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International Library of Bioethics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6). Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2662-9186Verify ISSN ↗2662-9194Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 394 / 891 | 55th | Q2 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 559 / 744 | 24th | Q4 |
| Library and Information Sciences | 224 / 296 | 24th | Q4 |
| Education | 1432 / 1698 | 15th | Q4 |
| Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects | 48 / 53 | 10th | Q4 |
| Health Policy | 298 / 330 | 9th | Q4 |
| Biotechnology | 300 / 325 | 7th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
International Library of Bioethics is Q2 in Philosophy (rank 394 of 891), Q4 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 559 of 744) and Q4 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 224 of 296), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 7 subject areas in all.
International Library of 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 0.6, quartile Q2, 55th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
International Library of Bioethics is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 2662-9186 and its online ISSN is 2662-9194.
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.
International Library of Bioethics has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #199 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
International Library of Bioethics published 75 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 140. 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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