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Journal of Military Ethics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.8). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1502-7570Verify ISSN ↗1502-7589Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 155 / 891 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 667 / 1530 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.8.
Journal of Military Ethics is Q1 in Philosophy (rank 155 of 891) and Q2 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 667 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Military 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 1.8, quartile Q1, 82nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.353, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 28.
Journal of Military Ethics is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1502-7570 and its online ISSN is 1502-7589.
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.
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 Military Ethics has an h-index of 39 and a 2-year mean of 0.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #163 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Journal of Military Ethics published 30 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 33. 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 82 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (39.6%), United Kingdom (9.1%) and Netherlands (8.5%).
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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