--- title: "Science and Engineering Ethics: impact and top papers" description: "Science and Engineering Ethics has a 2-year mean citedness of 5.52 and an h-index of 109 in OpenAlex, #16 of 27 tracked higher education and research journals by citedness. In 2025 it published 46 papers, and its papers received 6,471 citations." url: https://scholar4ai.com/journals/science-and-engineering-ethics markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/journals/science-and-engineering-ethics.md license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) share_text: "Science and Engineering Ethics has a 2-year mean citedness of 5.52 and an h-index of 109 in OpenAlex, #16 of 27 tracked higher education and research journals by citedness. (as of 2026-11-03)" data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json updated: 2026-11-03T18:03:37+09:00 window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03 source: OpenAlex (CC0) --- # Science and Engineering Ethics - 1 paper in the last 7 days - category: Higher Education and Research - publisher: Springer Science+Business Media - ISSN 1353-3452 - Journal website: https://link.springer.com/journal/11948 - ISSN portal: https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/1353-3452 - OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/S14881475 Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journals.md Rankings of Higher Education and Research: [Higher Education and Research dashboard](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) · [Higher Education and Research journal rankings by citations](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/higher-education-and-research.md) · [Top higher education and research institutions, 2023–2025](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/higher-education-and-research.md) · [Top funders of higher education and research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/funders/higher-education-and-research.md) · [Companies in higher education and research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies/higher-education-and-research.md) · [Open access in higher education and research journals](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/open-access/higher-education-and-research.md) · [Top Higher Education and Research conferences](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) ## Key findings - Science and Engineering Ethics has a 2-year mean citedness of 5.52 and an h-index of 109 in OpenAlex, #16 of 27 tracked higher education and research journals by citedness. - In 2025 it published 46 papers, and its papers received 6,471 citations. - Science and Engineering Ethics published 6 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #178 of 480 journals. - Leading institutions: Delft University of Technology (1), Rathenau Instituut (1) and Leiden University (1). - Countries: Netherlands (3), Germany (1) and United Kingdom (1). - From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, Science and Engineering Ethics published 6 papers (0 a month on average, by publication date in OpenAlex). - Its most frequent keywords over that period were “AI alignment” (1), “AI ethics” (1) and “GPT-4o” (1). ## Citation metrics *Citation metrics (OpenAlex)* | Metric | Value | |---|---:| | 2-year mean citedness | 5.52 | | h-index | 109 | | i10-index | 1,250 | | Papers in OpenAlex | 2,441 | | Citations in OpenAlex | 64,484 | | Rank among tracked higher education and research journals | [#16 of 27](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/higher-education-and-research.md) | *Papers per year and the citations the journal's papers received that year (OpenAlex)* | Year | Papers | Citations received | |---|---:|---:| | 2026 (so far) | 59 | 5,047 | | 2025 | 46 | 6,471 | | 2024 | 65 | 7,142 | | 2023 | 41 | 6,280 | | 2022 | 66 | 5,926 | | 2021 | 77 | 6,062 | | 2020 | 101 | 4,937 | | 2019 | 95 | 3,617 | | 2018 | 69 | 2,767 | | 2017 | 145 | 2,203 | | 2016 | 120 | 2,274 | 2-year mean citedness is OpenAlex's count of citations per paper a journal published in the two previous years, an open counterpart to the journal impact factor (which counts only Web of Science citations); the h-index and i10-index cover all its papers. The figures come from OpenAlex (CC0) and are read again monthly. Official metrics such as the Journal Impact Factor (Clarivate) and CiteScore (Scopus) are licensed by their owners and not copied here; the publisher shows them on the journal's website. Journal website: https://link.springer.com/journal/11948 ## The last 36 months *Papers by publication date, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026* | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months | |---:|---:|---:|---:| | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | *Most frequent keywords, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026* | # | Keyword | Papers | |---:|---|---:| | 1 | AI alignment | 1 | | 2 | [AI ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/ai-ethics.md) | 1 | | 3 | GPT-4o | 1 | | 4 | Hayao Miyazaki | 1 | | 5 | Hestia | 1 | | 6 | The Wind Rises | 1 | | 7 | aesthetic mediation | 1 | | 8 | arts-based pedagogy | 1 | | 9 | capability approach | 1 | | 10 | character identification | 1 | *Papers, newest first.* | Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations | |---|---|---|---|---| | 2026-10-30 | [Making the invisible visible: a reflection method to uncover justice-related design choices in energy models with model developers and users](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-026-00638-4) | [Science and Engineering Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/science-and-engineering-ethics.md) | Aarthi Sundaram, Nynke van Uffelen, Yilin Huang et al. | Delft University of Technology; Leiden University; Rathenau Instituut | | 2026-10-24 | [Differential Disruption and Human Flourishing: Towards a Capability-Based Approach for Assessing Socially Disruptive Technologies](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-026-00635-7) | [Science and Engineering Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/science-and-engineering-ethics.md) | Giovanni Prins | University of Twente | | 2026-10-22 | [Limitations of Computational Morality: Can We Morally Enhance Ourselves via AI?](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-026-00634-8) | [Science and Engineering Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/science-and-engineering-ethics.md) | Florian Richter | Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt | | 2026-10-16 | [Film as Ethical Experience in Engineering Education: Three Modes of Ethical Engagement](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-026-00636-6) | [Science and Engineering Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/science-and-engineering-ethics.md) | Nikolas Käkelä, Thomas Taro Lennerfors, Sarah Hitt | Jönköping University; Uppsala University; New Model Institute for Technology & Engineering | | 2026-10-13 | [How Utilitarian are OpenAI’s Models Really? Replicating and Reinterpreting Pfeffer, Krügel, and Uhl (2025)](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-026-00613-z) | [Science and Engineering Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/science-and-engineering-ethics.md) | Johannes Himmelreich | Syracuse University | | 2026-10-12 | [Digitalisation, Use of Scientific Publications, and Research Output: Cross-Country Evidence](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-026-00633-9) | [Science and Engineering Ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/science-and-engineering-ethics.md) | Guangyao Zhang, Lili Wang, Yu Geng et al. | Nanjing University; United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology; Maastricht University; … | ## Cite this page Scholar4AI. (2026). Science and Engineering Ethics. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. 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