I suspect I could have had this easier, but be that as it may, I searched for bioethics/health care ethics/ medical ethics journal on google scholar to see how they fare in terms of citations over the last five years. I'm afraid the list isn't quite complete as for some reason at least one well-known quality publication, the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, just doesn't pop up.
Quite possibly the below table will be displayed in odd ways on your screen.
Usual CoI blurb applies. I co-edit two of the journals in this list. List up-dated August 2015.
Usual CoI blurb applies. I co-edit two of the journals in this list. List up-dated August 2015.
Journal of Medical Ethics 28 38
Nursing Ethics 28 36
The American Journal of Bioethics 28 34
Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 26
33
Science and Engineering Ethics 22 34
Bioethics 22 28
Hastings Center Report 20 27
Neuroethics 20
25
bmc medical ethics 19
25
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 18 22
Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics 16 22
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 16 20
Perspectives in
Biology and Medicine 15 21
Health Care Analysis 14
23
Nursing Philosophy 14 22
NanoEthics 14 20
Developing World Bioethics 14 17
Public Health Ethics 13 18
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 13 17
The Journal of Clinical Ethics 12 23
HEC Forum 12 20
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 12 16
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 11 16
American Journal of Bioethics Primary Research 11 15
Indian Journal of Medical Ethics 10 10
Asian Bioethics Review 9 13
Ethik in der Medizin 9
12
International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 8 11
South African Journal of Bioethics and Law 7 11
Christian Bioethics 6
7
Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics 5 9
Monash Bioethics Review 5
6
Journal international de bioethique 5
6
Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics 4
5
National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly 3
4
Turkiye Klinikleri Journal of Medical Ethics-Law and History 2 3
*h5-index is the h-index for articles published in the last 5 complete years. It is the largest number h such that h articles published in 2010-2014 have at least h citations each
**h5-median for a publication is the median number of citations for the articles that make up its h5-index