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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Journal of Business Ethics	46
2	American Journal of Bioethics	28
-	BMC Medical Ethics	28
4	Ethics and Information Technology	25
5	Journal of Medical Ethics	24
6	Nursing Ethics	21
7	Medicine Health Care and Philosophy	18
8	Bioethics	17
-	Journal of Responsible Innovation	17
-	Science and Engineering Ethics	17
11	Neuroethics	15
-	Philosophical Psychology	15
13	Hastings Center Report	13
-	Journal of Bioethical Inquiry	13
15	Inquiry-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy	12
-	Journal of Medicine and Philosophy	12
17	Business Ethics Quarterly	11
-	Ethics & Behavior	11
19	Environmental Values	10
-	HEC Forum	10
-	Ethics	10
-	Human Studies	10
23	Politics Philosophy & Economics	9
-	Journal of Applied Philosophy	9
25	Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics	8
-	Nanoethics	8
-	Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics	8
-	Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics	8
-	Philosophy & Public Affairs	8
30	Economics and Philosophy	7
-	Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics	7
-	Journal of Media Ethics	7
-	Developing World Bioethics	7
-	Ethics & International Affairs	7
-	Health Care Analysis	7
-	Journal of the Philosophy of Sport	7
37	Acta Bioethica	6
-	Journal of Political Philosophy	6
-	Philosophy of the Social Sciences	6
-	Journal of Moral Philosophy	6
-	Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal	6
42	Journal of Social Philosophy	5
-	Journal of Value Inquiry	5
-	Social Philosophy & Policy	5
-	Environmental Ethics	5
-	Studies in East European Thought	5
47	Law and Philosophy	4
-	International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics	4
49	Ethics & Global Politics	3