The Journal of Medical Ethics (JME) is a leading international journal that reflects the whole field of medical ethics. The journal seeks to promote ethical reflection and conduct in scientific research and medical practice. It features original articles on ethical aspects of health care, as well as case conferences, book reviews, editorials, correspondence, news and notes. To ensure international relevance JME has Editorial Board members from all around the world including the US, Europe, Australasia and Far East.

The Journal of Medical Ethics (JME) aims at being the pre-eminent medical ethics journal with high quality articles relevant to all those interested in medical ethics, particularly to health care professionals, medical ethics professionals, researchers and bioscientists, policy makers and patients.

We welcome original papers form any part of the world, from all philosophical traditions and approaches, as well as interesting empirical studies.

Papers should be written in a non-specialist language and should ideally be readable by any well informed individual, in particular by both the non-philosophically trained health care professional and the philosopher with no practical health care experience. For our part The Editors will:

1. Ensure that all important issues in medical ethics are welcome in the journal.
2. Ensure that a fair, independent peer review system is in place.
3. Adhere to the highest ethical standards concerning editorial and research conduct.

Please click here to view the Impact Factor.

1. Median time from submission to first decision = 6 weeks
   1. 15% of papers rejected without external peer review within 1 week
2. Time from acceptance to publication = 4 months