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American Journal of Bioethics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 18.5), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1526-5161Verify ISSN ↗1536-0075Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects | 1 / 53 | 99th | Q1 |
| Health Policy | 4 / 330 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 18.5.
American Journal of Bioethics is Q1 in Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects (rank 1 of 53) and Q1 in Health Policy (rank 4 of 330), by CiteScore 2025.
American Journal of Bioethics 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 18.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.651, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 81.
American Journal of Bioethics is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1526-5161 and its online ISSN is 1536-0075.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
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.
American Journal of Bioethics has an h-index of 96 and a 2-year mean of 2.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 18.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #12 of 53 Scopus journals in Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects.
American Journal of Bioethics published 457 papers in 2025. 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 93 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (62.7%), Canada (7.3%) and United Kingdom (7%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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