Stefan Eriksson
Adviser at University Board and Chief Officers; Advisers to the Vice-Chancellor
- Mobile phone:
- +46 73 469 76 26
- E-mail:
- stefan.pg.eriksson@uu.se
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences; Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics (CRB)
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 61 98
- Mobile phone:
- +46 73 469 76 26
- E-mail:
- stefan.eriksson@crb.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- BMC, Box 564, Husargatan 3, Uppsala
- Postal address:
- Box 564
751 22 UPPSALA
Short presentation
Stefan Eriksson works with research ethics at Uppsala University. Special interests include how science should be regulated, informed consent and autonomy, as well as research integrity and publication ethics.

Publications
Recent publications
Implementation, barriers, and improvement strategies for CRediT: A scoping review
Part of Accountability in Research, p. 1-22, 2025
Part of Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2024
Part of Learned Publishing, p. 554-563, 2023
- DOI for How do journals publishing palliative and end‐of‐life care research report ethical approval and informed consent?
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YouTube as a source of information on clinical trials for paediatric cancer
Part of Information, Communication and Society, p. 716-729, 2023
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Predatory conferences: a systematic scoping review
Part of BMJ Open, 2022
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All publications
Articles in journal
Implementation, barriers, and improvement strategies for CRediT: A scoping review
Part of Accountability in Research, p. 1-22, 2025
Part of Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2024
Part of Learned Publishing, p. 554-563, 2023
- DOI for How do journals publishing palliative and end‐of‐life care research report ethical approval and informed consent?
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YouTube as a source of information on clinical trials for paediatric cancer
Part of Information, Communication and Society, p. 716-729, 2023
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Predatory conferences: a systematic scoping review
Part of BMJ Open, 2022
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Part of Learned Publishing, p. 516-528, 2022
Individual moral responsibility for antibiotic resistance
Part of Bioethics, p. 3-9, 2022
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An Effort Worth Making: A Qualitative Study of How Swedes Respond to Antibiotic Resistance
Part of Public Health Ethics, p. 1-11, 2021
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Why unethical papers should be retracted
Part of Journal of Medical Ethics, 2021
Predatory nursing journals: A case study of author prevalence and characteristics
Part of Nursing Ethics, p. 823-833, 2021
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Are cancer patients better off if they participate in clinical trials?: A mixed methods study
Part of BMC Cancer, 2020
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Part of Clinical Ethics, p. 29-38, 2020
Part of International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, 2020
- DOI for Preferences regarding antibiotic treatment and the role of antibiotic resistance: a discrete choice experiment
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Reporting the details of consent procedures in clinical trials
Part of Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, p. 150-151, 2020
Low risk pragmatic trials do not always require participants' informed consent
Part of The BMJ, 2019
Should the deceased be listed as authors?
Part of Journal of Medical Ethics, p. 331-338, 2019
Selektiv rapportering av kliniska prövningar
Part of Dagens Medicin, 2019
Part of Learned Publishing, p. 106-112, 2019
Part of Bioethics, p. 310-311, 2019
Part of BMC Public Health, 2018
- DOI for Public awareness and individual responsibility needed for judicious use of antibiotics: a qualitative study of public beliefs and perceptions
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Part of Harvard Public Health Review, p. 1-10, 2018
Quality of online information about phase I clinical cancer trials in Sweden, Denmark and Norway
Part of European Journal of Cancer Care, 2018
Part of Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, p. 475-485, 2018
- DOI for When Nursing Care and Clinical Trials Coincide: A Qualitative Study of the Views of Nordic Oncology and Hematology Nurses on Ethical Work Challenges
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Revise the ICMJE Recommendations regarding authorship responsibility!
Part of Learned Publishing, p. 267-269, 2018
Responsibility for scientific misconduct in collaborative papers
Part of Medicine, Health care and Philosophy, p. 423-430, 2018
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How to counter undeserving authorship
Part of Insights: the UKSG journal, p. 1-6, 2018
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Time to stop talking about ‘predatory journals’
Part of Learned Publishing, p. 181-183, 2018
Uncritical and unbalanced coverage of synthetic biology in the Nordic press
Part of Public Understanding of Science, p. 235-250, 2017
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The false academy: Predatory publishing in science & bioethics
Part of Medicine, Health care and Philosophy, p. 163-170, 2017
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Hantering av oredlighet i forskning: Kan förväntningar på en ny modell uppfyllas?
Part of Förvaltningsrättslig Tidskrift, p. 67-79, 2017
What should we do about predatory publishing?
