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Guido Pennings

Guido Pennings

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
51
Citations
10200
World Ranking
2591
National Ranking
25

Overview

Guido Pennings is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and focuses scholarly work primarily in the fields of Medicine and Social Sciences. The subfields of study in which they have contributed include Reproductive Medicine, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Gender Studies, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics covered in Guido Pennings' research involve Reproductive Health and Technologies, Assisted Reproductive Technology and Twin Pregnancy, Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences, Reproductive Biology and Fertility, Organ Donation and Transplantation, Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare, and Family Dynamics and Relationships.

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Guido Pennings are:

  • Expanded carrier screening should not be mandatory for gamete donors, 2020, Human Reproduction
  • Fertility preservation in boys: recent developments and new insights, 2020, Human Reproduction Open
  • Declining global fertility rates and the implications for family planning and family building: an IFFS consensus document based on a narrative review of the literature, 2023, Human Reproduction Update
  • The other face of advanced paternal age: a scoping review of its terminological, social, public health, psychological, ethical and regulatory aspects, 2020, Human Reproduction Update
  • The ethics of ectogenesis-aided foetal treatment, 2020, Bioethics

Guido Pennings frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Veerle Provoost, Heidi Mertes, Anne-Bine Skytte, Allan Pacey, and Seppe Segers. The highest number of collaborations is with Veerle Provoost and Heidi Mertes.

The scientist's work has appeared predominantly in the following publication venues:

  • Human Reproduction
  • Reproductive BioMedicine Online
  • Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics
  • Fertility and Sterility
  • Human Reproduction Open

Best Publications

  • Cross border reproductive care in six European countries

    F. Shenfield;J. de Mouzon;G. Pennings;A. Nyboe Andersen

  • Reproductive wish in transsexual men

    Katrien Wierckx;Eva Van Caenegem;Guido Pennings;Els Elaut

  • A European perspective on testicular tissue cryopreservation for fertility preservation in prepubertal and adolescent boys

    Helen M. Picton;Christine Wyns;Christine Wyns;Richard A. Anderson;Ellen Goossens

  • Reproductive tourism as moral pluralism in motion

    Guido Pennings

  • Forty years of IVF

    Craig S. Niederberger;Antonio Pellicer;Jacques Cohen;David K. Gardner

  • Legal Harmonization and Reproductive Tourism in Europe

    Guido Pennings

  • Oocyte cryopreservation for age-related fertility loss

    W. Dondorp;G. de Wert;G. Pennings;F. Shenfield

  • ESHRE Task Force on Ethics and Law 23: medically assisted reproduction in singles, lesbian and gay couples, and transsexual people

    G. De Wert;W. Dondorp;F. Shenfield;P. Barri

  • ESHRE task force on ethics and law 15: cross-border reproductive care.

    Guido Pennings;G. de Wert;F. Shenfield;J. Cohen

  • Fertility preservation in boys: recent developments and new insights †

    E Goossens;K Jahnukainen;K Jahnukainen;RT Mitchell;Amm van Pelt

  • Ethical considerations on preimplantation genetic diagnosis for HLA typing to match a future child as a donor of haematopoietic stem cells to a sibling

    Guido Pennings;Rik Schots;Ingeborg Liebaers

  • Reply: Reproductive exile versus reproductive tourism

    Guido Pennings

  • Social egg freezing: for better, not for worse

    Heidi Mertes;Guido Pennings

  • Cross-border reproductive care: a phenomenon expressing the controversial aspects of reproductive technologies.

    Anna Pia Ferraretti;Guido Pennings;Luca Gianaroli;Francesca Natali

  • Socio-demographic and fertility-related characteristics and motivations of oocyte donors in eleven European countries

    G. Pennings;J. de Mouzon;F. Shenfield;A.P. Ferraretti

  • ESHRE Task Force on Ethics and Law 13: the welfare of the child in medically assisted reproduction

    Guido Pennings;G De Wert;F Shenfield;J Cohen

  • ESHRE Task Force on Ethics and Law 10: surrogacy.

    F Shenfield;Guido Pennings;J Cohen;P Devroey

  • Taskforce 5: preimplantation genetic diagnosis

    F Shenfield;Guido Pennings;P Devroey;C Sureau

  • Lifestyle-related factors and access to medically assisted reproduction

    Eshre Task Force on Ethics;W. Dondorp;G. de Wert

  • Cross-border reproductive care in Belgium

    Guido Pennings;Candice Autin;Wim Decleer;Anne Delbaere

  • Legal harmonisation and reproductive tourism in Europe.

    Guido Pennings

Frequent Co-Authors

Ann Buysse
Ann Buysse Ghent University
Pascal Borry
Pascal Borry KU Leuven
Linda C. Giudice
Linda C. Giudice University of California, San Francisco
Angel Raya
Angel Raya Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats

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