Tuesday, July 25, 2017

2017 Bioethics journals h5 / h5-median index

I suspect I could have had this easier, but be that as it may, I searched for bioethics/health care ethics/ medical ethics journals on google scholar to see how they fare in terms of citations over the last five years.


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 July 2017. Any mistakes are my own, please alert me if you discover discrepancies between what I am reporting and what you're able to find on google scholar.


                                                                                                                           h5               h5-median

Nursing Ethics                                                                              34           44
Journal of Medical Ethics                                                             31          42
The American Journal of Bioethics                                              28           37
Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics                                           27           40
Science and Engineering Ethics                                                        30           45
Bioethics                                                                                       25          31       
Neuroethics                                                                                   23           36
bmc medical ethics                                                                       23           32
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy                                        20         25
Hastings Center Report                                                                19          32
American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience                              18            28
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy                                            18          22
Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics         17          20
Health Care Analysis                                                                     16       22
Nursing Philosophy                                                                        15          29
Developing World Bioethics                                                          15          28
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry                                                           15          16
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics                                               14          18

Public Health Ethics                                                                       13          22

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics                                     13          18
HEC Forum                                                                                     12          28
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal                                                12          19
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine                                                12        15
NanoEthics                                                                                     12          16
The Journal of Clinical Ethics                                                        12          16
Indian Journal of Medical Ethics                                                     11          18
American Journal of Bioethics Primary Research                           11           15
Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine                          9              17
Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics                                                                8              13
International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics              8             11
Ethik in der Medizin                                                                         8              10
South African Journal of Bioethics and Law                                         8             9
Medical Ethics Journal                                                                     7              9
Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics                                    6             12
Monash Bioethics Review                                                                 6              8
Asian Bioethics Review                                                                   5             10
Christian Bioethics                                                                            5              6
Journal international de bioethique                                                         4              8
Ethics in Biology, Engineering and Medicine                                   4              6
European Journal of Bioethics                                                         4              4
National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly                                              3              5

*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 2012-2016 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

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