Ethics and Bioethics (in Central Europe)

Ethics and Bioethics (in Central Europe) is published by Walter de Gruyter and is in Zone 2 of Philosophy in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies, Ethics in medical practice and Eastern European Communism and Reforms, together about 29% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Ethics & Bioethics (in Central Europe) is one of the leading international journals in ethics and bioethics, focusing on philosophical ethics, bioethics, and applied ethics, and including the history of ethics, ethical and moral education, and professional ethics. The journal publishes theoretical articles and empirical findings concerning all aspects of ethics and morality. Authors can submit research articles and critical review articles. Ethics & Bioethics (in Central Europe) is published in print and electronic formats, with two issues per year (June and December). Only articles in English are accepted for publication. Acceptance Rate51.2% (2025)Call for papers: Ethics of AIYOU CAN FIND AN ARCHIVE OF THE JOURNAL HERE.Why subscribe and readThe journal offers the English-speaking academic community articles in all areas of ethics, bioethics, and applied ethics that primarily originate in Central Europe or address its major ethical traditions. Many influential authors outside the Central European region have published in the journal: Peter Singer (Princeton University & University of Melbourne), Jeff McMahan (University ofOxford), Roger Crisp (University of Oxford), Timo Airaksinen (University of Helsinki), Daniel Brennan (Bond University, Australia), Lubica Ucnik (Murdoch University, Australia), Steven R. Palmquist (Hong Kong University), Bob Brecher (University of Brighton), Jeremy Bendik-Keymer (Case Western Reserve University, USA), etc.Why submitThere is an opportunity to present original articles in ethics, bioethics, applied, and professional ethics to a broad English-speaking academic community worldwide. The journal was listed in the Web of Science database in quartile 1 (Q1) in 2025 and had an IF of 1.0, reflecting its high citation rate. Articles should be submitted to the journal electronically as an email attachment (in MS Word). It is essential to meet the journal’s publication style requirements (see Instructions for authors and recently published articles). If the article does not meet these requirements, we will ask you to revise it.Submit journal articles and related questions to:vasil.gluchman@yahoo.comAll submitted articles undergo double peer review: 30 days from submission to first decision and 60 days from submission of revision(s) to acceptance. All accepted articles of the non-native English authors must be proofread by a native English philosopher (ethicist) or linguist.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Arts and Humanities-Philosophy

Editor-in-chief Vasil GluchmanPublisher website

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Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher)

7Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

1.2LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

12Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.24LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.1LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

9OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

8OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.16OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Average review time (community reports)

about 12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025

51.2%Publisher website · 2026-09-29

Submission to first decision

30 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Peer review

Anonymous peer reviewLetPub

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Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Country or region

Poland

Language

English

ISSN

1338-5615

Electronic ISSN

2453-7829

Official links

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