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Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.5), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Inc..
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ISSN 1556-2646Verify ISSN ↗1556-2654Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,650 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 172 / 1162 | 85th | Q1 |
| Communication | 131 / 541 | 75th | Q1 |
| Education | 528 / 1698 | 68th | Q2 |
| Social Psychology | 133 / 315 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.5.
Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics is Q1 in Law (rank 172 of 1162), Q1 in Communication (rank 131 of 541) and Q2 in Education (rank 528 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.444, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 46.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,650 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.
Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics is published by SAGE Publications Inc. Its print ISSN is 1556-2646 and its online ISSN is 1556-2654.
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.
Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics has an h-index of 62 and a 2-year mean of 2.29 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #88 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics published 46 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 79. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (27.9%), Canada (6.3%) and Nigeria (5.7%).
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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