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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Journal of Business Ethics	44
2	American Journal of Bioethics	26
3	Journal of Medical Ethics	23
4	Ethics and Information Technology	22
-	BMC Medical Ethics	22
6	Nursing Ethics	20
-	Science and Engineering Ethics	20
8	Bioethics	17
9	Medicine Health Care and Philosophy	16
10	Journal of Responsible Innovation	15
11	Journal of Bioethical Inquiry	12
-	Business Ethics Quarterly	12
-	Environmental Values	12
-	Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics	12
-	Philosophical Psychology	12
16	Ethics & Behavior	11
17	Hastings Center Report	10
-	Inquiry-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy	10
-	Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics	10
-	Journal of Medicine and Philosophy	10
-	Neuroethics	10
22	Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics	9
-	Journal of Political Philosophy	9
24	HEC Forum	8
-	Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics	8
-	Health Care Analysis	8
-	Human Studies	8
-	Ethics	8
29	Nanoethics	7
-	Politics Philosophy & Economics	7
-	Journal of Applied Philosophy	7
-	Journal of the Philosophy of Sport	7
-	Philosophy & Public Affairs	7
34	Journal of Media Ethics	6
-	Journal of Social Philosophy	6
-	Economics and Philosophy	6
-	Journal of Moral Philosophy	6
-	Developing World Bioethics	6
39	Law and Philosophy	5
-	Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal	5
-	Ethics & International Affairs	5
42	Journal of Value Inquiry	4
-	Ethics & Global Politics	4
-	International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics	4
45	Philosophy of the Social Sciences	3
-	Acta Bioethica	3
-	Studies in East European Thought	3
-	Environmental Ethics	3
49	Social Philosophy & Policy	2