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Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.7), WoS AHCI/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
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ISSN 1054-6863Verify ISSN ↗1086-3249Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History and Philosophy of Science | 30 / 254 | 88th | Q1 |
| Health (social science) | 169 / 387 | 56th | Q2 |
| Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects | 25 / 53 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Health Policy | 179 / 330 | 45th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1991–2025, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.7.
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal is Q1 in History and Philosophy of Science (rank 30 of 254), Q2 in Health (social science) (rank 169 of 387) and Q2 in Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects (rank 25 of 53), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.474, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 54.
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal is published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Its print ISSN is 1054-6863 and its online ISSN is 1086-3249.
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 Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal has an h-index of 74 and a 2-year mean of 0.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #51 of 233 Scopus journals in History and Philosophy of Science.
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 43. 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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