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Announcement
Announcing the launch of In Review
BMC Medical Ethics, in partnership with Research Square, is now offering In Review. Authors choosing this free optional service will be able to:
- Share their work with fellow researchers to read, comment on, and cite even before publication
- Showcase their work to funders and others with a citable DOI while it is still under review
- Track their manuscript - including seeing when reviewers are invited, and when reports are received
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Featured Blog: Editor's Highlights 2018
2018 was an exciting year for BMC Medical Ehics, in which we published a wide range of interesting articles. Read the Editor's Pick 2018 blog to find a few of the papers worth revisiting from BMC Medical Ethics.
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Featured Article: Reuse of cardiac organs in transplantation: an ethical analysis
The ethical aspects of organ transplant surgery in which a donor heart is transplanted from a first recipient to a second recipient is explored in this study.
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Clarifying how to deploy the public interest criterion in consent waivers for health data and tissue research
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Dishonesty and research misconduct within the medical profession
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Developing a toolkit for engagement practice: sharing power with communities in priority-setting for global health research projects
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Disease awareness or subtle product placement? Orphan diseases featured in the television series “House, M.D.” - a cross-sectional analysis
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Top 10 health care ethics challenges facing the public: views of Toronto bioethicists
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The four principles: Can they be measured and do they predict ethical decision making?
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Teaching seven principles for public health ethics: towards a curriculum for a short course on ethics in public health programmes
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Implicit bias in healthcare professionals: a systematic review
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Analysis of official deceased organ donation data casts doubt on the credibility of China’s organ transplant reform
Latest collections
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Translation in healthcare: ethical, legal, and social implications
Edited by Donna Dickenson, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, and Michael Morrison
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Extending evidence-based medicine
Edited by Trisha Greenhalgh
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Driving Regenerative Medicine to the Market and Clinic: An Exploration of Enablers, Impediments and Ethical-Legal Challenges
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The Many Meanings of ‘Quality’ in Healthcare: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Edited by Deborah Swinglehurst
Aims and scope
BMC Medical Ethics is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in relation to the ethical aspects of biomedical research and clinical practice, including professional choices and conduct, medical technologies, healthcare systems and health policies.
Editor
- Anne Menard, BioMed Central
Manuscript Editor
- Cecilia Pennica, BioMed Central
Assistant Editor
- Janelle Coore, BioMed Central
Section Editors
- Yvonne Denier, University of Leuven
- Beatrice Godard, University of Montreal
- Anita Ho, University of British Columbia
- Richard Huxtable, University of Bristol
- Jonathan Ives, The University of Birmingham
- Stuart Nicholls, University of Ottawa
- Jeremy Snyder, Simon Fraser University
Anita Ho, Section Editor
Anita Ho is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Applied Ethics at University of British Columbia and an Affiliate Faculty at the University of California, San Francisco. She has been Section Editor for the 'Ethics in biomedical research' section of BMC Medical Ethics since August 2015.
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Authors submitting to this journal can opt to use a new service that will make it easier to share research data.
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Citation Impact
2.507 - 2-year Impact Factor
2.571 - 5-year Impact Factor
2.77 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.085 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
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