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Bioethics and Human Rights Issues

Bioethics and Human Rights Issues is a research topic within Information Systems. Science Explorer counts 1.4k research works in it since 1954. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to cyborgs, technology, feminism, bioethics, innovation, gender, society, artificial intelligence, and ethics. It reflects an interdisciplinary approach to studying the impact of technology on human identity, gender roles, social structures, and ethical considerations.

  • Cyborg
  • Technology
  • Feminism
  • Bioethics
  • Innovation
  • Gender
  • Society
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Ethics
  • Interdisciplinarity
Research works
1.4k
fractional, since 1954
In the world top 10%
137
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Spain
21% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Bioethics and Human Rights Issues

Which countries lead Bioethics and Human Rights Issues research?

By volume, Spain and Italy publish the most (56 and 47 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Spain 56 works
  2. 2 Italy 47 works
  3. 3 United States 47 works
  4. 4 Germany 33 works
  5. 5 Brazil 18 works
  6. 6 Mexico 15 works
  7. 7 France 14 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 14 works
  9. 9 Argentina 13 works
  10. 10 China 12 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Spain: 20.9%Italy: 17.7%United States: 17.6%Germany: 12.3%6 others listed: 31.6%21%largest
Spain56 · 20.9%Italy47 · 17.7%United States47 · 17.6%Germany33 · 12.3%6 others listed85 · 31.6%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Bioethics and Human Rights Issues research?

By volume in 2022-now, CHDI Foundation publishes the most Bioethics and Human Rights Issues research, followed by Universidad de Granada and Universidad de Valladolid.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 CHDI FoundationUnited States 6 works
  2. 2 Universidad de GranadaSpain 5 works
  3. 3 Universidad de ValladolidSpain 3 works
  4. 4 University of FlorenceItaly 3 works
  5. 5 Heinrich Heine University DüsseldorfGermany 3 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 3 works
  7. 7 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 3 works
  8. 8 Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain 3 works
  9. 9 Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina 3 works
  10. 10 Istituto Nazionale di Documentazione Innovazione e Ricerca EducativaItaly 3 works

Who are the leading researchers in Bioethics and Human Rights Issues?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Bioethics and Human Rights Issues include Donna Haraway.

  1. 1 Donna Haraway United States 73k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Bioethics and Human Rights Issues?

The most cited paper in Bioethics and Human Rights Issues is "The immune system" (Lindsay B. Nicholson, 2016), with 633 citations. Next come "When We Have Never Been Human, What Is to Be Done?" (335) and "Practice-Based Design of Information Systems: Notes from the Hyperdeveloped World" (215).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The immune system Lindsay B. Nicholson · Essays in Biochemistry Open access 26 Oct 2016 633
2 When We Have Never Been Human, What Is to Be Done? Nicholas Gane · Theory Culture & Society Dec 2006 335
3 Practice-Based Design of Information Systems: Notes from the Hyperdeveloped World Lucy A. Suchman · The Information Society Open access Mar 2002 215
4 Toward a Posthumanist Education Nathan Snaza, Peter Appelbaum, Siân Bayne et al. · Journal of Curriculum Theorizing Open access 5 Dec 2014 153
5 Biomedicine as culture instrumental practices, technoscientific knowledge, and new modes of life Regula Valérie Burri 2007 141
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Where is Bioethics and Human Rights Issues research done?

The largest centres of Bioethics and Human Rights Issues research in 2022-now are Madrid (Spain), Rome (Italy), New York (United States) and Buenos Aires (Argentina).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MadridSpain 11 works
  2. 2 RomeItaly 11 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 10 works
  4. 4 Buenos AiresArgentina 8 works
  5. 5 FlorenceItaly 7 works
  6. 6 BarcelonaSpain 7 works
  7. 7 Mexico CityMexico 6 works
  8. 8 SantiagoChile 5 works
  9. 9 MilanItaly 5 works
  10. 10 GranadaSpain 5 works
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Is Bioethics and Human Rights Issues research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Bioethics and Human Rights Issues.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Bioethics and Human Rights Issues as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0012% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Bioethics and Human Rights Issues over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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