Hastings Center Report

Aims & Scope

The Hastings Center Report explores ethical, legal, and social issues in medicine, health care, public health, and the life sciences.

Six issues per year offer articles, essays, case studies of bioethical problems, columns on law and policy, caregivers’ stories, peer-reviewed scholarly articles, and book reviews.

Authors come from an assortment of professions and academic disciplines and express a range of perspectives and political opinions.

The Report’s readership includes physicians, nurses, scholars, administrators, social workers, health lawyers, and others.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2.3
2024	2.30

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.498

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	76

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	11624

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	373

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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, Medicine, Nursing 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.

• False Hopes and Best Data: Consent to Research and the Therapeutic Misconception

  Citation: 627

  Authors: Paul S., Loren H., Charles W., Paul, William

• Artificial Intelligence and Black‐Box Medical Decisions: <i>Accuracy versus Explainability</i>

  Citation: 566

  Authors: Alex John

• Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study

  Citation: 485

  Authors: Allan M.

• Enough: The Failure of the Living Will

  Citation: 450

  Authors: Angela, Carl E.

• An Ethics Framework for a Learning Health Care System: <i>A Departure from Traditional Research Ethics and Clinical Ethics</i>

  Citation: 382

  Authors: Ruth R., Nancy E., Steven N., Peter, Sean, Tom L.

• A Critique of Clinical Equipoise: Therapeutic Misconception in the Ethics of Clinical Trials

  Citation: 277

  Authors: Franklin G., Howard

• The Dead Donor Rule

  Citation: 211

  Authors: John A.

• Dworkin on Dementia: Elegant Theory, Questionable Policy

  Citation: 210

  Authors: Rebecca

• Covid‐19: Ethical Challenges for Nurses

  Citation: 203

  Authors: Georgina, Christine, Joan, Connie M.

• Models for Ethical Medicine in a Revolutionary Age

  Citation: 202

  Authors: Robert M.

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