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Chinese Medical Ethics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.7). Published by Editorial department of Chinese Medical Ethics.
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ISSN 1001-8565Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Editorial department of Chinese Medical Ethics
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 330 / 891 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Health (social science) | 331 / 387 | 14th | Q4 |
| Health Policy | 284 / 330 | 14th | Q4 |
| Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects | 47 / 53 | 12th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.7.
Chinese Medical Ethics is Q2 in Philosophy (rank 330 of 891), Q4 in Health (social science) (rank 331 of 387) and Q4 in Health Policy (rank 284 of 330), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Chinese Medical Ethics 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 0.7, quartile Q2, 62nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.221, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 7.
Chinese Medical Ethics is published by Editorial department of Chinese Medical Ethics. Its ISSN is 1001-8565.
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.
Chinese Medical Ethics has an h-index of 3 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #698 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Chinese Medical Ethics published 6 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2011 with 266. 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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