| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Neurocognitive enhancement: what can we do and what should we do? | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2004 | 546 |
| 2 | Incorporating societal concerns for fairness in numerical valuations of health programmes | | 1999 | 297 |
| 3 | The Quality of Drug Studies Published in Symposium Proceedings | Annals of Internal Medicine | 1996 | 257 |
| 4 | Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism: A Commentary on the Global Realities | American Journal of Transplantation | 2008 | 234 |
| 5 | Genetic Research and Health Disparities | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2004 | 227 |
| 6 | Everyday ethics: ethical issues and stress in nursing practice | Journal of Advanced Nursing | 2010 | 170 |
| 7 | Early Diagnosis of Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva | Pediatrics | 2008 | 151 |
| 8 | Are Special Ethical Guidelines Needed For Palliative Care Research? | Journal of Pain and Symptom Management | 2000 | 146 |
| 9 | Is the Palliative Performance Scale a Useful Predictor of Mortality in a Heterogeneous Hospice Population? | Journal of Palliative Medicine | 2005 | 137 |
| 10 | GENETICS: Enhanced: Toward a New Vocabulary of Human Genetic Variation | Science | 2002 | 136 |
| 11 | Addressing the ethical, policy, and social challenges of preclinical Alzheimer disease | Neurology | 2011 | 113 |
| 12 | Diagnostic testing fails the test | Nature | 2002 | 112 |
| 13 | Patient perspectives on medical confidentiality | Journal of General Internal Medicine | 2003 | 107 |
| 14 | Bioethics and Human Rights: A Historical Perspective | Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics | 2001 | 103 |
| 15 | Ethical issues surrounding forced, mandated, or coerced treatment | Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment | 2006 | 101 |
| 16 | Cultural Competence and the Culture of Medicine | New England Journal of Medicine | 2005 | 100 |
| 17 | Conflicts of Interest in Cardiovascular Clinical Practice Guidelines | Archives of Internal Medicine | 2011 | 100 |
| 18 | Asian Medicine in America: The Ayurvedic Case | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science | 2002 | 94 |
| 19 | Gamete donation and anonymity | Human Reproduction | 2001 | 91 |
| 20 | Communication and Miscommunication in Informed Consent to Research | Medical Anthropology Quarterly | 2004 | 90 |
| 21 | Masking Author Identity in Peer Review | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 1998 | 85 |
| 22 | Nondirectiveness in genetic counseling: A survey of practitioners | American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A | 1997 | 81 |
| 23 | Variation in Standards of Research Compensation and Child Assent Practices: A Comparison of 69 Institutional Review Board-Approved Informed Permission and Assent Forms for 3 Multicenter Pediatric Clinical Trials | Pediatrics | 2006 | 80 |
| 24 | Lessons from the Failure of Human Papillomavirus Vaccine State Requirements | Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics | 2007 | 77 |
| 25 | How Do High School Students Justify Internet Plagiarism? | Ethics and Behavior | 2007 | 76 |
| 26 | Why Doesn't a Family Member of a Person With Advanced Dementia Use a Substituted Judgment When Making a Decision for That Person? | American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry | 2006 | 75 |
| 27 | Effects of Home Care on Caregivers' Psychosocial Status | Journal of Nursing Scholarship | 1999 | 70 |
| 28 | What Accounts for Differences or Disparities in Pediatric Palliative and End-of-Life Care? A Systematic Review Focusing on Possible Multilevel Mechanisms | Pediatrics | 2008 | 70 |
| 29 | Cognitive, social, and neural determinants of diminished decision-making and financial exploitation risk in aging and dementia: A review and new model | Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect | 2016 | 69 |
| 30 | How Does an Alzheimer’s Disease Patient’s Role in Medical Decision Making Change Over Time? | Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology | 2004 | 68 |
| 31 | Forensic genetics and ethical, legal and social implications beyond the clinic | Nature Genetics | 2004 | 67 |
| 32 | Forbidden Knowledge: Public Controversy and the Production of Nonknowledge1 | Sociological Forum | 2011 | 67 |
| 33 | “Iceland Inc.”?: On the ethics of commercial population genomics | Social Science and Medicine | 2004 | 66 |
| 34 | Everyday Decision-Making Ability in Older Persons With Cognitive Impairment | American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry | 2008 | 62 |
| 35 | Race and ethnicity in genetic research | American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A | 2007 | 61 |
| 36 | Protecting Subjects' Interests in Genetics Research | American Journal of Human Genetics | 2002 | 60 |
| 37 | What is in a cause? Exploring the relationship between genetic cause and felt stigma | Genetics in Medicine | 2006 | 59 |
| 38 | Genetic Privacy | Annual Review of Medicine | 2003 | 56 |
| 39 | Incentive Models to Increase Living Kidney Donation: Encouraging Without Coercing | American Journal of Transplantation | 2005 | 55 |
| 40 | Ethical Considerations in End-of-Life Care and Research | Journal of Palliative Medicine | 2005 | 54 |
| 41 | Cost implications of new treatments for advanced colorectal cancer | Cancer | 2009 | 54 |
| 42 | Disease Gene Patents: Overcoming Unethical Constraints on Clinical Laboratory Medicine | Clinical Chemistry | 1999 | 51 |
| 43 | The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis: a pluralogue part 1: conceptual and definitional issues in psychiatric diagnosis | Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine | 2012 | 50 |
| 44 | Mixed Messages: Presentation of Information in Cystic Fibrosis–Screening Pamphlets | American Journal of Human Genetics | 1998 | 48 |
| 45 | Successes and Failures of Hospital Ethics Committees: A National Survey of Ethics Committee Chairs | Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics | 2002 | 48 |
| 46 | How Older Patients' Treatment Preferences Are Influenced by Disclosures About Therapeutic Uncertainty: Surgery Versus Expectant Management for Localized Prostate Cancer | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 1996 | 46 |
| 47 | Does Hospice Have a Role in Nursing Home Care at the End of Life? | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society | 2001 | 45 |
| 48 | Madness versus badness: the ethical tension between the recovery movement and forensic psychiatry | Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics | 2010 | 45 |
| 49 | Death as an unnatural process | EMBO Reports | 2005 | 43 |
| 50 | Addressing the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Raised by Voting by Persons With Dementia | JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association | 2004 | 42 |
