Overview
HEC Forum is an international, peer-reviewed publication featuring original contributions of interest to practicing physicians, nurses, social workers, risk managers, attorneys, ethicists, and other HEC committee members. Contributions from all pertinent sources are included, written in a style written appealing to HEC members and lay readers. HEC Forum publishes essays and research papers, and includes such sections as Essays on Substantive Bioethical/Health Law Issues; Analyses of Procedural and Operational Committee Issues; Document Exchange; Special Articles; International Perspectives; Mt./St. Anonymous: Cases and Institutional Policies; Point/Counterpoint Argumentation; Case Reviews, Analyses, and Resolutions; Chairperson's Section; `Tough Spot'; Critical Annotations; Health Law Alert; Network News and Letters to the Editors.
HEC Forum is an official partner journal of the American Society for Humanities + Bioethics:
http://www.asbh.org/
- Editor-in-Chief
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- Mark J. Cherry
- Impact factor
- 1.5 (2022)
- 5 year impact factor
- 1.8 (2022)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 18 days
- Downloads
- 154,269 (2023)
Latest articles
Journal updates
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COVID-19 and impact on peer review
As a result of the significant disruption that is being caused by the COVID-19 pandemic we are very aware that many researchers will have difficulty in meeting the timelines associated with our peer review process during normal times. Please do let us know if you need additional time. Our systems will continue to remind you of the original timelines but we intend to be highly flexible at this time.
Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 1572-8498
- Print ISSN
- 0956-2737
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- ANVUR
- BFI List
- Baidu
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences
- Dimensions
- EBSCO
- EMCare
- ERIH PLUS
- Google Scholar
- Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Medline
- Naver
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- PhilPapers
- Philosopher’s Index
- Portico
- ProQuest
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Social Science Citation Index
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
- Wanfang
- Copyright information