Impact Factor
3.59
Journal Citation Impact
Estimated influence, citation density, publishing volume, and citation integrity from the analytics table.
Citation rate
4.32
462 total citations
h5-index
30
h5 depth signal
Cited share
75.0%
84 of 112
Total citations
462
Citation footprint
Metric signal
3.66
External metric anchor
Self-citation
5.2%
24 self-citations
Citations Trend
Monthly Publications Cadence
Citing Geographic Demographics
United States
113
United Kingdom
80
Germany
77
Netherlands
76
Sweden
50
Citing Fields of Research
Medical Ethics
322
Philosophy
258
Psychiatry & Psychology
108
Patient Care
76
Palliative Care
72
Publishing Activity & Reach
Volume, recency, access pattern, and citing-community signals from the journal analytics record.
All-time article footprint
1,894
Articles tracked across the journal lifetime
Indexed publication set
112
84 cited publications
Last 12 months
101
8.4 publications/month
Open access share
63.4%
64 OA publications in the last year
Leading citing country
United States
113 citing publications
Leading citing field
Medical Ethics
322 citing publications
Latest tracked publication
16 October 2026
10 recent records available
Coverage & Indexing History
v1n1, 1998-
v1n1, 1998-
Active Coverage
Research Focus & Classification
Indexed Subjects
Medical Ethics
Philosophy
Psychiatry & Psychology
Palliative Care
Psychiatry
Issuing & Sponsoring Bodies
Contributor
European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care
Broad Categories
Ethics
Medical Ethics
Philosophy
Patient Care
History & Philosophy Of Science
Palliative Care
MeSH Descriptors
Bioethics
Ethics, Medical
Europe
Philosophy, Medical
Latest Publications
Recent article records with DOI-first linking and condensed abstracts.
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DOI 10.1007/s11019-026-10411-w
Open DOI
From illness to stillness: on becoming (a) patient
02
DOI 10.1007/s11019-026-10410-x
Open DOI
How do we understand the pain of the other? The role of imagination in the verbal communication of physical pain
03
DOI 10.1007/s11019-026-10407-6
Open DOI
The clicking doctors: how the mouse restructures clinical attention
The attention of office-based physicians is increasingly structured less by the patients in front of them than by the screen beside them — by the clicks, notifications, system lags, and task-switching that the practice information system...
04
DOI 10.1007/s11019-026-10409-4
Open DOI
The anatomy of the intolerable: atrophy of moral astonishment in medicine
05
DOI 10.1007/s11019-026-10406-7
Open DOI
From application to reciprocity: Merleau-Ponty and what it means for physicians to philosophize
Philosophy in medicine is often described through application: philosophical concepts are brought to bear on illness, clinical relationships, ethics, or education. Yet this language can obscure forms of inquiry in which clinical experien...
06
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DOI 10.1007/s11019-026-10400-z
Open DOI
AI and the human factor in healthcare
08
DOI 10.1007/s11019-026-10405-8
Open DOI
The harm that wasn’t: moral residue, near-miss events, and the ethics of harmless error in procedural medicine
A surgeon performing a retroperitoneal procedure inadvertently begins dissecting the wrong kidney. The error is recognized intraoperatively, the correct structure is identified, and the procedure is completed successfully. The patient su...
09
DOI 10.1007/s11019-026-10401-y
Open DOI
No appeal to moral status required: rethinking the argument for the moral advantage of stem cell-based embryo models in research
Stem Cell-Based Embryo Models (SCBEMs) have been welcomed enthusiastically because they would allow the study of specific phases of human embryonic development without resorting to embryos produced in vitro. This enthusiasm is based on t...
10
DOI 10.1007/s11019-026-10402-x
Open DOI
Beyond Cure: Care as Medicine’s Constitutive End and the Limits of a Cure-Centered Account
Bibliographical & Catalog Notes
Also issued online.
Official journal of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care.
v. 7, no. 7 (1998)20000831 Notice published Printed on acid-free paper