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A model of evaluation of bioethical research in scientific production – demonstration on the example of Croatian bioethical journals

Taking the basic goals of the scientific project “EUROBIOMED” (Croatian Science Foundation, HRZZ IP-2020-02-7450) as a starting point, the research investigates an important segment of bioethical production by Mediterranean authors. In this presentation we develop a possible methodological framework for metascientific analysis of bioethical research and explore the possibilities limitations of such method. We discern basic formal and content conditions for such evaluations, i.e. the needed form of bioethical scientific presentations (form of scientific article) and the necessary content as starting point (what defines an article as “bioethical”). Moreover, we give a theoretical and practical reasons for doing so. 1) First, we argue that such narrowing the corpus is necessary and fruitful on the theroretical level, 2) Second, we demonstrate the methodological fruitfulness of such approach on specific analysis of all thre main Croatian journals officially dedicated to bioethical research which are taken into consideration: Jahr – European Journal of Bioethics, Synthesis philosophica, and Filozofska istraživanja (Philosophical Investigations). Furthermore, we show that there are three possible further ways of content analysis: a) the distribution of authors by countries ; b) the prominent topic(s) taken into consideration ; c) the main methodology applied in those articles. Such analysis is our contribution to finding a way for clarification of what exactly bioethics is and what kind of research it does involve. This could be very significant for the young discipline as bioethics and its stronger establishment as (also) propulsive scientific discipline.

bioethics, models of scientific analysis, methodology, Croatia, journals, content analysis, EUROBIOMED project

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