Robert Ranisch

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 446 citations indexed

About

Robert Ranisch is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, General Health Professions and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Ranisch has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 446 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 9 papers in General Health Professions and 8 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Robert Ranisch's work include Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations (10 papers), Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education (7 papers) and Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (6 papers). Robert Ranisch is often cited by papers focused on Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations (10 papers), Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education (7 papers) and Biomedical Ethics and Regulation (6 papers). Robert Ranisch collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Singapore. Robert Ranisch's co-authors include Joschka Haltaufderheide, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, Mara Almeida, Hans‐Jörg Ehni, Urban Wiesing, Regina Müller, Veljko Dubljević, Alena Buyx, Tanja Fehm and Christine Preiser and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Medical Systems, npj Digital Medicine and Ethics and Information Technology.

In The Last Decade

Robert Ranisch

33 papers receiving 431 citations

Hit Papers

The ethics of ChatGPT in medicine and healthcare: a syste... 2024 2026 2025 2024 25 50 75 100
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The ethics of ChatGPT in medicine and healthcare: a systematic review on Large Language Models (LLMs)
    2024 119 citations Joschka Haltaufderheide, Robert Ranisch profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Robert Ranisch Germany 11 122 93 72 64 56 37 446
Nicole Martinez‐Martin United States 12 105 0.9× 60 0.6× 16 0.2× 53 0.8× 102 1.8× 23 630
Ran Ren China 13 98 0.8× 41 0.4× 32 0.4× 61 1.0× 159 2.8× 55 717
Jon Rueda Spain 9 56 0.5× 33 0.4× 28 0.4× 67 1.0× 30 0.5× 38 282
Boris Babic United States 7 229 1.9× 133 1.4× 15 0.2× 30 0.5× 34 0.6× 16 464
Jean‐Christophe Bélisle‐Pipon Canada 13 131 1.1× 79 0.8× 15 0.2× 24 0.4× 130 2.3× 50 512
Mohammed Ghaly Qatar 13 39 0.3× 94 1.0× 21 0.3× 34 0.5× 65 1.2× 53 582
Giovanni Rubeis Germany 10 63 0.5× 38 0.4× 28 0.4× 28 0.4× 69 1.2× 41 361
Caio C. Vieira Machado United Kingdom 6 317 2.6× 145 1.6× 17 0.2× 33 0.5× 46 0.8× 9 595
Sonia Allan Australia 9 265 2.2× 122 1.3× 21 0.3× 14 0.2× 52 0.9× 29 598
Benjamin Chaix France 8 103 0.8× 129 1.4× 78 1.1× 12 0.2× 168 3.0× 12 501

Countries citing papers authored by Robert Ranisch

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Fields of papers citing papers by Robert Ranisch

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Ranisch

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All Works

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Ranisch, Robert, et al.. (2026). Ethical aspects of the use of social robots in caring for older people – a systematic qualitative review. Medicine Health Care and Philosophy. 29(1). 209–224.
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Rueda, Jon, Mark Coeckelbergh, Francisco J. Lara, et al.. (2025). Why dignity is a troubling concept for AI ethics. Patterns. 6(3). 101207–101207.
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Ranisch, Robert & Joschka Haltaufderheide. (2024). Ethik in der datenintensiven medizinischen Forschung. Ethik in der Medizin. 36(4). 451–458. 1 indexed citations
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Müller, Regina, et al.. (2024). Non-empirical methods for ethics research on digital technologies in medicine, health care and public health: a systematic journal review. Medicine Health Care and Philosophy. 27(4). 513–528. 1 indexed citations
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Preiser, Christine, et al.. (2024). The Doctors, Their Patients, and the Symptom Checker App: Qualitative Interview Study With General Practitioners in Germany. JMIR Human Factors. 11. e57360–e57360. 2 indexed citations
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Ranisch, Robert, et al.. (2023). Ethical Issues in Cerebral Organoid Research. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. 32(4). 515–517. 3 indexed citations
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Krüssel, Jan-Steffen, et al.. (2023). Artificial Intelligence in Reproductive Medicine – An Ethical Perspective. Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde. 83(1). 106–115. 28 indexed citations
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Müller, Regina, et al.. (2022). Ethical, legal, and social aspects of symptom checker applications: a scoping review. Medicine Health Care and Philosophy. 25(4). 737–755. 15 indexed citations
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Preiser, Christine, Regina Müller, Robert Ranisch, et al.. (2022). Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Symptom Checker Apps in Primary Health Care (CHECK.APP): Protocol for an Interdisciplinary Mixed Methods Study. JMIR Research Protocols. 11(5). e34026–e34026. 10 indexed citations
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Ranisch, Robert, et al.. (2022). Initial heritable genome editing: mapping a responsible pathway from basic research to the clinic. Medicine Health Care and Philosophy. 26(1). 21–35. 7 indexed citations
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Dubljević, Veljko, et al.. (2021). The Socio-Political Roles of Neuroethics and the Case of Klotho. AJOB Neuroscience. 13(1). 10–22. 11 indexed citations
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Ranisch, Robert, et al.. (2020). Ordo-Responsibility for Germline Gene Editing. The CRISPR Journal. 3(1). 37–43. 2 indexed citations
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Ranisch, Robert, Niels Nijsingh, Angela Ballantyne, et al.. (2020). Digital contact tracing and exposure notification: ethical guidance for trustworthy pandemic management. Ethics and Information Technology. 23(3). 285–294. 36 indexed citations
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Ranisch, Robert, et al.. (2015). Selbstgestaltung des Menschen durch Biotechniken. 2 indexed citations
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Ranisch, Robert & Stefan Lorenz Sorgner. (2015). Post- and Transhumanism. Peter Lang D eBooks. 27 indexed citations
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Sorgner, Stefan Lorenz, et al.. (2008). Wagner und Nietzsche : Kultur-Werk-Wirkung : ein Handbuch. 2 indexed citations

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