American Journal of Bioethics

American Journal of Bioethics

Discipline	Bioethics, philosophy, health policy, health law, health economics, sociology of medicine
Language	English
Edited  by	David Magnus
Publication details
History	1999–present
Publisher	Taylor & Francis
Frequency	Monthly
Impact factor	20.8 (2024)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Am. J. Bioeth.
Indexing CODEN (alt  · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR  · NLM (alt) · Scopus  · W&L
ISSN	1526-5161  (print) 1536-0075  (web)
LCCN	sn99009204
OCLC  no.	42279301
Links
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The American Journal of Bioethics is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Taylor & Francis, covering all aspects of bioethics. It publishes target articles, open peer commentaries, editorials, book reviews, and case studies and commentaries in clinical care and research ethics. The journal also publishes special issues that address timely ethical challenges. The editor-in-chief is David Magnus (Stanford University), who was also one of the journals founders.^{[ citation needed ]}

The journal was established in 1999 by founding editor-in-chief Glenn McGee and David Magnus.^{[ citation needed ]} It has produced independently managed journals on neuroscience and empirical bioethics as spin-offs.

bioethics.net

The journal is affiliated with bioethicstoday.org, also owned by Taylor & Francis, which publishes information on the latest journal publications, events, job opportunities, current news, and original blog content. The website is maintained by the editorial staff of the journal.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Biological Abstracts ^[1]
• BIOSIS Previews ^[2]
• CINAHL ^[3]
• CSA databases
• Current Contents/Life Sciences ^[2]
• Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences ^[2]
• EMBiology
• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed ^[4]
• ProQuest databases
• Science Citation Index ^[2]
• Scopus ^[5]
• Social Sciences Citation Index ^[2]
• Social Service Review
• The Philosopher's Index

According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a 2024 impact factor of 20.8, ranking it first out of 23 journals in the category "Medical Ethics", ^[6] first out of 77 journals in the category "Ethics", ^[7] first out of 68 journals in the category "Social Issues", ^[8] and first out of 48 journals in the category "Social Sciences, Biomedical". ^[9] The journal's 5 year impact factor is 14.7.

See also

• List of bioethics journals
• List of ethics journals

References

1. "Biological Abstracts – Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Thomson Reuters. Archived from the original on 2016-01-01. Retrieved 2016-11-02.
2. "Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Thomson Reuters. Archived from the original on 2017-09-26. Retrieved 2016-11-02.
3. "CINAHL Complete Database Coverage List". CINAHL . EBSCO Information Services . Retrieved 2016-11-02.
4. "American Journal of Bioethics". NLM Catalog. National Center for Biotechnology Information . Retrieved 2016-11-02.
5. "Content overview". Scopus. Elsevier . Retrieved 2016-11-02.
6. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Medical Ethics". 2015 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2016.
7. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Ethics". 2015 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2016.
8. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Social Issues". 2015 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2016.
9. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Social Sciences, Biomedical". 2015 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2016.

External links

• Official website
• bioethics.net