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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Journal of Business Ethics	38
2	American Journal of Bioethics	29
3	Journal of Medical Ethics	25
4	BMC Medical Ethics	22
5	Nursing Ethics	20
6	Bioethics	17
-	Journal of Responsible Innovation	17
8	Journal of Bioethical Inquiry	15
9	Hastings Center Report	12
-	Environmental Values	12
-	Ethics & Behavior	12
-	Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics	12
13	Inquiry-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy	11
-	Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics	11
-	Philosophical Psychology	11
16	Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics	10
-	Journal of Medicine and Philosophy	10
-	Business Ethics Quarterly	10
19	HEC Forum	9
-	Journal of Political Philosophy	9
-	Neuroethics	9
22	Ethics	8
-	Journal of Applied Philosophy	8
-	Journal of the Philosophy of Sport	8
25	Journal of Media Ethics	7
-	Philosophy & Public Affairs	7
-	Ethics & International Affairs	7
-	Health Care Analysis	7
-	Human Studies	7
-	Nanoethics	7
-	Politics Philosophy & Economics	7
32	Developing World Bioethics	6
-	Journal of Social Philosophy	6
-	Journal of Value Inquiry	6
-	Economics and Philosophy	6
36	Journal of Moral Philosophy	5
-	Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal	5
-	Philosophy of the Social Sciences	5
39	Environmental Ethics	4
-	Law and Philosophy	4
-	International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics	4
42	Ethics & Global Politics	3
-	Social Philosophy & Policy	3
-	Acta Bioethica	3
-	Studies in East European Thought	3