Ethics in medical practice

Ethics in medical practice is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 46k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the concept of moral distress in healthcare professionals, particularly focusing on nurses and physicians in intensive care units. It delves into the ethical climate, nurse-physician collaboration, burnout, autonomy, and the role of ethics consultation in addressing moral distress. The papers also discuss the impact of moral distress on job satisfaction, turnover intentions, and professional quality of life.

Moral Distress
Ethical Climate
Nurse-Physician Collaboration
Intensive Care Units
Ethics Consultation
Burnout
Autonomy
Healthcare Ethics
Professionalism Dilemmas
Empirical Ethics

Research works: 46k
In the world top 10%: 4.7k
Top-10% rate: 10.1%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: -2%
Largest producer: United States

Ethics in medical practice

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Ethics in medical practice research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.8k and 484 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 United States 1.8k works
2 United Kingdom 484 works
3 Brazil 362 works
4 Germany 325 works
5 Canada 316 works
6 China 238 works
7 Iran 216 works
8 India 216 works
9 Türkiye 195 works
10 Australia 195 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.

United States1,796 · 41.4%United Kingdom484 · 11.1%Brazil362 · 8.3%Germany325 · 7.5%6 others listed1,376 · 31.7%

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

Which institutions lead Ethics in medical practice research?

By volume in 2022-now, Harvard University publishes the most Ethics in medical practice research, followed by University of Toronto and University of Oxford.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Harvard UniversityUnited States 48 works
2 University of TorontoCanada 43 works
3 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 42 works
4 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 27 works
5 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 24 works
6 University of British ColumbiaCanada 22 works
7 Pontifícia Universidade Católica do ParanáBrazil 20 works
8 Indiana UniversityUnited States 19 works
9 University of WashingtonUnited States 19 works
10 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Ethics in medical practice?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Ethics in medical practice include Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Giuseppe Remuzzi and Gordon Henry Guyatt.

1 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
2 Giuseppe Remuzzi Italy 328k citations
3 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
4 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
5 Peter Christian Gøtzsche Denmark 292k citations
6 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
7 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
8 Jean‐Louis Vincent Belgium 262k 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 Ethics in medical practice?

The most cited paper in Ethics in medical practice is "On death and dying." (Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, 1975), with 4,940 citations. Next come "Principles of biomedical ethics" (4,421) and "Suspending Damage: A Letter to Communities" (2,785).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	On death and dying. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross · PubMed	Jun 1975	4,940
2	Principles of biomedical ethics John Horton · Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene	2002	4,421
3	Suspending Damage: A Letter to Communities Eve Tuck · Harvard Educational Review	Sep 2009	2,785
4	The Belmont Report: ethical principles and guidelines for the protection of human subjects of research Sue Eckstein · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapterOpen access	20 Feb 2003	2,712
5	What Makes Clinical Research Ethical? Ezekiel J. Emanuel · JAMA	24 May 2000	2,701

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Where is Ethics in medical practice research done?

The largest centres of Ethics in medical practice research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Tehran (Iran) and Toronto (Canada).

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 LondonUnited Kingdom 106 works
2 New YorkUnited States 83 works
3 TehranIran 65 works
4 TorontoCanada 63 works
5 BostonUnited States 63 works
6 Washington D.C.United States 61 works
7 São PauloBrazil 56 works
8 RomeItaly 50 works
9 MontrealCanada 48 works
10 OxfordUnited Kingdom 48 works

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Where is the best place to study Ethics in medical practice?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Oxford, University of Toronto and University of Oslo score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged

