Journal of Law and the Biosciences
Last updated ISSN 2053-9711
Journal of Law and the Biosciences is published by Oxford University Press in medicine. It is open access. There is no article processing charge.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Law and the Biosciences concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
- Reproductive Health and Technologies
- Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Intellectual Property and Patents
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
- Ethics in medical practice
- Law, AI, and Intellectual Property
Key facts
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2053-9711 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | None |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 523 |
| Publishing since | 1966 |
| Journal website | academic.oup.com/jlb |
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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