Skip to main content

Table 1 Number (and proportion) of empirical manuscripts published in each of the nine bioethics journals between 2004 and 2015

From: An update on the “empirical turn” in bioethics: analysis of empirical research in nine bioethics journals

Journal/ Year

JME n (%)

NE n (%)

JCE n (%)

BioE n(%)

CQ n (%)

KIB n (%)

HCR n (%)

TMB n (%)

CE n (%)

Total (%)**

2004

26 (23.2)

21 (43.8)

6 (13.6)

1 (4.0)

0 (−)

1 (4.5)

0 (−)

1 (5.6)

0 (−)

56 (14.9)

2005

29 (19.5)

20 (44.4)

3 (7.3)

1 (2.9)

1 (2.3)

0 (−)

0 (−)

1 (4.3)

0 (−)

55 (12.4)

2006

43 (29.1)

25 (56.8)

4 (11.4)

1 (4.5)

2 (5.6)

1 (5.6)

0 (−)

0 (−)

0 (−)

76 (18.5)

2007

30 (20.3)

32 (54.2)

2 (11.8)

3 (6.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (−)

0 (−)

0 (−)

0 (−)

67 (15.4)

2008

67 (31.6)

36 (60.0)

5 (23.8)

4 (7.3)

1 (2.6)

0 (−)

0 (−)

0 (−)

0 (−)

113 (22.2)

2009

45 (29.6)

31 (55.4)

2 (6.1)

2 (3.6)

2 (5.0)

1 (5.3)

1 (1.6)

0 (−)

0 (−)

84 (18.3)

2010

56 (33.1)

36 (59.0)

6 (18.8)

4 (6.7)

1 (1.7)

0 (−)

1 (1.6)

0 (−)

0 (−)

104 (20.9)

2011

49 (33.3)

30 (44.8)

5 (18.5)

2 (3.4)

1 (2.7)

0 (−)

0 (−)

0 (−)

0 (−)

87 (19.2)

2012

42 (28.2)

40 (57.1)

4 (15.4)

1 (1.7)

1 (3.4)

0 (−)

0 (−)

0 (−)

0 (−)

88 (19.7)

2013

25 (17.2)

58 (65.9)

8 (20.5)

2 (3.3)

4 (10.3)

0 (−)

0 (−)

0 (−)

0 (−)

97 (19.9)

2014

41 (24.3)

35 (60.3)

5 (17.9)

2 (3.7)

3 (5.4)

0 (−)

1 (1.0)

0 (−)

0 (−)

87 (16.4)

2015

31 (16.8)

52 (74.3)

5 (12.5)

2 (2.7)

2 (6.3)

0 (−)

0 (−)

0 (−)

1 (4.5)

93 (17.8)

Total (%)*

484 (25.7)

416 (57.3)

55 (14.4)

25 (4.1)

18 (3.6)

3(1.4)

3 (0.4)

2(0.7)

1 (0.5)

1007 (18.1)

  1. JME journal of medical ethics, NE nursing ethics, JCE journal of clinical ethics, BioE bioethics, NE nursing ethics, CQ Cambridge Quarterly, KIB Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, HCR hastings center report, TMB theoretical medicine & bioethics, CE Christian Bioethics
  2. *Empirical papers/Total original works published in the journal
  3. **Empirical paper/total original papers published by year