The journal provides a forum for empirically informed scholarship in bioethics. AJOB Empirical Bioethicsbroadly construes empirical bioethics to include social scientific research applied to bioethical questions, health policy and health services research as it relates to bioethics, and other forms of original research.
Areas of interest include:
conceptual analyses of the role of empirical research in bioethics
discussions of empirical methods and how they “fit” with ethical discourse
ethical analyses and/or critiques of empirical research and research methodology
The journalwelcomes submissions that employ quantitative, qualitative, or mixed empirical methods from the broad range of disciplines relevant to bioethics inquiry. When in doubt, authors are encouraged to contact the Editor-in-Chief about whether a proposed manuscript is consistent with the journal’s mission.
The journal operates a double-anonymized peer review policy.
You can discover more about bioethics and the AJOB family through bioethics.net, which publishes InFocus articles, current news, and other features on emerging issues in bioethics.
Journal metrics
Usage
43K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
3.9 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.669 (2023) SNIP
0.463 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
57 days avg. from submission to first
decision
14 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
40% acceptance rate
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Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year
and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated
annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of
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Usage:
the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users
of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the
nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles published in the
journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources
Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation
Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal
within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
Aaron Goldenberg, PhD, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Vasiliki Rahimzadeh, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Connie M. Ulrich, PhD, RN, FAAN - University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing, USA
Jennifer Young, PhD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Editorial Board Paul Appelbaum, MD, Columbia University, USA Mildred Cho, PhD, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, USA Chris Feudtner, MD, PhD, MPH, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA Richard Ittenbach, PhD, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, USA Barbara Koenig , PhD, University of California, San Francisco, USA Alexander A. Kon, MD, Naval Medical Center, San Diego, USA Victoria A. Miller, PhD, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA Larry McCullough, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, USA Amy McGuire, JD, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, USA Robert M. Nelson, MD, PhD, Johnson & Johnson, USA Henry S. Richardson, JD, MPP, PhD, Georgetown University, USA Laura Siminoff , PhD, Temple University, USA Jeremy Sugarman, MD, MPH, MA, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, USA Holly Taylor, MPH, PhD, National Institutes of Health, USA Peter A. Ubel, MD, Duke University, USA
Abstracting and indexing
AJOB Empirical Bioethics is currently abstracted and/or indexed in: Academic Search Complete; CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature); Health Policy Reference Center; TOC Premier; and MEDLINE.
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