Clinical Ethics
Last updated ISSN 1477-7509
Clinical Ethics is published by SAGE Publishing in health professions. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,900.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Clinical Ethics concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Ethics in medical practice
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Patient Dignity and Privacy
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Organ Donation and Transplantation
- Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1477-7509, 1758-101X |
| Subject area | Health Professions |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,900 |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 829 |
| Publishing since | 1989 |
| Journal website | us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/journal/clinical-ethics |
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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