BMC Medical Ethics
Last updated ISSN 1472-6939
BMC Medical Ethics is published by BioMed Central in medicine. It is open access. The article processing charge is $2,290.
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What it publishes
Recent work in BMC Medical Ethics concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Ethics in medical practice
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
- Organ Donation and Transplantation
- Patient Dignity and Privacy
- BRCA gene mutations in cancer
- Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
Key facts
| Publisher | BioMed Central |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1472-6939 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $2,290 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 1,926 |
| Publishing since | 1973 |
| Journal website | bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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