BioSocieties

Aims & Scope

This journal is committed to the scholarly exploration of the crucial social, ethical and policy implications of developments in the life sciences and biomedicine.

The journal illuminates important intellectual issues at the science-society interface, and offers pathways to the resolution of critical local, national and global socio-political challenges that arise from scientific and biomedical advances.

The first journal of its kind, BioSocieties publishes articles, response pieces, book reviews, and self-standing editorials that span the social science disciplines, and present a lively and balanced array of perspectives on controversial issues.

The journal breaks disciplinary boundaries within the social sciences and humanities, and between these disciplines and the natural sciences, to develop new ways of thinking about the relations between the life sciences and society.

International in scope, the journal examines new research and developments in all corners of the globe.

Demonstrating the constructive potential of interdisciplinary dialogue and debate across the social and natural sciences, this is the journal of choice not only for social scientists, but also for life scientists interested in the larger social, ethical and policy implications of their work.

BioSocieties provides a crucial forum in which the most rigorous social research and critical analysis of contemporary issues can intersect with the work of leading scientists, social researchers, clinicians, regulators and other stakeholders.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.8
2024	1.30

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.524

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	11079

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	183

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Medicine and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Biopower Today

  Citation: 902

  Authors: Paul, Nikolas

• Are RCTs the Gold Standard?

  Citation: 408

  Authors: Nancy

• Food as exposure: Nutritional epigenetics and the new metabolism

  Citation: 378

  Authors: Hannah

• Data for life: Wearable technology and the design of self-care

  Citation: 330

  Authors: Natasha Dow

• ‘First World Health Care at Third World Prices’: Globalization, Bioethics and Medical Tourism

  Citation: 246

  Authors: Leigh

• The Cerebral Subject and the Challenge of Neurodiversity

  Citation: 231

  Authors: Francisco

• The Political Economy of Hope: Patients’ Organizations, Science and Biovalue

  Citation: 224

  Authors: Carlos

• Epigenetics: Embedded bodies and the molecularisation of biography and milieu

  Citation: 217

  Authors: Jörg

• Evidence-based activism: Patients’, users’ and activists’ groups in knowledge society

  Citation: 198

  Authors: Vololona, Tiago, Madeleine

• White opioids: Pharmaceutical race and the war on drugs that wasn’t

  Citation: 192

  Authors: Julie, Helena

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