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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Journal of Business Ethics	45
2	American Journal of Bioethics	26
3	BMC Medical Ethics	25
4	Ethics and Information Technology	23
-	Journal of Medical Ethics	23
6	Nursing Ethics	20
7	Science and Engineering Ethics	19
8	Medicine Health Care and Philosophy	18
9	Bioethics	16
10	Journal of Responsible Innovation	14
11	Journal of Bioethical Inquiry	13
-	Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics	13
-	Philosophical Psychology	13
14	Business Ethics Quarterly	12
-	Environmental Values	12
-	Hastings Center Report	12
-	Neuroethics	12
18	Journal of Medicine and Philosophy	11
-	Inquiry-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy	11
20	Philosophy & Public Affairs	10
-	Ethics	10
-	Ethics & Behavior	10
23	Journal of Political Philosophy	9
-	Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics	9
25	Nanoethics	8
-	Politics Philosophy & Economics	8
-	Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics	8
-	HEC Forum	8
-	Health Care Analysis	8
-	Human Studies	8
31	Economics and Philosophy	7
-	Journal of Agricultural & Environmental Ethics	7
-	Journal of the Philosophy of Sport	7
-	Ethics & International Affairs	7
-	Journal of Applied Philosophy	7
36	Journal of Media Ethics	6
-	Journal of Social Philosophy	6
-	Journal of Moral Philosophy	6
-	Developing World Bioethics	6
40	Journal of Value Inquiry	5
-	Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal	5
42	Law and Philosophy	4
-	Philosophy of the Social Sciences	4
-	Acta Bioethica	4
-	Environmental Ethics	4
-	International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics	4
47	Social Philosophy & Policy	3
-	Ethics & Global Politics	3
-	Studies in East European Thought	3