About
Acceptance rate:
28%
Time to first decision with review:
62 days*
Acceptance to publication:
13 days*
Impact Factor (JCR):
4.1
JCR Rank (Medical Ethics):
2/16
Total content views:
1.78 million
Aims and scope
Journal of Medical Ethics is a leading international journal that reflects the whole field of medical ethics. The journal seeks to promote ethical reflection and conduct in scientific research and medical practice. It features articles on various ethical aspects of health care relevant to health care professionals, members of clinical ethics committees, medical ethics professionals, researchers and bioscientists, policy makers and patients.
For information about Journal of Medical Ethics Editor-in-Chief Professor John McMillan and his editorial team, please refer to the Editorial Board page.
Plan S compliance
Journal of Medical Ethics is a Plan S compliant Transformative Journal. Transformative Journals are one of the compliance routes offered by cOAlition S funders, such as Wellcome, WHO and UKRI. Find out more about Transformative Journals and Plan S compliance on our Author Hub.
Journal information
Ownership
Journal of Medical Ethics is co-owned by the Institute of Medical Ethics and BMJ
Publication Model
Subscription; with hybrid open access option
Frequency
Monthly
Launch date
1975
Indexed by
Web of Science Core Collection: Science Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index; Current Contents: Clinical Medicine, Social and Behavioural Sciences; MEDLINE (Index Medica), PubMed Central (BMJ Open Access Special Collection), Scopus, Embase (Excerpta Medica), CINAHL, Google Scholar
Peer Review Model
Double anonymised; both the reviewer and the author are anonymous to each other
Print ISSN
0306-6800
Online ISSN
1473-4257
Journal Statistics 2022
Acceptance rate: 28%
Speed
Time to first decision without review (median): 5 days
Time to first decision with review (median): 62 days
Time from acceptance to publication (median): 13 days
Impact
Impact Factor category: Medical Ethics
Impact factor (JCR): 4.1
Impact Factor rank: 2/16
5 Year Impact Factor: 3.3
Journal Citation Indicator: 1.62
Eigenfactor: 0.00886
Citescore: 6.2
Citescore rank: 32/270
Scimago Journal rank (SJR): 1.111
Reach
Total content views: 1.78 million
Total Altmetric mentions: 56,929
The impact that academic research has cannot be defined by one single metric. In 2013, BMJ signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). We did this to show our support for using multiple measures and metrics to portray journals’ impact; moving away from the Impact Factor as a single measure.
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Contact information
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Please refer to the Instructions for Authors.
Subscriptions
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Affiliations
The Journal of Medical Ethics is an official journal of the Institute of Medical Ethics.
BMJ is a founding member of COPE (the Committee on Publication Ethics), which provides a forum for publishers and Editors of scientific journals to discuss issues relating to the integrity of the work submitted to or published in their journals.
The EQUATOR Network is an international initiative that seeks to improve the value of medical research literature by promoting accurate, transparent reporting of research studies. The BMJ Group is a sponsor of its activities.
BMJ is a founding organisation of the AllTrials initiative, which calls for all past and present clinical trials to be registered and their results reported.