Table 1 Journals selected with year the journal was launched, publisher, location of editorial office and impact factor 2004

Bioethics

1987

Blackwell Publishers

United Kingdom

0.887

Cambridge quaterly of healthcare ethics

1992

Cambridge University Press

United States

/

Christian bioethics

1995

Swets & Zeitlinger

United States

/

Hastings Center Report

1971

The Hastings Center

United States

1.086

Journal of clinical ethics

1990

University Publishing Group

United States

/

Journal of medical ethics

1975

Professional and scientific publications

United Kingdom

1,353

Kennedy Institute of Ethics journal

1991

John Hopkins University Press

United States

/

Nursing Ethics

1994

Arnold

United Kingdom

0.526

Theoretical medicine and bioethics

(continuation of Theoretical medicine,

that was before Metamedicine)

1979

Kluwer Academic Publishers

The Netherlands

/