Simon Coghlan

2.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
53 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Simon Coghlan is a scholar working on Safety Research, Social Psychology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Coghlan has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Safety Research, 10 papers in Social Psychology and 10 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Simon Coghlan's work include Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (12 papers), Human-Animal Interaction Studies (8 papers) and Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education (7 papers). Simon Coghlan is often cited by papers focused on Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (12 papers), Human-Animal Interaction Studies (8 papers) and Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education (7 papers). Simon Coghlan collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Netherlands. Simon Coghlan's co-authors include Sonia Allan, Paul Cooper, Sandeep Reddy, Thomas P. Quinn, Tim Miller, Jeannie Paterson, Jenny Waycott, Vuong Le, Manisha Senadeera and Simon D’Alfonso and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Conservation Biology.

In The Last Decade

Simon Coghlan

48 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

A governance model for the application of AI in health care

2019 448 citations Simon Coghlan et al. profile →
To chat or bot to chat: Ethical issues with using chatbots in mental health

2023 84 citations Simon Coghlan, Marc Cheong et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon Coghlan Australia	15	428	299	187	159	139	53	1.2k
Christopher Burr United Kingdom	13	357 0.8×	215 0.7×	269 1.4×	136 0.9×	98 0.7×	28	1.0k
Amelia Fiske Germany	16	241 0.6×	199 0.7×	153 0.8×	184 1.2×	159 1.1×	47	1.2k
Karin Jongsma Netherlands	20	309 0.7×	189 0.6×	140 0.7×	366 2.3×	39 0.3×	83	1.3k
Indra Joshi United Kingdom	10	361 0.8×	194 0.6×	125 0.7×	190 1.2×	21 0.2×	12	1.0k
Eva Lermer Germany	17	205 0.5×	176 0.6×	63 0.3×	45 0.3×	206 1.5×	61	984
Federica Lucivero United Kingdom	17	143 0.3×	101 0.3×	125 0.7×	244 1.5×	42 0.3×	50	1.1k
Chris Stokel-Walker United Kingdom	10	945 2.2×	555 1.9×	201 1.1×	116 0.7×	20 0.1×	80	1.7k
Matthias Braun Germany	16	219 0.5×	143 0.5×	171 0.9×	177 1.1×	26 0.2×	91	1.2k
Thomas Ploug Denmark	16	173 0.4×	115 0.4×	101 0.5×	310 1.9×	26 0.2×	43	762

Countries citing papers authored by Simon Coghlan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Coghlan

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Coghlan, Simon, Christine Parker, & Reeva Lederman. (2026). AI Ethics Guidelines: Time to Include Animals. Science and Engineering Ethics. 32(1). 10–10. 1 indexed citations

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Coghlan, Simon, et al.. (2026). Beyond ‘Basic’ AI-Animal Alignment. Philosophy & Technology. 39(1).

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Coghlan, Simon, et al.. (2025). Control search rankings, control the world: what is a good search engine?. AI and Ethics. 5(4). 4117–4133.

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Clayton, Philip A., et al.. (2025). Confronting the Ethical Issues with Artificial Intelligence Use in Nephrology. Kidney360. 7(1). 192–198.

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Lynn, William S., Liv Baker, William T. Borrie, et al.. (2025). Compassionate conservation in practice: A values-driven, interdisciplinary, pluralistic, and deliberative community. Biological Conservation. 303. 111002–111002. 1 indexed citations

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Coghlan, Simon & Christine Parker. (2024). Helping and not Harming Animals with AI. Philosophy & Technology. 37(1). 4 indexed citations

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Banzato, Tommaso, et al.. (2024). Artificial intelligence in veterinary diagnostic imaging: Perspectives and limitations. Research in Veterinary Science. 175. 105317–105317. 13 indexed citations

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Zachreson, Cameron, Julian Savulescu, Freya M. Shearer, et al.. (2024). Ethical frameworks should be applied to computational modelling of infectious disease interventions. PLoS Computational Biology. 20(3). e1011933–e1011933. 3 indexed citations

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Coghlan, Simon & Christine Parker. (2023). Harm to Nonhuman Animals from AI: a Systematic Account and Framework. Philosophy & Technology. 36(2). 30 indexed citations

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Coghlan, Simon, Christopher Gyngell, & Danya F. Vears. (2023). Ethics of artificial intelligence in prenatal and pediatric genomic medicine. Journal of Community Genetics. 15(1). 13–24. 10 indexed citations

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Coghlan, Simon & Thomas P. Quinn. (2023). Ethics of using artificial intelligence (AI) in veterinary medicine. AI & Society. 39(5). 2337–2348. 16 indexed citations

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Coghlan, Simon, et al.. (2023). Ethical Design of Social Robots in Aged Care: A Literature Review Using an Ethics of Care Perspective. International Journal of Social Robotics. 15(9-10). 1637–1654. 14 indexed citations

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Coghlan, Simon. (2023). An irreducible understanding of animal dignity. Journal of Social Philosophy. 55(1). 124–142. 6 indexed citations

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Coghlan, Simon, et al.. (2022). Respecting living kidney donor autonomy: an argument for liberalising living kidney donor acceptance criteria. Bioethics News. 41(2). 156–173. 2 indexed citations

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Lindenmayer, Joann M., Gretchen E. Kaufman, Liv Baker, et al.. (2022). One health ethics: “What then must we do?”. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7 indexed citations

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Coghlan, Simon. (2021). Robots and the Possibility of Humanistic Care. International Journal of Social Robotics. 14(10). 2095–2108. 26 indexed citations

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Coghlan, Simon, Sarah Webber, & Marcus Carter. (2021). Improving ethical attitudes to animals with digital technologies: the case of apes and zoos. Ethics and Information Technology. 23(4). 825–839. 5 indexed citations

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Cheong, Marc, et al.. (2021). Computer Science Communities. 106–115. 10 indexed citations

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Lederman, Reeva, Simon D’Alfonso, Simon Rice, et al.. (2020). ETHICAL ISSUES IN ONLINE MENTAL HEALTH INTERVENTIONS. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 1 indexed citations

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Gwee, Amanda, et al.. (2020). Paediatric treatment trials for COVID-19 are an ethical imperative. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 106(2). e4–e4. 3 indexed citations

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