Utilitas

Aims & Scope

Utilitas is one of the leading international journals in ethics, offering high quality research in all aspects of the development of utilitarian thought and in all areas in which utilitarianism has made a contribution.

As a pioneering, interdisciplinary journal, Utilitas will be of interest not only to moral philosophers but also to economists, political theorists, intellectual historians and legal theorists.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1
2024	1.20

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.649

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	31

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	8856

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	104

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Abstracting & Indexing

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

• Scopus
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• 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 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.

• Astronomical Waste: The Opportunity Cost of Delayed Technological Development

  Citation: 142

  Authors: Nick

• When Utilitarians Should Be Virtue Theorists

  Citation: 137

  Authors: DALE

• A Fresh Start for the Objective-List Theory of Well-Being

  Citation: 125

  Authors: GUY

• Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, ed. Anne Cohler, Basia Miller and Harold Stone, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989, pp. xlviii + 757. - Benjamin Constant, Political Writings, ed. Biancamaria Fontana, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp. x + 350. - Thomas Paine, Political Writings, ed. Bruce Kuklick, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989, pp. xxiv + 260.

  Citation: 111

  Authors:

• The Prospects for Sufficientarianism

  Citation: 105

  Authors: LIAM

• Does ‘Ought’ Imply ‘Can’? And Did Kant Think It Does?

  Citation: 86

  Authors: ROBERT

• Conceptions of Cosmopolitanism

  Citation: 81

  Authors: Samuel

• Another Defence of the Priority View

  Citation: 71

  Authors: DEREK

• Diderot, Political Writings, ed. John Hope Mason and Robert Wokler, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. xli + 225. - Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population, ed Donald Winch, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. xxxiii + 392. - Price, Political Writings, ed. D. O. Thomas, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. xxiv + 199.

  Citation: 67

  Authors:

• The Doctrine of Sufficiency: A Defence

  Citation: 65

  Authors: YITZHAK

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