BiomedicalPublications

Research Ethics

SAGE Publishing·United Kingdom·ISSN 1747-0161

Open accessIn DOAJFee waivers availableMedicine

Cost to publish

$500

Open-access article processing charge, list price.

Time to publication

15 wks

Broadly typical for the field.

h-index

38

OpenAlex citation statistic. Not a Journal Impact Factor.

2-year mean citedness

3.4

Average citations to articles from the previous two years.

What it costs to publish here

Publishing an open-access article in Research Ethics is listed at $500. The journal reports that fee waivers are available — worth pursuing if you are funding this yourself or working from a lower-income country.

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What this journal has charged over time

List price for an open-access article in Research Ethics, as recorded by OpenAlex for each year.

$0$250$5002019: $020192020: $020202021: $020212022: $020222023: $020232024: $5002024

Publishers change list prices without notice and often apply discounts, institutional agreements or waivers. Treat this as the trend, and confirm the current figure with the journal.

Peer review and licensing

Review modelDouble anonymous peer review (policy)
LicenceCC BY, CC BY-NC
Author keeps copyrightNo
Plagiarism screeningYes
Editorial boardPublished →
LanguagesEN

Verification checks

8 of 8 confirmed

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  • Listed in the Directory of Open Access JournalsDOAJ applies a documented set of inclusion criteria.
  • Included in OpenAlex's curated core setOpenAlex flags well-established venues that appear across major indexes.
  • Peer review model publicly declaredDouble anonymous peer review
  • Publication charges stated up frontA journal that will not tell you the fee before submission is worth a second look.
  • Screens submissions for plagiarismReported to DOAJ by the journal.
  • Participates in a digital preservation schemeArchiving means the record survives if the publisher does not.
  • Assigns persistent identifiers (DOIs)Standard practice; its absence is unusual.
  • Still actively publishingMost recent indexed article: 2026.

Scope

The subjects Research Ethics publishes most, derived from the topics assigned to its indexed articles.

Ethics in Clinical ResearchEthics in medical practiceBiomedical Ethics and RegulationAcademic integrity and plagiarismQualitative Research Methods and EthicsHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of LifeEthics and Legal Issues in Pediatric HealthcareArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare and EducationFocus Groups and Qualitative MethodsMental Health and Patient Involvement

Publication record

Indexed articles866
Total citations8,002
i10-index196
Most recent indexed article2026
Open access since2018
All ISSNs1747-0161, 2047-6094

Counts reflect what OpenAlex has indexed and will differ from the publisher's own figures. We do not show a founding year: OpenAlex's first-publication dates are distorted by mis-dated records — it puts PLoS ONE in 1806 — and we would rather omit a number than print one we cannot stand behind.