Ethics: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Journal of Business Ethics	50
2	American Journal of Bioethics	27
3	BMC Medical Ethics	24
4	Journal of Medical Ethics	23
-	Ethics and Information Technology	23
6	Nursing Ethics	22
7	Medicine Health Care and Philosophy	19
8	Science and Engineering Ethics	18
9	Bioethics	17
10	Journal of Responsible Innovation	15
11	Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics	14
-	Neuroethics	14
-	Philosophical Psychology	14
-	Hastings Center Report	14
15	Journal of Bioethical Inquiry	13
16	Business Ethics Quarterly	12
-	Inquiry-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy	12
18	Ethics	11
-	Environmental Values	11
-	Journal of Medicine and Philosophy	11
21	Ethics & Behavior	10
22	Human Studies	9
-	Philosophy & Public Affairs	9
-	Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics	9
25	Journal of Applied Philosophy	8
-	HEC Forum	8
-	Nanoethics	8
-	Politics Philosophy & Economics	8
-	Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics	8
30	Developing World Bioethics	7
-	Ethics & International Affairs	7
-	Health Care Analysis	7
-	Journal of the Philosophy of Sport	7
-	Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal	7
-	Economics and Philosophy	7
-	Journal of Political Philosophy	7
37	Journal of Moral Philosophy	6
-	Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics	6
-	Journal of Social Philosophy	6
40	Acta Bioethica	5
-	Journal of Media Ethics	5
-	Journal of Value Inquiry	5
43	Environmental Ethics	4
-	International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics	4
-	Studies in East European Thought	4
-	Philosophy of the Social Sciences	4
47	Ethics & Global Politics	3
-	Law and Philosophy	3
-	Social Philosophy & Policy	3