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Acta Bioethica is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.7), WoS SCIE/SSCI. Published by Universidad de Chile - Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios en Bioetica.
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ISSN 0717-5906Verify ISSN ↗1726-569XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Universidad de Chile - Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios en Bioetica
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health (social science) | 324 / 387 | 16th | Q4 |
| Health Policy | 277 / 330 | 16th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.7.
Acta Bioethica is Q4 in Health (social science) (rank 324 of 387) and Q4 in Health Policy (rank 277 of 330), by CiteScore 2025.
Acta Bioethica is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 0.7, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 16th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.175, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 13.
Acta Bioethica is published by Universidad de Chile - Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios en Bioetica. Its print ISSN is 0717-5906 and its online ISSN is 1726-569X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Acta Bioethica has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 0.36 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #309 of 378 Scopus journals in Health (social science).
Acta Bioethica published 39 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 55. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 78 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Chile (25%), China (21.9%) and Portugal (12.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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