Monday, August 03, 2015

Google scholar h5 indices for English language bioethics/health care ethics/medical ethics journals

I suspect I could have had this easier, but be that as it may, I searched for bioethics/health care ethics/ medical ethics journal on google scholar to see how they fare in terms of citations over the last five years. I'm afraid the list isn't quite complete as for some reason at least one well-known quality publication, the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, just doesn't pop up.

Quite possibly the below table will be displayed in odd ways on your screen. 

Usual CoI blurb applies. I co-edit two of the journals in this list. List up-dated August 2015.


Journal of Medical Ethics                                                             28           38
Nursing Ethics                                                                              28           36
The American Journal of Bioethics                                              28           34
Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics                                           26           33
Science and Engineering Ethics                                                        22           34
Bioethics                                                                                       22           28
Hastings Center Report                                                                 20           27
Neuroethics                                                                                   20           25
bmc medical ethics                                                                       19           25
Journal of Medicine and Philosophy                                            18           22
Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics         16           22
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy                                        16          20
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine                                                15          21
Health Care Analysis                                                                     14          23
Nursing Philosophy                                                                        14          22
NanoEthics                                                                                     14           20
Developing World Bioethics                                                          14           17
Public Health Ethics                                                                       13           18
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics                                               13           17
The Journal of Clinical Ethics                                                        12           23
HEC Forum                                                                                     12           20
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics                                     12           16
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry                                                           11           16
American Journal of Bioethics Primary Research                           11           15
Indian Journal of Medical Ethics                                                     10           10
Asian Bioethics Review                                                                   9              13
Ethik in der Medizin                                                                         9              12
International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics              8             11
South African Journal of Bioethics and Law                                            7             11
Christian Bioethics                                                                            6              7
Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics                                        5             9
Monash Bioethics Review                                                                 5              6
Journal international de bioethique                                                          5              6
Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics                                                                 4              5
National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly                                              3              4
Turkiye Klinikleri Journal of Medical Ethics-Law and History                     2             3

*h5-index is the h-index for articles published in the last 5 complete years. It is the largest number h such that h articles published in 2010-2014 have at least h citations each
 
**h5-median for a publication is the median number of citations for the articles that make up its h5-index

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