The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics
Last updated ISSN 1073-1105
The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics is published by Cambridge University Press in medicine. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,550.
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What it publishes
Recent work in The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Ethics in medical practice
- Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare
Key facts
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1073-1105, 1748-720X |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,550 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 3,636 |
| Publishing since | 1973 |
| Journal website | www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-law-medic |
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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