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Overview

Jon F. Merz is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focused on medicine, physics and astronomy, and health professions. Subfields of study include public health, environmental and occupational health, nuclear and high energy physics, general health professions, economics and econometrics, and health.

The scientist's main topics of work encompass ethics in clinical research, dark matter and cosmic phenomena, healthcare cost, quality, and practices, health systems, economic evaluations and quality of life, ethics in medical practice, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, and artificial intelligence in healthcare and education.

Jon F. Merz has contributed to several recent papers, notable examples include:

  • "First Indication of Solar B8 Neutrinos via Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering with XENONnT" (2024) published in Physical Review Letters
  • "High-Impact RCTs without Prospective Informed Consent: A Systematic Review" (2020) published in Journal of Investigative Medicine
  • "Refusal rates and waivers of informed consent in pragmatic and comparative effectiveness RCTs: A systematic review" (2021) published in Contemporary Clinical Trials
  • "The History and Policy Evolution of Waivers of Informed Consent in Research" (2021) published in Journal of Legal Medicine
  • "First Search for Light Dark Matter in the Neutrino Fog with XENONnT" (2025) published in Physical Review Letters

Frequent coauthors collaborating with this researcher include I. Li, J. Aalbers, S. Ahmed Maouloud, L. Althueser, and B. Andrieu.

Their work is often published in venues such as Physical Review Letters, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), BMC Medical Ethics, Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, and Ethics & Human Research.

Best Publications

  • All Gifts Large and Small

    Dana Katz;Arthur L. Caplan;Jon F. Merz

  • All Gifts Large and Small: Toward an Understanding of the Ethics of Pharmaceutical Industry Gift-Giving

    Dana Katz;Arthur L. Caplan;Jon F. Merz

  • Informed Consent for Population-Based Research Involving Genetics

    Laura M. Beskow;Wylie Burke;Jon F. Merz;Patricia A. Barr

  • Effects of Patents and Licenses on the Provision of Clinical Genetic Testing Services

    Mildred K. Cho;Samantha Illangasekare;Meredith A. Weaver;Debra G.B. Leonard

  • Response burden, reliability, and validity of the CAGE, Short MAST, and AUDIT alcohol screening measures

    Ron D. Hays;Jon F. Merz;Ronald Nicholas

  • Patient perspectives of medical confidentiality: a review of the literature.

    Pamela Sankar;Susan Mora;Jon F Merz;Nora L Jones

  • Diagnostic testing fails the test

    Jon F. Merz;Antigone G. Kriss;Debra G. B. Leonard;Mildred K. Cho

  • Voluntariness of consent for research: an empirical and conceptual review.

    Robert M. Nelson;Jon F. Merz

  • Protecting Subjects’ Interests in Genetics Research

    Jon F. Merz;David Magnus;Mildred K. Cho;Arthur L. Caplan

  • Religiosity in a hemodialysis population and its relationship to satisfaction with medical care, satisfaction with life, and adherence

    Elisheva Berman;Jon F. Merz;Michael Rudnick;Richard W. Snyder

  • Forbidden Knowledge: Public Controversy and the Production of Nonknowledge1

    Joanna Kempner;Jon F. Merz;Charles L. Bosk

  • Empirical developments in retraction

    Barbara K. Redman;H. N. Yarandi;J. F. Merz

  • Improving informed consent: the medium is not the message.

    Patricia Agre;Frances A. Campbell;Barbara D. Goldman;Maria L. Boccia

  • Verbal Expressions of Probability in Informed Consent Litigation

    Jon F. Merz;Marek J. Druzdzel;Dennis J. Mazur

  • Informed consent does not mean rational consent. Cognitive limitations on decision-making.

    Jon F. Merz;Baruch Fischhoff

  • How the Manner of Presentation of Data Influences Older Patients in Determining Their Treatment Preferences

    Dennis J. Mazur;Jon F. Merz

  • Review of abortion policy: legality, medicaid funding, and parental involvement, 1967-1994.

    Jon Merz;Catherine A. Jackson;Jacob Alex Klerman

  • Caregivers’ preferences for the treatment of patients with Alzheimer’s disease

    J.H. T. Karlawish;J.L. Klocinski;J. Merz;C.M. Clark

  • Trends in Patent Litigation: The Apparent Influence of Strengthened Patents Attributable to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

    Jon Merz;Nicholas M. Pace

  • Ethical issues in identifying and recruiting participants for familial genetic research.

    Laura M. Beskow;Jeffrey R. Botkin;Mary Daly;Eric T. Juengst

Frequent Co-Authors

Mildred K. Cho
Mildred K. Cho Stanford University
Arthur L. Caplan
Arthur L. Caplan New York University
Timothy Caulfield
Timothy Caulfield University of Alberta
Anne De Paepe
Anne De Paepe Ghent University Hospital
Bartha Maria Knoppers
Bartha Maria Knoppers McGill University Health Centre
Raoul C.M. Hennekam
Raoul C.M. Hennekam University of Amsterdam
Alan H. Bittles
Alan H. Bittles Edith Cowan University
George Loewenstein
George Loewenstein Carnegie Mellon University
Baruch Fischhoff
Baruch Fischhoff Carnegie Mellon University
Alice K. Jacobs
Alice K. Jacobs Boston University

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