Christian Bioethics

Aims & Scope

Christian Bioethics is a non-ecumenical, interdenominational journal, exploring the Christian faiths with regard to the meaning of human life, sexuality, suffering, illness, and death within the context of medicine and health care.

Christian Bioethics seeks not to gloss over the differences among the Christian faiths, but rather to underscore the content-full moral commitments that separate and give moral substance.

It is interdenominational in involving editors and inviting contributions from different Christian perspectives.

The Journal will seek to be fresh, novel, critical, and controversial by taking the content of Christianity seriously, while frankly assessing how different Christian faiths and different policies authentically realize that content with respect to bioethical issues.

This non-ecumenical approach to Christian bioethics, guided by the usual secular scholarly standards, offers a forum for the extended and vigorous exploration of issues at the interface of theology, moral theory, and health care.

Within the framework of traditional Christian moral commitments, contemporary bioethical and health care policy issues will be examined, such as abortion, the allocation of scarce resources, the character of appropriate hospital chaplaincy, fetal experimentation, fetal tissue in treatment, genetic engineering, the use of critical care units, differences between ordinary and extraordinary treatment, euthanasia, free and informed consent, competency determinations, the meaning of mental illness, the significance of pain, suffering, death, and third-party assisted reproduction.

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Metrics & Ranking

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	14370

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	33

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.377

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	12

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2024	0.20

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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 Arts and Humanities and Medicine, 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.

• The Recent History of Christian Bioethics Critically Reassessed

  Citation: 19

  Authors: H. T.

• Biopsychosociospiritual Medicine and Other Political Schemes

  Citation: 18

  Authors: J. P.

• Tube Feedings and Persistent Vegetative State Patients: Ordinary or Extraordinary Means?

  Citation: 17

  Authors: S. J. Rev. Peter

• Generic Chaplaincy: Providing Spiritual Care in a Post-Christian Age

  Citation: 15

  Authors: H. T.

• Commentary on the Concept of Brain Death within the Catholic Bioethical Framework

  Citation: 14

  Authors: J. L., M.

• The Dechristianization of Christian Hospital Chaplaincy: Some Bioethics Reflections on Professionalization, Ecumenization, and Secularization

  Citation: 14

  Authors: H. T.

• Prolonging Life or Hindering Death? An Orthodox Perspective on Death, Dying and Euthanasia

  Citation: 14

  Authors: N.

• Catholic Hospitals and Catholic Identity

  Citation: 13

  Authors: K.

• Sex, Abortion, and Infanticide: The Gulf between the Secular and the Divine

  Citation: 12

  Authors: M. J.

• The Explanatory Power of the Substance View of Persons

  Citation: 12

  Authors: F. J.

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