American Journal of Bioethics

American Journal of Bioethics

Infobox Journal


discipline = Bioethics, Philosophy
abbreviated_title = noeffect
abbreviation = AJOB
publisher = Taylor and Francis
country = UK
publication_history = noeffect
history = 1999-Present
website = http://bioethics.net
ISSN = 1526-5161
eISSN = 1536-0075
OCLC = 42279301The American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB), founded in 1999, is a peer reviewed journal published by Taylor and Francis. [ American Journal of Bioethics website (Updated 10 February 2006) [http://www.bioethics.net/information.php?infoCat=faq&infoId=1] ] This journal publishes 12 issues each year, and is available both in print and on the internet. Its mission is described as to "provide the clinical, legal, academic, scientific, religious and broad community-at-large with a rapid but comprehensive debate of issues in bioethics." It has a "further goal...to inspire and inform research and writing across disciplines, through target articles, peer commentary, book reviews, qualitative research, literary criticism, photography and graphic arts, and comments on developments in law and medical science." [ American Journal of Bioethics website (Updated 14 July 2004) [http://www.bioethics.net/information.php?infoCat=faq&infoId=9] ] According to the Journal Citation Reports for 2007, the journal ranks 1st out of 37 journals in History and Philosophy of Science (Science), 1st out of 7 journals in Medical Ethics (science), and 1st out of 28 journals in Ethics (social science), 1st out of 32 in Social Issues (social science), and 1st out of 28 in Social Sciences, Biomedical (social science) with an Impact Factor of 3.934. [Journal Citation Reports, accessed July 17, 2008]

In 2007, the Chief Editor is Glenn McGee of the Alden March Bioethics Institute, and Albany Medical Center. The Associate Editors are David Magnus of Stanford University and Paul Root Wolpe of the University of Pennsylvania.

Submissions to the American Journal of Bioethics are screened by the editors and blind peer reviewed by at least two referees before being accepted for publication. [American Journal of Bioethics, Taylor and Francis website (24 June 2007) [http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/15265161.asp] ]

Subscribers also regularly receive information about university bioethics programmes, job vacancies, news reports, bioethics conferences and other related material.

References

External links

* American Journal of Bioethics website [http://bioethics.net]
* American Journal of Bioethics: Back issues Ingentaconnect [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/ajob]
* American Journal of Bioethics: Publishers information, Taylor and Francis [http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/15265161.asp]


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