AJOB Empirical Bioethics is an international journal publishing empirical research in bioethics, including conceptual and ethical analyses.
AJOB Empirical Bioethics is a peer-reviewed sister publication to the American Journal of Bioethics.
The journal provides a forum for empirically informed scholarship in bioethics. AJOB Empirical Bioethicsbroadly construes empirical bioethics to include social scientific research applied to bioethical questions, health policy and health services research as it relates to bioethics, and other forms of original research.
Areas of interest include:
- conceptual analyses of the role of empirical research in bioethics
- discussions of empirical methods and how they “fit” with ethical discourse
- ethical analyses and/or critiques of empirical research and research methodology
The journalwelcomes submissions that employ quantitative, qualitative, or mixed empirical methods from the broad range of disciplines relevant to bioethics inquiry. When in doubt, authors are encouraged to contact the Editor-in-Chief about whether a proposed manuscript is consistent with the journal’s mission.
The journal operates a double-anonymized peer review policy.
You can discover more about bioethics and the AJOB family through bioethics.net, which publishes InFocus articles, current news, and other features on emerging issues in bioethics.
Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.
Read the Instructions for Authors for information on how to submit your article.
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