Impact Factor
2.64
Journal Citation Impact
Estimated influence, citation density, publishing volume, and citation integrity from the analytics table.
Citation rate
1.03
308 total citations
h5-index
23
h5 depth signal
Cited share
45.0%
135 of 300
Total citations
308
Citation footprint
Metric signal
1.06
External metric anchor
Self-citation
4.2%
13 self-citations
Citations Trend
Monthly Publications Cadence
Citing Geographic Demographics
United States
769
Canada
57
United Kingdom
43
Netherlands
16
Australia
15
Citing Fields of Research
Medical Ethics
477
Healthcare Policy
348
Law & Legal Studies
279
Patient Care
92
Political Science & International Relations
84
Publishing Activity & Reach
Volume, recency, access pattern, and citing-community signals from the journal analytics record.
All-time article footprint
2,956
Articles tracked across the journal lifetime
Indexed publication set
300
135 cited publications
Last 12 months
109
9.9 publications/month
Open access share
65.1%
71 OA publications in the last year
Leading citing country
United States
769 citing publications
Leading citing field
Medical Ethics
477 citing publications
Latest tracked publication
19 October 2026
10 recent records available
Coverage & Indexing History
v21n1, spring 1993-
v21n1, spring 1993-
v21n1, spring 1993-v24n4, winter 1996
Research Focus & Classification
Indexed Subjects
Medical Ethics
Law & Legal Studies
Healthcare Policy
Scientometrics & Research Ethics
Issuing & Sponsoring Bodies
Contributor
American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics
Contributor
International Conference on Health Law & Ethics
Broad Categories
Ethics
Jurisprudence
Medicine
Medical Ethics
Law & Legal Studies
Healthcare Policy
Reproductive Health
Anthropology
MeSH Descriptors
Delivery of Health Care
Ethics, Medical
Jurisprudence
Legislation, Medical
Medicine
Nursing
Latest Publications
Recent article records with DOI-first linking and condensed abstracts.
01
DOI 10.1017/jme.2026.10288
Open DOI
Navigating Health Information Sharing to Address Social Needs: Practice, Research, and Policy Recommendations from Hospital-Based Violence Intervention
Hospital-based violence intervention programs (HVIPs) help survivors of violent injury to return to physical, psychological, financial, and social health by addressing a broad range of social determinants of health and reducing the risk ...
02
DOI 10.1017/jme.2026.10293
Open DOI
The Impact of Semantics in Medicines Regulation
Words can have inherently multiple meanings; therefore, semantics can directly impact policies and behaviours. In regulatory practice, semantics refers to the specific, actionable meaning behind terminology, and attention to semantics ca...
03
DOI 10.1017/jme.2026.10285
Open DOI
Commentary on “Ethical and Legal Dilemmas in Prolonged Physiologic Support After Brain Death in Previable Pregnancy”
This commentary provides context and commentary on the article by April Dworetz et al., “Ethical and Legal Dilemmas in Prolonged Physiologic Support after Brain Death in Previable Pregnancy,” The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (2026).
04
DOI 10.1017/jme.2026.10283
Open DOI
Should Medicine and Public Health Abandon the Opioid Industry’s Terminology Surrounding Pain? An Argument for Conceptual Reclamation and Against Guilt-By-Provenance
Kaspari, Butler, and Fugh-Berman document how opioid manufacturers created or redefined terms such as opiophobia , breakthrough pain , pain as the fifth vital sign , and pseudoaddiction to expand opioid prescribing. Their account is accu...
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DOI 10.1017/jme.2026.10282
Open DOI
New Ethical Frameworks for Health Care Are Needed to Reckon with the Expansion of AI
Existing consent-based legal and ethical frameworks assume a level of human involvement, predictability, and understanding that may not be present in applications of AI in health care. New frameworks are necessary to ensure that core eth...
06
DOI 10.1017/jme.2026.10281
Open DOI
Additional Ethical, Legal, and Social Considerations for Clinicians Navigating a Difficult Relationship with a Patient’s Surrogate Decision-Maker
This commentary highlights additional considerations for clinicians encountering substitute decision-makers who want to make different decisions than the healthcare or ethics team thinks an incapacitated patient would have made. This com...
07
DOI 10.1017/jme.2026.10280
Open DOI
What We Don’t Know Can Hurt: Ignorance Creation and Involuntary Commitment Data Initiatives
In “Minding the Gap: The Absence of Pennsylvania’s Involuntary Commitment Data,” Gluckman et al. draw on agnotology and undone science to argue that unreported information about psychiatric commitments results in the disenfranchisement o...
08
DOI 10.1017/jme.2026.10278
Open DOI
All Restrained Patients Are Not the Same
This commentary offers a critique of the public health approach to hospital restraints proposed by Coyne and McDougall. While acknowledging the merits of their model, specifically its emphasis on protecting third parties, this commentary...
09
DOI 10.1017/jme.2026.10277
Open DOI
Commentary on “Body and Soul: How Neuroimaging Should Revise Tort Perspectives on PTSD”
In “Body and Soul: How Neuroimaging Should Revise Tort Perspectives on PTSD,” author Alexandra Midler addresses head-on the old distinction in law between physical and emotional injury. Midler correctly notes that tort law has traditiona...
10
DOI 10.1017/jme.2026.10276
Open DOI
AI Longevity and the Law of Time Justice
This commentary responds to Truby and Kantiana’s exploration of an international human right to an AI-extended lifespan. It argues that framing longevity as an individual technological entitlement risks converting time itself into a luxu...
Bibliographical & Catalog Notes
Quarterly.
Title from cover.
Issues for spring 1993- contain the Proceedings of the 3rd- International Conference on Health Law & Ethics, 1992-
Supplements accompany some issues.
Also issued online.