Part of European Science Editing, p. 80-82, 2017
Part of Bioethics, p. 471-478, 2016
Ethical deliberations about involuntary treatment: interviews with Swedish psychiatrists
Part of BMC Medical Ethics, 2015
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Conceptions of decision-making capacity in psychiatry: interviews with Swedish psychiatrists
Part of BMC Medical Ethics, 2015
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Part of Medicine, Health care and Philosophy, p. 91-101, 2015
Part of Förvaltningsrättslig Tidskrift, p. 371-376, 2015
Forskningsetikens nya huvudfråga – den falska akademin?
Part of Svensk Kirurgi, p. 180-183, 2015
Why participating in (certain) scientific research is a moral duty
Part of Journal of Medical Ethics, p. 325-328, 2014
Making researchers moral: Why trustworthiness requires more than ethics guidelines and review
Part of Research Ethics, p. 29-46, 2014
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Viktigt rättsfall om forskares användning av studentarbeten
Part of Curie, 2014
Paternalism in the Name of Autonomy
Part of Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, p. 710-724, 2013
The ethics of disseminating dual use knowledge
Part of Research Ethics, p. 6-19, 2013
Part of Bioethics, p. 485-492, 2013
Autonomy-based arguments against physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia: A critique
Part of Medicine, Health care and Philosophy, p. 225-230, 2013
Etiska aspekter att tänka på i observationsstudier
Part of Läkartidningen, p. 220-222, 2013
Ethical competence in dual use life science research
Part of Applied Biosafety: Journal of the American Biological Safety Association, p. 120-127, 2012
On the need for improved protections of incapacitated and non-benefitting research subjects
Part of Bioethics, p. 15-21, 2012
Biobank Research and Consent: Authors' reply to Sheehan
Part of The BMJ, 2011
Presumed consent and taking organs from the unwilling
Part of The BMJ, 2011
Biobank research: who benefits from individual consent?
Part of The BMJ, 2011
A precautionary principle for dual use research in the life sciences
Part of Bioethics, p. 1-8, 2011
Does Informed Consent Have an Expiry Date?: A Critical Reappraisal of Informed Consent as a Process
Part of Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, p. 85-92, 2011
The Risks and Benefits of Re-Consent
Part of Science, p. 306-306, 2011
The moral primacy of the human being: A reply to Parker
Part of Journal of Medical Ethics, p. 56-57, 2011
Four Themes in Recent Swedish Bioethics Debates
Part of Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, p. 409-417, 2011
What a strange subject bioethics is
Part of IAB News. The Newsletter of the International Association of Bioethics, p. 8-9, 2010
Ethical Dilemmas and Ethical Competence in the Daily Work of Research Nurses
Part of Health Care Analysis, p. 239-251, 2010
Part of Clinical Ethics, p. 95-102, 2010
You can use my name; you don't have to steal my story: A critique of anonymity in indigenous studies
Part of Developing World Bioethics, p. 104-110, 2010
Hypothetical and factual willingness to participate in biobank research
Part of European Journal of Human Genetics, p. 1261-1264, 2010
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Changing defaults in biobank research could save lives too
Part of European Journal of Epidemiology, p. 65-68, 2010
Part of European Journal of Human Genetics, p. 1544-1549, 2009
Opt-out from biobanks better respects patients' autonomy
Part of BMJ. British Medical Journal, 2008
Part of BMJ. British Medical Journal, 2008
Against the principle that the individual shall have priority over science
Part of Journal of Medical Ethics, p. 54-56, 2008
Taking due care: Moral obligations in dual use research
Part of Bioethics, p. 477-487, 2008
Do Ethical Guidelines Give Guidance?: A critical examination of eight ethics regulations
Part of Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, p. 15-29, 2008
Being, Doing, and Knowing: Developing Ethical Competence in Health Care
Part of Journal of Academic Ethics, p. 207-216, 2007
Concern, pressure and lack of knowledge affect choice of not wanting to know high-risk status
Part of European Journal of Human Genetics, p. 556-562, 2007
Limited Relevance of the Right Not to Know: Reflections on a Screening Study
Part of Accountability in Research, p. 197-209, 2007
Part of Medicine, Health care and Philosophy, p. 389-392, 2006
Ja, vi behöver ett nytt system, men nej, vi behöver inte en nationell särlösning.
