Bioethics Resources for Bioethics Researchers

• Publishing in Bioethics
• Bioethics Journals
• Granting Agencies

Publishing in Bioethics

Bioethics is inter-disciplinary, including lawyers, philosophers, physicians, scientific researchers, and other health professionals. Original research in bioethics is therefore published in the journals of these disciplines, as well as in specialized bioethics journals. Depending on your audience, you may want to aim your research in different places. In general, the largest readership is to be found through the top-ranked general medical journals. However, this does not mean that the best bioethics scholarship is to be found in such journals - their severe space restrictions often reduce the depth of argument that is possible.

Bioethics Journals

This a list of bioethics journals grouped by region. Bioethics research is also published in scientific and medical journals, law journals and philosophy journals. All the journals listed are peer-reviewed, unless otherwise indicated. If you are pursuing an academic career be wary about publishing in journals that do not send out submissions for peer review.

World

• Bioethics (Language: English, Subscription required, HINARI access)
• Developing World Bioethics (Language: English, Subscription required, HINARI access) - Through subscription to Bioethics
• Neuroethics (Language: English, Open access) - Free in 2008 and 2009
• Nursing Ethics (Language: English, Subscription required, HINARI access)

Africa

• South African Journal of Bioethics and Law (Language: English, Open access)

Asia

• Asian Bioethics Review (Language: English, Open access) - 3 month delay before open access
• Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics (Language: English, Open access)
• Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (Language: English, Open Access) - formerly Issues in Medical Ethics

Australasia

• Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (Language: English, Subscription required, HINARI access)
• Monash Bioethics Review (Language: English, Subscription required)

Europe

• Bioethica Forum (Languages: English, German, French, Subscription required)
• BMC Medical Ethics (Language: English, Open access, HINARI access)
• Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (Language: English, Subscription required, HINARI access)
• Ethik in der Medizin (Language: German, Subscription required)
• Journal International de Bioethique (Language: French, Subscription required)
• Journal of Medical Ethics (Language: English, Subscription required, HINARI access)
• Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy (Language: English, Subscription required)
• Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (Language: English, Subscription required)
• Zeitschrift für Medizinische Ethik (Language: German, Subscription required)

Latin America

• Revista Colombiana de Bioética (Language: Spanish, Subscription required)
• Revista de Bioética y Derecho (Language: Spanish, Open Access)
• Acta Bioethica (Language: Spanish, Open Access)

North America (USA and Canada)

• American Journal of Bioethics (Language: English, Subscription required)
• BioethiqueOnline (Language: English, French, Open access)
• The Hastings Center Report (Language: English, Subscription required)
• Journal of Clinical Ethics (Language: English, Subscription required)
• The Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics (JERHRE) (Language: English, Subscription required, HINARI access)
• The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics (Language: English, Subscription required, HINARI access)
• Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (Language: English, Subscription required)
• Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal (Language: English, Subscription required)
• IRB: Ethics & Human Research (Language: English, Subscription required)

Granting Agencies

• The European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership provides "capacity development grants in ethics to support the establishment, strengthening and operations of national ethics committees and institutional review boards" to countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Grant schemes are advertised on their website.

Updated January 2, 2024