Ethics: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

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

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Journal of Business Ethics	52
2	American Journal of Bioethics	28
3	BMC Medical Ethics	26
4	Ethics and Information Technology	24
5	Journal of Medical Ethics	23
6	Nursing Ethics	21
7	Medicine Health Care and Philosophy	18
-	Science and Engineering Ethics	18
9	Bioethics	17
10	Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics	15
-	Journal of Responsible Innovation	15
-	Neuroethics	15
-	Philosophical Psychology	15
14	Hastings Center Report	13
-	Journal of Bioethical Inquiry	13
16	Inquiry-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy	12
-	Journal of Medicine and Philosophy	12
18	Ethics	11
19	Business Ethics Quarterly	10
-	Environmental Values	10
-	Ethics & Behavior	10
22	HEC Forum	9
-	Politics Philosophy & Economics	9
-	Human Studies	9
-	Philosophy & Public Affairs	9
26	Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics	8
-	Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics	8
-	Ethics & International Affairs	8
-	Journal of Applied Philosophy	8
30	Economics and Philosophy	7
-	Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics	7
-	Journal of Political Philosophy	7
-	Journal of Social Philosophy	7
-	Nanoethics	7
-	Developing World Bioethics	7
-	Journal of the Philosophy of Sport	7
-	Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal	7
38	Journal of Media Ethics	6
-	Health Care Analysis	6
-	Journal of Moral Philosophy	6
41	Acta Bioethica	5
-	Journal of Value Inquiry	5
-	Environmental Ethics	5
44	Law and Philosophy	4
-	Philosophy of the Social Sciences	4
-	Social Philosophy & Policy	4
-	International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics	4
-	Studies in East European Thought	4
49	Ethics & Global Politics	3