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Table 3 Journals (fields and titles) of the reviews (sorted after highest ranking)

From: Current state of ethics literature synthesis: a systematic review of reviews

Academic field (according to JCR)

Number of journals (multiple response possible) (n = 111)

 Nursing

17 (15 %)

 Medical Ethics

10 (9 %)

 Genetics and Heredity

8 (7 %)

 Public, Environmental, and Occupational Health

8 (7 %)

 Health Care Sciences and Services

7 (6 %)

 Psychiatry

6 (5 %)

 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

4 (4 %)

 Medicine, General and Internal

3 (3 %)

 Pharmacology and Pharmacy

3 (3 %)

 Surgery

3 (3 %)

 Ethics

2 (2 %)

 Geriatrics and Gerontology

2 (2 %)

 History and Philosophy of Science

2 (2 %)

 Multidisciplinary Sciences

2 (2 %)

 Neurosciences

2 (2 %)

 Pediatrics

2 (2 %)

 Fields that only came up once*

22 (19 %)

 Not found in JCR Science/Social Science Edition 2014

8 (7 %)

Journal title

Number of reviews (n = 84)

 Nursing Ethics

7 (8 %)

 BMC Medical Ethics

4 (5 %)

 European Journal of Human Genetics

4 (5 %)

 Journal of Advanced Nursing

4 (5 %)

 Journal of Medical Ethics

4 (5 %)

 Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences

2 (2 %)

 Journals with only one published article

59 (70 %)

  1. *Anesthesiology, Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology, Cell and Tissue Engineering, Cell Biology, Dermatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Health Policy and Services, Medical Informatics, Medicine, Research and Experimental, Multidisciplinary, Nutrition and Dietetics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Otorhinolaryngology, Psychology, Rehabilitation, Rheumatology, Social Sciences/Biomedical, Sport Sciences, Substance Abuse, Transplantation