of Bioethics | 2003 | 209 |
| 74 | The Neurobiology of Addiction: Implications for Voluntary Control of Behavior | American Journal of Bioethics | 2007 | 209 |
| 75 | The Opioid Crisis in Black Communities | Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics | 2018 | 209 |
| 76 | The right not to know: an autonomy based approach | Journal of Medical Ethics | 2004 | 208 |
| 77 | Dworkin on Dementia: Elegant Theory, Questionable Policy | Hastings Center Report | 1995 | 207 |
| 78 | 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 |
| 79 | Models for Ethical Medicine in a Revolutionary Age | Hastings Center Report | 1972 | 205 |
| 80 | Race, Ethnicity, and Pain Treatment: Striving to Understand the Causes and Solutions to the Disparities in Pain Treatment | Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics | 2001 | 204 |
| 81 | The Research‐Treatment Distinction: A Problematic Approach for Determining Which Activities Should Have Ethical Oversight | Hastings Center Report | 2013 | 203 |
| 82 | What is ‘moral distress’? A narrative synthesis of the literature | Nursing Ethics | 2019 | 202 |
| 83 | The Family Covenant and Genetic Testing | American Journal of Bioethics | 2001 | 201 |
| 84 | Is It Time to Abandon Brain Death? | Hastings Center Report | 1997 | 199 |
| 85 | Teaching medical ethics and law within medical education: a model for the UK core curriculum. | Journal of Medical Ethics | 1998 | 197 |
| 86 | Trust: The Fragile Foundation of Contemporary Biomedical Research | Hastings Center Report | 1996 | 196 |
| 87 | Transplant Tourism in China: A Tale of Two Transplants | American Journal of Bioethics | 2010 | 196 |
| 88 | Burnout in palliative care: A systematic review | Nursing Ethics | 2011 | 196 |
| 89 | False hopes and best data: consent to research and the therapeutic misconception | Hastings Center Report | 1987 | 196 |
| 90 | Transparency: Informed Consent in Primary Care | Hastings Center Report | 1989 | 194 |
| 91 | Moral stress, moral climate and moral sensitivity among psychiatric professionals | Nursing Ethics | 2010 | 194 |
| 92 | The Many Faces of Competency | Hastings Center Report | 1985 | 193 |
| 93 | Genetic Dilemmas and the Child's Right to an Open Future | Hastings Center Report | 1997 | 193 |
| 94 | Effectiveness of antidepressants: an evidence myth constructed from a thousand randomized trials? | Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine | 2008 | 193 |
| 95 | Teaching ethics in the clinic. The theory and practice of moral case deliberation | Journal of Medical Ethics | 2008 | 192 |
| 96 | Defining and Describing Benefit Appropriately in Clinical Trials | Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics | 2000 | 191 |
| 97 | Is Deidentification Sufficient to Protect Health Privacy in Research? | American Journal of Bioethics | 2010 | 191 |
| 98 | Imaging or Imagining? A Neuroethics Challenge Informed by Genetics | American Journal of Bioethics | 2005 | 190 |
| 99 | Social Networkers' Attitudes Toward Direct-to-Consumer Personal Genome Testing | American Journal of Bioethics | 2009 | 189 |
| 100 | Moral Stress: synthesis of a concept | Nursing Ethics | 2003 | 188 |
