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Science and Engineering Ethics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7), WoS SCIE/SSCI. Published by Springer Netherlands.
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ISSN 1353-3452Verify ISSN ↗1471-5546Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Cost to publish: About US$3,090 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects | 3 / 53 | 95th | Q1 |
| Health (social science) | 31 / 387 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Health Policy | 32 / 330 | 90th | Q1 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 89 / 317 | 72nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.
Science and Engineering Ethics is Q1 in Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects (rank 3 of 53), Q1 in Health (social science) (rank 31 of 387) and Q1 in Health Policy (rank 32 of 330), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Science and Engineering 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 7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.926, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 90.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,090 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.
Science and Engineering Ethics is published by Springer Netherlands. Its print ISSN is 1353-3452 and its online ISSN is 1471-5546.
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.
Science and Engineering Ethics has an h-index of 110 and a 2-year mean of 5.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 53 Scopus journals in Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects.
Science and Engineering Ethics published 46 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 147. 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 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (23.3%), Netherlands (15.7%) and Germany (10.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (1.2 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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