Research Ethics is the official journal of The Association of Research Ethics Committees. The journal is aimed at all readers and authors interested in ethical issues in research, the regulation of research and the procedures and process of ethical review. We aim to promote, provoke, host and engage in open and public debate about research ethics but also to contribute to the education of researchers and reviewers of research. Research Ethics publishes original papers and review articles as well as informative case studies. The quality of submitted articles is evaluated independently by double-blind peer-review.
The editors encourage the submission of:
- Original papers on topics related to ethical issues in research or its regulation (up to 6000 words, but longer articles are not excluded).
- These papers will likewise address issues which relate either to the ethical conduct of research, the process of ethical review in research or to the procedures that underpin ethics committee activity – papers of this length will receive fast review and may also be printed rapidly if they address current live issues (up to 3000 words).
- Case studies that provide examples of ethical review highlighting the practicalities and issues that engender committee discussion and debate (1500 words).
- These are short reports of committee practice, researcher’s experiences or meetings and conferences focused on research ethics (up to 1500 words).
- Review articles that address key issues in research ethics or which focus on under-researched topics. Rather than introducing new material, they are more educational in nature and explain the core issues in a particular area. (3000 - 6000 words).
- Book reviews of books on research ethics are invited (500 - 1000 words). If you would like to be on our book review mailing list to be invited to carry out book reviews as we receive relevant texts please email the editor.
These are original responses to papers about to be published in Research Ethics, which will be emailed to the responses email list once an appropriate paper has been identified (up to 1500 words). Response will be invited from the authors of the original paper. If you would like to be on the responders mailing list and get early access to research papers to respond to please email the editors to be added to the mailing list.
Email inquiries or submissions to the Editors
Dr Sarah Edwards & Dr David Hunter: REeditors@arec.org.uk
For guidelines on formatting articles please see: http://www.research-ethics-review.com/
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Research Ethics is published on behalf of The Association of Research Ethics Committees (AREC).
SUBSCRIPTIONS (2010): Print Only £75, Print and electronic £90, Electronic only £65. Please download our order-form and full rates by right-clicking the link and saving to your computer. Return the form to Smith-Gordon publishers.