Monash Bioethics Review

Aims & Scope

Monash Bioethics Review provides comprehensive coverage of traditional topics and emerging issues in bioethics.

The Journal is especially concerned with empirically-informed philosophical bioethical analysis with policy relevance.

Monash Bioethics Review also regularly publishes empirical studies providing explicit ethical analysis and/or with significant ethical or policy implications.

Produced by the Monash University Centre for Human Bioethics since 1981 (originally as Bioethics News), Monash Bioethics Review is the oldest peer reviewed bioethics journal based in Australia–and one of the oldest bioethics journals in the world.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.6
2024	1.60

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.381

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	20

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	14260

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	81

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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 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.

• Human cerebral organoids and consciousness: a double-edged sword

  Citation: 55

  Authors: Andrea

• Gamete donation, information sharing and the best interests of the child: an overview of the psychosocial evidence

  Citation: 44

  Authors: Tabitha

• The creation of the Belmont Report and its effect on ethical principles: a historical study

  Citation: 38

  Authors: Hiroyuki, Eisuke, Akira

• Review of Rethinking Health Care Ethics by Stephen Scher and Kasia Kozlowska

  Citation: 36

  Authors: Samuel

• Developing and teaching the virtue-ethics foundations of healthcare whistle blowing

  Citation: 32

  Authors: Thomas

• Rendered invisible? The absent presence of egg providers in U.K. debates on the acceptability of research and therapy for mitochondrial disease

  Citation: 30

  Authors: Erica, Ken

• Rethinking “One Health” through Brucellosis: ethics, boundaries and politics

  Citation: 29

  Authors: Barak, Anat, Nadav

• Procreative beneficence and in vitro gametogenesis

  Citation: 27

  Authors: Hannah, Thomas, Julian

• The Ethics of Expectations

  Citation: 27

  Authors: Alan

• Bioconservatism, Bioliberalism, and the Wisdom of Reflecting on Repugnance

  Citation: 26

  Authors: Rebecca, Steve

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