Every issue of AJOB contains peer-reviewed Target Articles that zero in on tough questions, answered by Open Commentary articles from scholars across disciplines and cultures. The American Journal of Bioethics provides an authoritative, annotated conversation that has been used by judges, Senators, journalists, scholars, schoolteachers, and millions of others as the key source on thousands of topics in the health sciences.

 

AJOB leads the way in bioethics publishing. Hundreds of thousands more readers have discovered bioethics through InFocus articles and other features of bioethics.net. Our readers include faculty and students at virtually every graduate and professional school in the world, thousands of elected officials and judges, and most health news journalists. The American Journal of Bioethics has followed through on the innovative vision that built bioethics: serious discussion of the social implications of biomedicine.

2010 Journal Citations Report® ranks The American Journal of Bioethics 1st out of 36 journals in History & Philosophy of Science; 1st out of 38 journals in Ethics; 1st out of 35 journals in Social Issues; and 1st out of 33 journals in Biomedical Social Issues, with an Impact Factor of 3.986.
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All author-initiated manuscripts submitted to the American Journal of Bioethics undergo rigorous peer review consisting of initial editorial screening and anonymous double-blind review by two or more referees.