Ethics

55.6k citations
2.5k papers · indexed · active since 1950

Ethics

1.9k papers receiving 37.2k citations

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Ethics
Comparison fields: 5 of 207
  • Philosophy 18.6k
  • Political Science and International Relations 19.2k
  • Cognitive Neuroscience 13.1k
  • General Decision Sciences 853
  • Sociology and Political Science 18.3k
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About Ethics

The 2.5k papers published in Ethics in the last decades have received a total of 55.6k indexed citations . Papers published in Ethics usually cover Philosophy (852 papers), Political Science and International Relations (951 papers) and Cognitive Neuroscience (710 papers) specifically the topics of Political Philosophy and Ethics (737 papers), Free Will and Agency (564 papers), Ethics in medical practice (425 papers), Philosophical Ethics and Theory (398 papers), War, Ethics, and Justification (308 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (237 papers), Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (146 papers) and Torture, Ethics, and Law (89 papers). The most active scholars publishing in Ethics are Michael Lipsky, Joseph Raz, Annette C. Baier, Liz Anderson, G. A. Cohen, Iris Marion Young, Stephen Darwall, Charles E. Lindblom, J. David Velleman and Allen Buchanan.

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