40%

Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share

10%

Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale

30%

Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%

10%

Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad

10%

Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom	69.8	20.2%	5.1×	42	+2.6%
2	University of TorontoCanada	63.9	12.2%	3.6×	43	+9.9%
3	University of OsloNorway	61.2	16.8%	5.0×	19	+23.8%
4	Iranshahr UniversityIran	60.6	24.4%	35.5×	17	+18.8%
5	University of TurkuFinland	59.9	32.0%	4.2×	8	+10.4%
6	Harvard UniversityUnited States	58.7	13.6%	2.5×	48	-13.1%
7	Karolinska InstitutetSweden	57.4	32.2%	2.6×	9	+46.2%
8	Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States	55.9	19.7%	2.9×	27	-1.2%
9	Uppsala UniversitySweden	52.3	30.6%	3.4×	11	-1.9%
10	National University of SingaporeSingapore	52.2	18.5%	2.2×	15	+118.4%
11	The University of MelbourneAustralia	51.6	23.8%	2.3×	15	+1.4%
12	Western UniversityCanada	50.0	23.6%	3.3×	11	+14.9%
13	Esslingen University of Applied SciencesGermany	49.6	15.2%	110.0×	17	+163.3%
14	University of British ColumbiaCanada	49.1	16.5%	3.1×	22	-25.8%
15	Dalhousie UniversityCanada	48.9	21.2%	5.2×	11	+31.3%
16	University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom	48.1	13.1%	3.6×	18	+39.1%
17	Aarhus UniversityDenmark	46.8	15.4%	2.7×	14	+29.3%
18	University of LouisvilleUnited States	46.1	18.6%	6.8×	11	+110.4%
19	Universidade do PortoPortugal	45.0	9.1%	4.2×	16	+173.2%
20	King's College LondonUnited Kingdom	44.7	15.2%	3.0×	15	+4.1%
21	University of BaselSwitzerland	44.1	5.8%	5.9×	13	+20.1%
22	Ghent UniversityBelgium	43.8	10.0%	2.5×	11	+126.1%
23	York UniversityCanada	43.7	25.7%	3.9×	8	+145.9%
24	Duke UniversityUnited States	43.5	9.6%	3.0×	15	+18.9%
25	University of Southern DenmarkDenmark	43.2	10.0%	4.2×	10	+49.3%
26	McGill UniversityCanada	43.1	15.7%	2.8×	16	-31.7%
27	University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom	42.9	16.1%	3.1×	16	-7.2%
28	University of CalgaryCanada	42.9	11.5%	3.2×	13	+6.2%
29	University of UtahUnited States	42.5	17.5%	3.0×	12	+62.5%
30	Tehran University of Medical SciencesIran	42.4	8.5%	5.3×	19	+10.0%
31	University of WashingtonUnited States	41.9	8.9%	2.9×	19	+3.8%
32	The University of SydneyAustralia	41.5	22.1%	2.0×	15	-43.3%
33	Pontifícia Universidade Católica do ParanáBrazil	41.4	2.3%	25.4×	20	+116.7%
34	New York UniversityUnited States	41.3	8.7%	2.6×	18	+13.6%
35	Sapienza University of RomeItaly	41.0	17.7%	2.0×	14	+18.3%
36	Universität GreifswaldGermany	40.8	14.6%	10.8×	9	+62.7%
37	University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States	40.7	8.3%	2.3×	24	-10.7%
38	Université de MontréalCanada	40.4	11.7%	5.0×	17	-12.6%
39	University of California, San FranciscoUnited States	39.7	18.6%	2.9×	12	-23.6%
40	Chinese University of Hong KongChina	39.7	15.5%	1.9×	8	+88.7%
41	University College LondonUnited Kingdom	39.2	22.2%	1.5×	14	-26.2%
42	University of PennsylvaniaUnited States	38.7	12.4%	3.0×	19	-31.4%
43	Shiraz University of Medical SciencesIran	37.1	22.9%	5.2×	8	-13.8%
44	Indiana UniversityUnited States	35.5	8.2%	3.4×	19	-11.5%
45	University of ZurichSwitzerland	34.2	7.7%	3.4×	14	-21.5%
46	University of LiverpoolUnited Kingdom	32.5	13.9%	2.5×	8	+3.6%
47	University of RichmondUnited States	27.8	0.3%	19.1×	9	+352.2%
48	Saint Louis UniversityUnited States	27.5	6.4%	12.4×	12	-19.9%
49	Loyola University ChicagoUnited States	26.2	1.8%	8.8×	10	+10.4%
50	Boston CollegeUnited States	24.2	9.5%	9.2×	8	-29.4%
51	Duquesne UniversityUnited States	19.1	0.3%	34.0×	9	-77.1%
52	Baylor UniversityUnited States	17.5	4.4%	8.3×	9	-32.6%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Ethics in medical practice, country by country

Is Ethics in medical practice research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Ethics in medical practice as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.031% in 2024.

Fractional works of Ethics in medical practice 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.

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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Which countries lead Ethics in medical practice research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Ethics in medical practice research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Ethics in medical practice?

What are the most cited papers in Ethics in medical practice?

Where is Ethics in medical practice research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where is the best place to study Ethics in medical practice?

Is Ethics in medical practice research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Discussion