Part of Tentakel, 2006
Etik på jobbet: Kommentarer till riktlinje 6
Part of Farmacevtisk Revy, 2006
Part of Farmacevtisk Revy, p. 22-23, 2006
Part of Farmacevtisk Revy, p. 20, 2006
Etik på jobbet: Kommentarer till riktlinje 3
Part of Farmacevtisk Revy, 2006
Potential harms, anonymization, and the right to withdraw consent to biobank research
Part of European Journal of Human Genetics, p. 1071-1076, 2005
Part of Journal of Medical Ethics, p. 674-678, 2005
Part of Farmacevtisk Revy, p. 13, 2005
Etik på jobbet: Kommentarer till riktlinje 1: Stefan Eriksson kommenterar: Fall 1
Part of Farmacevtisk Revy, p. 23-24, 2005
Part of Trames, p. 46-62, 2004
Jesu barmhärtighet går på tvärs mot världens sätt att tänka
Part of Budbäraren, 2003
Måtta med förnyat samtycke när prov används för nytt ändamål
Part of Läkartidningen, p. 4106-4109, 2003
Refining the Distinction between Modern and Postmodern Theologies: The Case of Lindbeck
Part of Studia Theologica, p. 152-163, 2002
Samtal måste föras!: Autonomi i fallet Jehovas vittnen och blodtransfusioner
Part of Läkartidningen, p. 321-322, 2002
Den moraliska fantasin förenar etik och estetik
Part of Svenska Dagbladet, 2002
Webbplats om forskningsetik för forskare, studenter och patienter
Part of Läkartidningen, p. 2730-2731, 2001
Autonomi och religion - Jehovas vittnen och blodtransfusioner
Part of Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift, p. 436-448, 2001
The Resurrection and the Incarnation: Myths, Facts or What?
Part of Studia Theologica, p. 129-144, 2001
Genetisk kunskap gör oss friare än någonsin
Part of Svenska Dagbladet, 2001
Part of Svensk Kyrkotidning, p. 428-433, 2001
Part of Svensk Kyrkotidning, 2001
Part of Framtiden direkt, 2000
Kontroversiellt om forskningsetik
Part of Upsala Nya Tidning, kultursidan 10 maj, 1999
Part of Filosofisk Tidskrift, p. 52-85, 1999
Jesu uppståndelse som filosofiskt problem - svar till Johan Modée
Part of Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, p. 31-33, 1999
Jesu uppståndelse som filosofiskt problem
Part of Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, p. 15-23, 1998
Part of Svensk kyrkotidning, p. 642-643, 1997
Bär bud om en rörelse som söker Gud
Part of Budbäraren, 1996
Medlemskap och kyrkans identitet
Part of Svensk Kyrkotidning, 1996
Linder, det är lättare att granska andras åskådning än sin egen
Part of Budbäraren, p. 13, 1994
Bergstedts kristendom är illa ute
Part of Budbäraren, p. 14, 1994
Articles, review/survey
Moral obligations for synthetic biology research
Part of EUBARnet Review series on policy, ethics and security, 2012
How can the ethics of dementia research be ensured?
Part of Dementia Europe, p. 10-11, 2012
Religionsfilosofer om teodicéproblemet: en kritisk översikt
Part of Språk, Tro & Religion, 2001
Books
Studentlitteratur AB, 2013
Chapters in book
Synthetic Biology in the Press: Media Portrayal in Sweden and Italy
Part of Ambivalences of Creating Life. , p. 141-156, Springer, 2016
Part of Common Goods, p. 7-19, Universitat Jaume I, 2014
Vad kan vi lära av moraliska dilemman?
Part of Tankar Tillägnade Sören Stenlund, p. 183-192, Uppsala University, 2008
Mapping the Debate on Informed Consent
Part of Biobanks as Resources for Health, p. 165-196, Uppsala Universitet, 2003
Autonomi och förståelsens komplexitet
Part of Man får inte tvinga någon, p. 288-299, Nya Doxa, 2001
Part of The Use of Human Biobanks, p. 41-51, Uppsala Universitet, 2001
Fanatism och tvivel: Möjligheten av en kontextuell och kritisk radikalteologi
Part of Vardagskulturens teologi, p. 208-223, Bokförlaget Nya Doxa, 1998
Collections (editor)
Makt och religion i könsskilda världar: religionsfilosofiska perspektiv
Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap, Lund, 2003
Manuscripts (preprints)
Monograph doctoral thesis
Reports
2011
Other
Part of American Journal of Bioethics, p. 65-67, 2003
Recension av D.Z. Phillips, Filosofi – en presentation
Part of Filosofisk Tidskrift, p. 53-56, 2002
CODEX - Regler och riktlinjer för forskning: [http://www.codex.vr.se]
2000
Recension: Tillit, verklighet och värde av Tage Kurtén
Part of Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, p. 189-191, 1996
Recension: The Limits of Experience; av Lars Hertzberg
Part of Finsk Tidskrift, p. 375-379, 1996
Recension av M Westphal: Suspicion & Faith; D A Hart: Faith in Doubt; H Arts: Faith and Unbelief
Part of Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, p. 139-142, 1995
Recension av Is God Real? / J. Runzo (red)
Part of Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, p. 89-90, 1994