Journal of Medical Ethics
Last updated ISSN 0306-6800
Journal of Medical Ethics is published by BMJ in health professions. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Medical 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
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Reproductive Health and Technologies
- Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
- Patient Dignity and Privacy
- Organ Donation and Transplantation
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
Key facts
| Publisher | BMJ |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0306-6800, 1473-4257 |
| Subject area | Health Professions |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 8,133 |
| Publishing since | 1971 |
| Journal website | jme.bmj.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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