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Research Ethics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 1747-0161Verify ISSN ↗2047-6094Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 24 / 891 | 97th | Q1 |
| Education | 278 / 1698 | 83rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.5.
Research Ethics is Q1 in Philosophy (rank 24 of 891) and Q1 in Education (rank 278 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Research Ethics is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 5.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.744, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 25.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$500 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.
Research Ethics is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1747-0161 and its online ISSN is 2047-6094.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Research Ethics has an h-index of 39 and a 2-year mean of 3.72 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #10 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Research Ethics published 48 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 74. 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 Germany (14.3%), United States (13.4%) and United Kingdom (11.4%).
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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