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Effy Vayena

Effy Vayena

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
54
Citations
18528
World Ranking
2099
National Ranking
15

Effy Vayena publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Effy Vayena sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 180 publications — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Effy Vayena D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Effy Vayena sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Effy Vayena is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and works primarily in the field of Medicine. Their research encompasses several subfields including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, Artificial Intelligence, Health Informatics, and Information Systems.

The main topics of Effy Vayena's work include:

  • Ethics in Clinical Research
  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing
  • Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
  • Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications

They have frequently co-authored with the following researchers:

  • Alessandro Blasimme
  • Marcello Ienca
  • Kelly E. Ormond
  • James Scheibner
  • Agata Ferretti

Effy Vayena's recent publications include:

  • "Explainability for artificial intelligence in healthcare: a multidisciplinary perspective", 2020, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
  • "On the responsible use of digital data to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic", 2020, Nature Medicine
  • "Digital tools against COVID-19: taxonomy, ethical challenges, and navigation aid", 2020, The Lancet Digital Health
  • "What's next for COVID-19 apps? Governance and oversight", 2020, Science
  • "The Challenges for Regulating Medical Use of ChatGPT and Other Large Language Models", 2023, JAMA

They commonly publish in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature Medicine
  • PLOS Digital Health
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • The global landscape of AI ethics guidelines

    Anna Jobin;Marcello Ienca;Effy Vayena

  • AI4People—An Ethical Framework for a Good AI Society: Opportunities, Risks, Principles, and Recommendations

    Luciano Floridi;Luciano Floridi;Josh Cowls;Josh Cowls;Monica Beltrametti;Raja Chatila

  • Explainability for artificial intelligence in healthcare: a multidisciplinary perspective.

    Julia Amann;Alessandro Blasimme;Effy Vayena;Dietmar Frey

  • Machine learning in medicine: Addressing ethical challenges.

    Effy Vayena;Alessandro Blasimme;I. Glenn Cohen

  • Artificial Intelligence: the global landscape of ethics guidelines.

    Anna Jobin;Marcello Ienca;Effy Vayena

  • On the responsible use of digital data to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Marcello Ienca;Effy Vayena

  • Ethical challenges of big data in public health.

    Effy Vayena;Marcel Salathé;Lawrence C. Madoff;John S. Brownstein

  • Current Practices and Controversies in Assisted Reproduction

    Effy Vayena;Patrick J. Rowe;P. David Griffin

  • Digital tools against COVID-19: taxonomy, ethical challenges, and navigation aid

    Urs Gasser;Marcello Ienca;James Scheibner;Joanna Sleigh

  • Current practices and controversies in assisted reproduction : report of a meeting on "Medical, Ethical and Social Aspects of Assisted Reproduction" held at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, 17-21 September 2001

    Effy Vayena

  • Considerations for ethics review of big data health research: A scoping review

    Marcello Ienca;Agata Ferretti;Samia Hurst;Milo Puhan

  • Digital health: meeting the ethical and policy challenges

    Effy Vayena;Tobias Haeusermann;Afua Adjekum;Alessandro Blasimme

  • Use of modern contraception by the poor is falling behind.

    Emmanuela Gakidou;Effy Vayena

  • Elements of Trust in Digital Health Systems: Scoping Review

    Afua Adjekum;Alessandro Blasimme;Effy Vayena

  • Shaping Parents: Impact of Contrasting Professional Counseling on Parents' Decision Making for Children with Disorders of Sex Development

    Jürg C. Streuli;Effy Vayena;Yvonne Cavicchia‐Balmer;Johannes Huber;Johannes Huber

  • Health Research with Big Data: Time for Systemic Oversight:

    Effy Vayena;Alessandro Blasimme

  • What's next for COVID-19 apps? Governance and oversight.

    Alessandro Blasimme;Effy Vayena

  • Policy implications of big data in the health sector.

    Effy Vayena;Joan Dzenowagis;John S Brownstein;Aziz Sheikh

  • Adapting Standards: Ethical Oversight of Participant-Led Health Research

    Effy Vayena;John Tasioulas

  • Early evidence of effectiveness of digital contact tracing for SARS-CoV-2 in Switzerland

    Marcel Salathé;Christian L Althaus;Nanina Anderegg;Daniele Antonioli

  • Biomedical Big Data: New Models of Control Over Access, Use and Governance.

    Effy Vayena;Alessandro Blasimme

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara Prainsack
Barbara Prainsack University of Vienna
George P. Patrinos
George P. Patrinos University of Patras
Jacques Fellay
Jacques Fellay École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Marcel Salathé
Marcel Salathé École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Luciano Floridi
Luciano Floridi University of Oxford
Ron H.N. van Schaik
Ron H.N. van Schaik Erasmus University Rotterdam
David Neil Cooper
David Neil Cooper Cardiff University
Milan Macek
Milan Macek Charles University
Fahd Al-Mulla
Fahd Al-Mulla Kuwait University
Paolo Fortina
Paolo Fortina Thomas Jefferson University

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