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Journal of Medical Ethics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.9), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by BMJ Publishing Group.
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ISSN 0306-6800Verify ISSN ↗1473-4257Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 33 / 692 | 95th | Q1 |
| Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects | 4 / 53 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Health (social science) | 32 / 387 | 91st | Q1 |
| Health Policy | 35 / 330 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1975–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.9.
Journal of Medical Ethics is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 33 of 692), Q1 in Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects (rank 4 of 53) and Q1 in Health (social science) (rank 32 of 387), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Medical 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 6.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.951, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 97.
Journal of Medical Ethics is published by BMJ Publishing Group. Its print ISSN is 0306-6800 and its online ISSN is 1473-4257.
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 Medical Ethics has an h-index of 131 and a 2-year mean of 3.11 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #30 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Journal of Medical Ethics published 231 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 353. 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 92 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (23.8%), United Kingdom (22.3%) and Germany (8.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 per 1,000 papers). 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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