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Public Health Ethics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.1), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 1754-9973Verify ISSN ↗1754-9981Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,499 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 41 / 891 | 95th | Q1 |
| Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects | 10 / 53 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Health Policy | 112 / 330 | 66th | 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 4.1.
Public Health Ethics is Q1 in Philosophy (rank 41 of 891), Q1 in Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects (rank 10 of 53) and Q2 in Health Policy (rank 112 of 330), by CiteScore 2025.
Public Health 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 4.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.716, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 36.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,499 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.
Public Health Ethics is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 1754-9973 and its online ISSN is 1754-9981.
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.
Public Health Ethics has an h-index of 50 and a 2-year mean of 1.25 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #107 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Public Health Ethics published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 37. 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 99 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (17.2%), United Kingdom (16.5%) and Netherlands (13.9%).
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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