Ethics: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

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

(The TQCC is the top quartile citation count: if all publications of a journal are sorted by citation count in descending order, then the TQCC is the citation count of the publication residing at the end of the top quartile; for example, given 100 publications, the TQCC is the citation count of the 25th ranked paper. The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01)

Rank	Journal	TQCC
1	Journal of Business Ethics	11
-	Science and Engineering Ethics	11
3	Ethics and Information Technology	10
4	BMC Medical Ethics	7
-	Journal of Responsible Innovation	7
6	Nursing Ethics	6
7	Medicine Health Care and Philosophy	5
-	Neuroethics	5
9	Business Ethics Quarterly	4
-	Environmental Values	4
-	Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics	4
-	Journal of Bioethical Inquiry	4
-	Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics	4
-	Journal of Medicine and Philosophy	4
-	Ethics & Behavior	4
16	Bioethics	3
-	Hastings Center Report	3
-	HEC Forum	3
-	Journal of Political Philosophy	3
-	Nanoethics	3
-	Politics Philosophy & Economics	3
-	Journal of Medical Ethics	3
23	Journal of Media Ethics	2
-	Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics	2
-	American Journal of Bioethics	2
-	Developing World Bioethics	2
-	Health Care Analysis	2
-	Human Studies	2
-	Journal of the Philosophy of Sport	2
-	Philosophical Psychology	2
-	Philosophy & Public Affairs	2
32	Economics and Philosophy	1
-	Ethics & Global Politics	1
-	Inquiry-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy	1
-	Journal of Social Philosophy	1
-	Journal of Value Inquiry	1
-	Law and Philosophy	1
-	Philosophy of the Social Sciences	1
-	Ethics & International Affairs	1
-	Journal of Applied Philosophy	1
-	Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics	1
-	Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal	1
43	Social Philosophy & Policy	0
-	Acta Bioethica	0
-	Environmental Ethics	0
-	Ethics	0
-	International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics	0
-	Journal of Moral Philosophy	0
-	Studies in East European Thought	0