Ethics: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(The Journal Impact Factor, or JIF, denotes the average number of citations a paper of a given journal accrues within a two-year timespan, as calculated by Clarivate Analytics' database Web of Science; note that the journal coverage here at OOIR might deviate slightly from Web of Science's. The JIFs that used to have more than one decimal point are rounded here for copyright-related reasons.)

Rank	Journal	Impact Factor 2024
1	American Journal of Bioethics	ca. 20.8
2	Journal of Business Ethics	ca. 6.7
3	Journal of Responsible Innovation	ca. 4.1
4	Ethics and Information Technology	ca. 4
5	Neuroethics	ca. 3.8
6	Journal of Medical Ethics	ca. 3.4
7	BMC Medical Ethics	ca. 3.1
-	Medicine Health Care and Philosophy	ca. 3.1
9	Business Ethics Quarterly	ca. 3
-	Science and Engineering Ethics	ca. 3
11	Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics	ca. 2.8
12	Nursing Ethics	ca. 2.7
13	Ethics	ca. 2.4
14	Hastings Center Report	ca. 2.3
15	Bioethics	ca. 2.1
-	Journal of Political Philosophy	ca. 2.1
-	Philosophical Psychology	ca. 2.1
-	Philosophy & Public Affairs	ca. 2.1
19	Ethics & Behavior	ca. 1.9
-	Journal of Medicine and Philosophy	ca. 1.9
21	Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics	ca. 1.7
-	Journal of the Philosophy of Sport	ca. 1.7
23	Politics Philosophy & Economics	ca. 1.6
-	Environmental Values	ca. 1.6
-	Health Care Analysis	ca. 1.6
26	Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics	ca. 1.5
-	Economics and Philosophy	ca. 1.5
-	Nanoethics	ca. 1.5
-	Journal of Bioethical Inquiry	ca. 1.5
30	HEC Forum	ca. 1.2
-	Journal of Social Philosophy	ca. 1.2
32	Environmental Ethics	ca. 1.1
-	Ethics & International Affairs	ca. 1.1
-	Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics	ca. 1.1
-	Journal of Media Ethics	ca. 1.1
36	Developing World Bioethics	ca. 1
-	Human Studies	ca. 1
38	Inquiry-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy	ca. 0.9
-	Journal of Moral Philosophy	ca. 0.9
40	Law and Philosophy	ca. 0.6
41	Studies in East European Thought	ca. 0.5
-	Journal of Value Inquiry	ca. 0.5
43	Ethics & Global Politics	ca. 0.4
-	Philosophy of the Social Sciences	ca. 0.4
45	Social Philosophy & Policy	ca. 0.3
-	International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics	ca. 0.3