Wednesday, August 14, 2019

2019 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 2019. 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. Science and Engineering Ethics                                                         36           52
  3. Journal of Medical Ethics                                                             34          44 
  4. The American Journal of Bioethics                                              31        39
  5. bmc medical ethics                                                                       30           43 
  6. Bioethics                                                                                       25         35 
  7. Hastings Center Report                                                                 24          35  
  8. Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics                                                 23         37     
  9. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy                                        23         35
  10. Neuroethics                                                                                   19         27
  11. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics         19          26
  12. American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience                              18            27
  13. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry                                                                     18        25
  14. Nursing Philosophy                                                                          18      22 
  15. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics                                            17          22 
  16. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy                                              16          22 
  17. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal                                                16          22
  18. Health Care Analysis                                                                     15       22
  19. Public Health Ethics                                                                                 15          19
  20. NanoEthics                                                                                               14         20 
  21. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics                                                         14          18 
  22. Developing World Bioethics                                                                    13          17
  23. Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine                           12         25 
  24. HEC Forum                                                                                       12         20
  25. American Journal of Bioethics Empirical Bioethics                                12          14 
  26. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics                                                     11       17
  27. The Journal of Clinical Ethics                                                        11          15
  28. Ethik in der Medizin                                                                         9           14
  29. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine                                                9        14
  30. Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics                                                                8              12
  31. International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics              8         11
  32. The New Bioethics                                                                           8            11
  33. Ethics, Medicine and Public Health                                                 7           10 
  34. South African Journal of Bioethics and Law                                         7            7
  35. Christian Bioethics                                                                            5          7
  36. Ethics and Medicine                                                                        5             6 
  37. Asian Bioethics Review                                                                   4           7
  38. JAHR - European Journal of Bioethics                                             4          5
  39. Journal international de bioethique                                                  4             5
  40. National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly                                              4             5
  41. Chinese Medical Ethics                                                                   2             2




*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 2014-2018 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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