2026 Robert M. Veatch: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	47	3369	1623	372	10117

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Social Sciences and Humanities

3369

1623

372

10117

Overview

Robert M. Veatch was affiliated with Georgetown University in the United States. Their research primarily focused on medicine, with significant contributions in public health, environmental and occupational health, general health professions, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, and transplantation.

Their scholarly work addressed key topics including ethics in medical practice, ethics and legal issues in pediatric healthcare, patient dignity and privacy, organ donation and transplantation, renal transplantation outcomes and treatments, and pregnancy and medication impact.

Selected recent publications by Robert M. Veatch included:

"Reconciling Lists of Principles in Bioethics," 2020, published in The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine
"Should Institutions Disclose the Names of Employees with Covid-19?," 2020, published in The Hastings Center Report
"Determinants of kidney transplant candidates' decision to accept organ donor intervention transplants and participate in post-transplant research: A conjoint analysis," 2021, published in Clinical Transplantation

Frequent co-authors included:

Daniel P. Sulmasy
Elisa J. Gordon
Peter L. Abt
Jungwha Lee
Elizabeth Knopf

Their publications appeared in venues such as The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine, The Hastings Center Report, and Clinical Transplantation.

Best Publications

A theory of medical ethics

Robert M. Veatch

948
Citations
Death, Dying, and the Biological Revolution; Our Last Quest for Responsibility

Joy K. Ufema;Robert M. Veatch

590
Citations
Models for Ethical Medicine in a Revolutionary Age

Robert M. Veatch

495
Citations
The Basics of Bioethics

Robert M. Veatch

316
Citations
Abandoning informed consent

Robert M. Veatch

311
Citations
The impending collapse of the whole-brain definition of death.

Robert M. Veatch

291
Citations
Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Medical Ethics

Robert M. Veatch

213
Citations
Medically futile care: the role of the physician in setting limits.

Robert M. Veatch;Carol Mason Spicer

212
Citations
The whole-brain-oriented concept of death: an outmoded philosophical formulation.

Robert M Veatch

208
Citations
Case Studies in Nursing Ethics

Sara T. Fry;Robert M. Veatch

204
Citations
The nondirected live-kidney donor: Ethical considerations and practice guidelines. A national conference report

Patricia L. Adams;David J. Cohen;Gabriel M. Danovitch;Reverend Mark D. Edington

183
Citations
The Care of the Terminally Ill: Morality and Economics

Ronald Bayer;Daniel Callahan;John Fletcher;Thomas Hodgson

175
Citations
Death, dying, and the biological revolution

Robert Veatch

161
Citations
Ethics, trust, and the professions : philosophical and cultural aspects

Edmund D. Pellegrino;Robert M. Veatch;John Langan

152
Citations
The Foundations of Justice: Why the Retarded and the Rest of Us Have Claims to Equality

Robert M. Veatch

149
Citations
Donating hearts after cardiac death--reversing the irreversible.

Robert M Veatch

135
Citations
Generalization of expertise.

Robert M. Veatch

116
Citations
Case Studies in Medical Ethics

Stanley Bernstein;Robert M. Veatch

112
Citations
The death of whole-brain death: the plague of the disaggregators, somaticists, and mentalists.

Robert M Veatch

109
Citations
The impossibility of a morality internal to medicine.

Robert M. Veatch

102
Citations
The Ethics of Consent: Theory and Practice

Robert M. Veatch

87
Citations
Disrupted Dialogue: Medical Ethics and the Collapse of Physician-Humanist Communication (1770-1980)

Robert M. Veatch

32
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Callahan Hastings Center

Arthur L. Caplan New York University

Peter A. Ubel Duke University

Ronald Bayer Columbia University

Dan W. Brock Harvard University

Edmund D. Pellegrino Georgetown University

Charles W. Lidz University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

Tom L. Beauchamp Georgetown University

Peter A. Singer National University of Singapore

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