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Advancing Global Bioethics is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5). Published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V..
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Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health (social science) | 353 / 387 | 8th | Q4 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 667 / 725 | 8th | Q4 |
| Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects | 50 / 53 | 6th | Q4 |
| Health Policy | 311 / 330 | 5th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
Advancing Global Bioethics is Q4 in Health (social science) (rank 353 of 387), Q4 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 667 of 725) and Q4 in Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects (rank 50 of 53), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Advancing Global Bioethics is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4, 8th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Advancing Global Bioethics is published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Its print ISSN is 2212-652X and its online ISSN is 2212-6538.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Advancing Global Bioethics has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #294 of 378 Scopus journals in Health (social science).
Advancing Global Bioethics published 9 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 77. 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.
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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