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Journal of Clinical Ethics is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.5). Published by University of Chicago Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1046-7890Verify ISSN ↗1945-5879Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health (social science) | 252 / 387 | 35th | Q3 |
| Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects | 36 / 53 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Health Policy | 232 / 330 | 29th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.5.
Journal of Clinical Ethics is Q3 in Health (social science) (rank 252 of 387), Q3 in Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects (rank 36 of 53) and Q3 in Health Policy (rank 232 of 330), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Clinical 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 1.5, quartile Q3, 35th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.334, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 43.
Journal of Clinical Ethics is published by University of Chicago Press. Its print ISSN is 1046-7890 and its online ISSN is 1945-5879.
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.
Journal of Clinical Ethics has an h-index of 54 and a 2-year mean of 0.88 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #240 of 378 Scopus journals in Health (social science).
Journal of Clinical Ethics published 53 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.
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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