Impact Factor
3.12
Journal Citation Impact
Estimated influence, citation density, publishing volume, and citation integrity from the analytics table.
Citation rate
2.28
394 total citations
h5-index
22
h5 depth signal
Cited share
65.0%
117 of 180
Total citations
394
Citation footprint
Metric signal
2.09
External metric anchor
Self-citation
12.2%
48 self-citations
Citations Trend
Monthly Publications Cadence
Citing Geographic Demographics
Australia
320
United States
192
United Kingdom
76
Canada
56
China
41
Citing Fields of Research
Medical Ethics
408
Philosophy
181
Healthcare Policy
93
Palliative Care
93
Patient Care
75
Publishing Activity & Reach
Volume, recency, access pattern, and citing-community signals from the journal analytics record.
All-time article footprint
1,651
Articles tracked across the journal lifetime
Indexed publication set
180
117 cited publications
Last 12 months
141
11.8 publications/month
Open access share
46.1%
65 OA publications in the last year
Leading citing country
Australia
320 citing publications
Leading citing field
Medical Ethics
408 citing publications
Latest tracked publication
15 October 2026
10 recent records available
Coverage & Indexing History
v1n1, 2004-
v1n1, 2004-
Research Focus & Classification
Indexed Subjects
Medical Ethics
Philosophy
Palliative Care
Patient Care
Healthcare Policy
Issuing & Sponsoring Bodies
Contributor
University of Otago. Bioethics Centre
Broad Categories
Ethics
Medical Ethics
Philosophy
Transplantation
Palliative Care
Anthropology
Human Reproduction
MeSH Descriptors
Bioethical Issues
Bioethics
Latest Publications
Recent article records with DOI-first linking and condensed abstracts.
01
DOI 10.1007/s11673-026-10633-w
Open DOI
Beyond Principlism: A Cosmopolitan and Care Ethics Approach to One Digital Health
This article examines the limitations of principlism in addressing the ethical challenges posed by One Digital Health. While principlism remains influential in bioethics, digital health, and global health policy, we argue that it is insu...
02
DOI 10.1007/s11673-026-10640-x
Open DOI
Youth as Underrepresented Stakeholders in AI-Mediated Health Environments: A Bioethical Analysis of Regulatory Gaps
03
04
DOI 10.1007/s11673-026-10604-1
Open DOI
Laughing As We Die
Our dear Alphonso Lingis taught us to embrace objects as sacred; he reminded us how to challenge modernity’s pernicious indoctrination—the temporal and spiritual flattening of our capacity to fully inhabit real life. This sacred imagines...
05
DOI 10.1007/s11673-026-10629-6
Open DOI
The Infected Homo Sacer: The (Auto)Immunity and Biopolitics of Haitian Zombies in Junot Díaz’s “Monstro”
06
DOI 10.1007/s11673-025-10530-8
Open DOI
Walking the Middle Path
The arrival of publicly-accessible generative-AI tools, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, has significantly disrupted standard practice in education, research, and publishing. Academic publishers and journals, in particular, have responded by ad...
07
DOI 10.1007/s11673-026-10610-3
Open DOI
When No Will Can Be Interpreted or Communicated: Paediatric Euthanasia in a Case of a Never-Competent Minor with Profound Cognitive Disability in a Latin American Context
Colombia’s Constitutional Court ruling T-057 of 2025 addresses one of the most morally demanding questions in contemporary bioethics: whether surrogate-requested euthanasia can ever be justified for a patient who has never possessed deci...
08
DOI 10.1007/s11673-026-10620-1
Open DOI
A Bioethical Analysis of a Recent Case Regarding Surrogacy in Russia
This article examines a recent Russian surrogacy case through a bioethical and socio-legal lens to assess the regulation of commercial surrogacy, the public response it generated, and the role of bioethics in contemporary Russian debate....
09
10
DOI 10.1007/s11673-026-10638-5
Open DOI
Emotional AI in Chinese Healthcare: Benevolent Deception Machines and Their Medical Ethical Dilemmas
Bibliographical & Catalog Notes
Description based on: Vol. 2, no. 1 (2005); title from cover.
Latest issue consulted: Vol. 2, no. 3 (2005).
Also issued online.
Associated with Bioethics Centre at the University of Otago, Australasian Bioethics Association, and Australian and New Zealand Institute of Health, Law and Ethics.