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2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
89
Citations
28433
World Ranking
209
National Ranking
35

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2019 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science

Overview

Julian Savulescu is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and works primarily in the field of Medicine, with significant research contributions totalling 302 publications. Their work spans several subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Clinical Psychology.

The researcher's work focuses on several main topics such as Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations, Ethics in medical practice, and Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare. Additional focal areas include Ethics in Clinical Research, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education, Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy, and the Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment.

Julian Savulescu has published extensively in numerous academic journals. The frequent publication venues where their work appears include:

  • Journal of Medical Ethics
  • The American Journal of Bioethics
  • Bioethics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Asian Bioethics Review

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Savulescu include:

  • "Utilitarianism and the pandemic" (2020) published in Bioethics
  • "Good reasons to vaccinate: mandatory or payment for risk?" (2020) published in Journal of Medical Ethics
  • "Ethical and regulatory challenges of large language models in medicine" (2024) published in The Lancet Digital Health
  • "The scientific and ethical feasibility of immunity passports" (2020) published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • "COVID-19 vaccine: vaccinate the young to protect the old?" (2020) published in Journal of Law and the Biosciences

They have collaborated frequently with co-authors such as Brian D. Earp, Dominic Wilkinson, Sebastian Porsdam Mann, Christopher Gyngell, and Alberto Giubilini, with collaboration counts ranging from over 20 to more than 60 joint works.

In addition to articles, Julian Savulescu has contributed to book literature, having published at least one book titled Love is the Drug in 2020 through Winchester University Press.

Recognition of their contributions includes being named a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Procreative beneficence: why we should select the best children.

    Julian Savulescu

  • The Moral Obligation to Create Children with the Best Chance of the Best Life

    Julian Savulescu;Guy Kahane

  • Increasing value and reducing waste in biomedical research regulation and management

    Rustam Al-Shahi Salman;Elaine Beller;Jonathan Kagan;Elina Hemminki

  • Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement

    Ingmar Persson;Julian Savulescu

  • The perils of cognitive enhancement and the urgent imperative to enhance the moral character of humanity

    Ingmar Persson;Julian Savulescu

  • Why we should allow performance enhancing drugs in sport

    Julian Savulescu;Bennett Foddy;Megan Clayton

  • Arthroscopic subacromial decompression for subacromial shoulder pain (CSAW): a multicentre, pragmatic, parallel group, placebo-controlled, three-group, randomised surgical trial

    David J Beard;Jonathan L Rees;Jonathan A Cook;Ines Rombach

  • ‘Utilitarian’ judgments in sacrificial moral dilemmas do not reflect impartial concern for the greater good

    Guy Kahane;Jim A.C. Everett;Brian D. Earp;Miguel Farias

  • Beyond sacrificial harm: A two-dimensional model of utilitarian psychology.

    Guy Kahane;Jim A. C. Everett;Brian D. Earp;Lucius Caviola

  • Enhancing human capacities

    Julian Savulescu;Ruud ter Meulen;Guy Kahane

  • The Oxford Principles

    Steve Rayner;Clare Heyward;Tim Kruger;Nicholas Frank Pidgeon

  • Are research ethics committees behaving unethically? Some suggestions for improving performance and accountability

    Julian Savulescu;Iain Chalmers;Jennifer Blunt

  • Deaf lesbians, “designer disability,” and the future of medicine

    Julian Savulescu

  • The neuroethics of non-invasive brain stimulation

    Roi Cohen Kadosh;Neil Levy;Neil Levy;Jacinta O'Shea;Nicholas Shea

  • Justice, fairness, and enhancement.

    Julian Savulescu

  • Genetic interventions and the ethics of enhancement of human beings

    Julian Savulescu

  • Utilitarianism and the pandemic.

    Julian Savulescu;Ingmar Persson;Ingmar Persson;Dominic Wilkinson;Dominic Wilkinson

  • The neural basis of intuitive and counterintuitive moral judgment.

    Guy Kahane;Katja Wiech;Nicholas Shackel;Miguel Farias

  • Well-Being and Enhancement

    Julian Savulescu;Anders Sandberg;Guy Kahane

  • Moral Enhancement, Freedom, and the God Machine

    Julian Savulescu;Ingmar Persson

  • Beyond Sacrificial Harm: A Two-Dimensional Model of Utilitarian Psychology (vol 125, pg 131, 2018)

    G Kahane;Everett Jac.;B D Earp;L Caviola

Frequent Co-Authors

Neil Levy
Neil Levy Macquarie University
Tony Hope
Tony Hope University of Oxford
Molly J. Crockett
Molly J. Crockett Yale University
Miles Hewstone
Miles Hewstone University of Oxford
John Harris
John Harris Newcastle University
Irene Tracey
Irene Tracey University of Oxford
Iain Chalmers
Iain Chalmers University of Oxford
Angela R. McLean
Angela R. McLean University of Oxford
Roi Cohen Kadosh
Roi Cohen Kadosh University of Surrey

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