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Hastings Center Report is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.3), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell.
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ISSN 0093-0334Verify ISSN ↗1552-146XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Cost to publish: About US$3,570 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 68 / 891 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Health (social science) | 144 / 387 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects | 22 / 53 | 59th | Q2 |
| Health Policy | 152 / 330 | 54th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1971–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.3.
Hastings Center Report is Q1 in Philosophy (rank 68 of 891), Q2 in Health (social science) (rank 144 of 387) and Q2 in Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects (rank 22 of 53), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Hastings Center Report 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 3.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.671, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 80.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,570 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Hastings Center Report is published by Wiley-Blackwell. Its print ISSN is 0093-0334 and its online ISSN is 1552-146X.
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.
Hastings Center Report has an h-index of 110 and a 2-year mean of 2.02 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #38 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Hastings Center Report published 95 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 177. 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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