Tuesday, August 14, 2018

2018 Google Scholar Metrics for Bioethics Journals

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 2018. 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

  1. Nursing Ethics                                                                              37          51
  2. Journal of Medical Ethics                                                             33          40
  3. Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics                                             32          40
  4. Science and Engineering Ethics                                                        30           45
  5. The American Journal of Bioethics                                              30         41
  6. bmc medical ethics                                                                       28           38
  7. Bioethics                                                                                       26         37       
  8. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy                                        24         28
  9. Neuroethics                                                                                   22         37
  10. Hastings Center Report                                                                 22          30
  11. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry                                                                   19        22
  12.  American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience                              18            26
  13.  Journal of Medicine and Philosophy                                            18          25
  14. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics         18          21
  15. Developing World Bioethics                                                                  16          21
  16. Nursing Philosophy                                                                        16      18
  17. Health Care Analysis                                                                     15       22
  18. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics                                            15          20
  19. Public Health Ethics                                                                               14          17
  20. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics                                                       13          21
  21. NanoEthics                                                                                             13         18
  22. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics                                                     13       17
  23. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal                                                13          17
  24. The Journal of Clinical Ethics                                                        12          19
  25. Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine                         12         19 
  26. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine                                                12        15
  27. Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics                                                                11              15
  28. HEC Forum                                                                                     10         17
  29. Ethik in der Medizin                                                                         10           13
  30. American Journal of Bioethics Empirical Bioethics                                8          10
  31. International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics              8         10
  32. Monash Bioethics Review                                                                7            12
  33. South African Journal of Bioethics and Law                                         7             9
  34. JAHR - European Journal of Bioethics                                             5           9
  35. Asian Bioethics Review                                                                   5           7
  36. The New Bioethics                                                                           5            7
  37. Christian Bioethics                                                                            5           6
  38. National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly                                              4             6
  39. Journal international de bioethique                                                         4             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 2013-2017 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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