The Hastings Center Report is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal of bioethics. It is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Hastings Center (Garrison, New York). The editor-in-chief is Gregory Kaebnick. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 4.298. In 2018, it ranked it 5th out of 16 journals in the category "Medical Ethics".[1]
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| Discipline | Bioethics, philosophy, ethics, humanities, health policy, health law, religious studies |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Gregory Kaebnick |
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| History | 1971-present |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell (United States) |
| Frequency | Bimonthly |
| 4.298 (2021) | |
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| ISO 4 | Hastings Cent. Rep. |
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| ISSN | 0093-0334 (print) 1552-146X (web) |
| LCCN | 2004-212569 |
| JSTOR | 00930334 |
| OCLC no. | 15622366 |
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The journal focuses on legal, moral, and social issues in medicine and the life sciences.[2] It publishes a variety of article types that may take many forms:[3]
- articles that explore philosophical and ethical issues in medicine, health care, technology, medical research, the use of human subjects in research, and the environment
- reports or reviews of empirical studies that implicate relevant philosophical and ethical questions
- short, provocative essays; case studies (which may be accompanied by commentary on the case)
- personal narratives about receiving or providing health care
- and brief commentary on relevant events in the news
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Medical Ethics". 2018 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2017.
- ^ About the Hastings Center Report – www.thehastingscenter.org
- ^ "Submission Guidelines – www.thehastingscenter.org". Archived from the original on 2009-07-04. Retrieved 2009-10-10.