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Clinical Ethics
H-index 5

Clinical Ethics

1477-7509

Published by: SAGE

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Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 968 11 12 5

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 21
Documents by Best Scientists*: 20
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 2
SCIMAGO H-index: 23
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.282
Impact Factor: N/A

Overview

Top Research Topics at Clinical Ethics?

Clinical Ethics, Law, Health care, Nursing and Family medicine are the subjects of interest in the journal. The research on Clinical Ethics featured in the journal combines topics in other fields like Psychiatry, Informed consent and Medical education. Specifically, studies on Best interests are prevalent in the Law works discussed.

In it, Autonomy, Bioethics, Social psychology and Public relations are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Health care research.

  • Clinical Ethics (19.22%)
  • Law (18.38%)
  • Health care (15.18%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The zone of parental discretion: An ethical tool for dealing with disagreement between parents and doctors about medical treatment for a child (97 citations)
  • Beyond individualism: Is there a place for relational autonomy in clinical practice and research?: (87 citations)
  • What's in a name? : subjects, volunteers, participants and activists in clinical research (33 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Clinical Ethics:

The published articles cover a variety of subjects, including Social psychology, Health care, Clinical Ethics, Autonomy and Psychiatry. While Social psychology is the focus of the published papers, it also provides insights into the studies of Epistemology, Perception and Best interests. The published articles focus on Health care but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Nursing, Context (language use) and Paradigm shift.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Law
  • Internal medicine
  • Epistemology

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Clinical Ethics mainly deals with areas of study such as Nursing, Clinical Ethics, Health care, 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak and Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The studies on Nursing discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Quality (business), Moral distress and Intensive care unit. The presented research on Moral distress deals specifically with Distress but it also addresses topics in Affect (psychology).

Clinical Ethics addresses concerns in the field of Clinical Ethics by exploring it in line with topics in Informed consent which intersect with Family medicine subjects. The Health care study featured in Clinical Ethics draws connections with the study of Ethical issues. The work on Medical emergency tackled in the journal brings together disciplines like Intensive care and Public health.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • The legal ambiguity of advanced assistive bionic prosthetics: Where to define the limits of ‘enhanced persons’ in medical treatment: (2 citations)
  • Moral sensitivity and moral distress correlation in nurses caring of patients with spinal cord injury (1 citations)
  • Workplace silence behavior and its consequences on nurses: A new Egyptian validation scale of nursing motives: (1 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Clinical Ethics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Heather Draper (16 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • José Miola (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Bobbie Farsides (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Sara Fovargue (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Gert Helgesson (11 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Clinical Ethics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • King's College London (28 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Leicester (23 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Manchester (21 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Bristol (19 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Brighton and Sussex Medical School (19 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 9.21% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 4.35% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 8.70% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 24.64% of all publications and 62.32% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Ethical conflicts in patient-centred care:

    Sven Ove Hansson;Barbro Fröding

    (2020)
    26 Citations
  • A lay perspective on prioritization for intensive care in pandemic times: Vaccination status matters

    (2021)
    12 Citations
  • Living bioethics, theories and children’s consent to heart surgery

    (2022)
    7 Citations
  • Bodily integrity and autonomy of the youngest children and consent to their healthcare

    (2023)
    6 Citations
  • Living bioethics, clinical ethics committees and children's consent to heart surgery:

    Priscilla Alderson;Deborah Bowman;Joe Brierley;Martin J. Elliott

    (2021)
    5 Citations
  • Validation of simple dichotomous self-report on prenatal alcohol and other drug use in women attending midwife obstetric units in the Cape Metropole, South Africa:

    Petal Petersen Williams;Petal Petersen Williams;Catherine Mathews;Catherine Mathews;Esmé Jordaan;Esmé Jordaan;Yukiko Washio

    (2020)
    3 Citations
  • Rationing health and social goods during pandemics: Guidance for Ghanaian decision makers

    Amos Laar;Debra DeBruin;Richard Ofori-Asenso;Richard Ofori-Asenso;Matilda Essandoh Laar

    (2021)
    3 Citations
  • The role of emotions in Moral Case Deliberation: Visions and experiences of facilitators:

    Benita Spronk;Guy Widdershoven;Hans Alma

    (2021)
    2 Citations
  • Psychiatry as a vocation: Moral injury, COVID-19, and the phenomenology of clinical practice

    (2023)
    1 Citations
  • Tackling the COVID elective surgical backlog: Prioritising need, benefit or equality?

    (2023)
    0 Citations

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