Impact Factor
2.61
Journal Citation Impact
Estimated influence, citation density, publishing volume, and citation integrity from the analytics table.
Citation rate
1.63
86 total citations
h5-index
12
h5 depth signal
Cited share
59.6%
31 of 52
Total citations
86
Citation footprint
Metric signal
1.81
External metric anchor
Self-citation
14.0%
12 self-citations
Citations Trend
Monthly Publications Cadence
Citing Geographic Demographics
Australia
75
United States
57
United Kingdom
34
Canada
12
Belgium
8
Citing Fields of Research
Medical Ethics
130
Philosophy
64
Healthcare Policy
21
Palliative Care
17
Law & Legal Studies
16
Publishing Activity & Reach
Volume, recency, access pattern, and citing-community signals from the journal analytics record.
All-time article footprint
637
Articles tracked across the journal lifetime
Indexed publication set
52
31 cited publications
Last 12 months
46
3.8 publications/month
Open access share
58.7%
27 OA publications in the last year
Leading citing country
Australia
75 citing publications
Leading citing field
Medical Ethics
130 citing publications
Latest tracked publication
18 September 2026
10 recent records available
Coverage & Indexing History
v26n1, Jan 2007-
v26n1, Jan 2007-
Research Focus & Classification
Indexed Subjects
Medical Ethics
Philosophy
Transplantation
Palliative Care
Healthcare Policy
Issuing & Sponsoring Bodies
Contributor
Monash University. Centre for Human Bioethics
Broad Categories
Ethics
Medical Ethics
Philosophy
Antibiotic & Antibacterial Agents
Virology
Transplantation
Palliative Care
MeSH Descriptors
Bioethics
Latest Publications
Recent article records with DOI-first linking and condensed abstracts.
01
DOI 10.1007/s40592-026-00312-2
Open DOI
‘If we give false hope, we just harm patients’: Researchers’ experiences of moral responsibility and care in translational neurodegenerative disease research
The translation of basic neurodegenerative disease research into early-phase human studies raises ethical questions that extend beyond traditional assessments of risk and benefit. This study explores how researchers themselves experience...
02
DOI 10.1007/s40592-026-00311-3
Open DOI
The Line in the Heart: Complicity, Utility, and the Ethics of Tainted Data
The bioethics literature on “tainted data” (medical knowledge produced through atrocity) has largely settled one question: such data may be used, if at all, only with explicit condemnation of the methods that produced it. It has left a s...
03
DOI 10.1007/s40592-026-00309-x
Open DOI
The compensation issue for covid-19 vaccines in Türkiye: ethical and legal assessment
04
DOI 10.1007/s40592-026-00301-5
Open DOI
Power, privilege and moral responsibility: learning from I.M. Young's Social Connection Model in the context of AI-driven healthcare
Artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare is assumed to introduce risks that are not easily addressed by dominant philosophical models for thinking about responsibility. When an AI tool makes an error that results in patient harm, the q...
05
DOI 10.1007/s40592-026-00308-y
Open DOI
Beyond diagnostic fixation: a multidimensional framework for health and longitudinal viability
06
DOI 10.1007/s40592-026-00304-2
Open DOI
Riley Clare Valentine and Zane McNeill: The Coercive Power of the Law: Vulnerable Bodies and Boundaries of Perception
07
DOI 10.1007/s40592-026-00302-4
Open DOI
Parents in the making: A critical encounter between bioethical theory and “Homegrown” accounts of moral parenthood
In this paper, we explore questions of moral parenthood by setting up a critical encounter between accounts developed by bioethicists and the perspectives of prospective PACT (Pre-conception Agreement-Based Co-parenting Together-apart) p...
08
DOI 10.1007/s40592-026-00303-3
Open DOI
The second patient: family suffering and the ethics of dependency in later life
09
DOI 10.1007/s40592-026-00305-1
Open DOI
Compounding advantage: Medical AI and structural injustice
10
DOI 10.1007/s40592-026-00306-0
Open DOI
Structuring access and responsibility in transfusion refusal: a document analysis of relative non-transfusion policies in Japan
Refusal of blood transfusion is often framed as a conflict between competent patients’ refusal and clinicians’ responsibility to prevent death or serious harm. In Japan, many hospitals have adopted relative non-transfusion policies, whic...
Bibliographical & Catalog Notes
Includes a section called: Ethics Committee supplement.
Description based on: Vol. 20, no. 2 (Apr. 2001); title from cover.
Also issued online.