About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Etikk i praksis - Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics (EiP) is a scholarly journal of applied ethics and related political theory. EiP aims to create a broad-based and unique journal for Nordic research within ethics. The contributions may focus on ethical, political or social aspects of scientific and technological developments within different fields, research ethics, and normative power, democracy and culture analyses. The journal provides a meeting place for applied ethics, be it within biotechnology, research, primary and secondary education, childhood, the Internet, culture, nature, business life, sports, the media, medicine, politics or elsewhere.

Peer Review Process

Articles that are found promising will be subjected to review by independent expert peers (double-blind refereeing). The reviewers use 5 general criteria for evaluation in addition to specific expected qualities appropriate to the field or area the authors write about. The general evaluation criteria include: originality, contribution to knowledge in the field, clarity, adequate references, and overall quality of the article. The reviewers also write specific recommendations to the author and make a recommendations whether to accept the article for publication, do minor revisions, do major revisions, or reject the article.

It normally takes 4 weeks for peer reviewers to return their evaluation and the author will normally receive response within two months of submission.

Publication Frequency

Issues per year: 2 (May and November)

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. No subscription fees are charged to readers.

Article Processing Charge (APC)

This policy applies only to authors whose papers have been already accepted for publication. To ensure the highest level of quality of its publications, the journal augments its very limited funding by charging authors of accepted papers (who have access to funding from their home institutions) an Article Processing Charge (APC) of NOK 6 500 to cover editorial costs. The APC may be waived (if limited funding permits) only if there is no possibility for the authors to receive funding from their home institution or university.

Sources of Support

NTNU Faculty of Humanities

Journal History

Etikk i praksis-Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics published its first issue on the 1st of November 2007 and was publicly launched on the 19th of November 2007 as a peer-reviewed research journal in applied ethics. The journal is a Nordic meeting point for applied ethics research in bioetechnology, research, youth, internet, culture, business, media, medicine, politcs and other areas.

The Editors have been using PKP`s Open Journal Systems (OJS) since the 7th of November 2014. Past issues were migrated to OJS on the 1st of January 2015. Since then the journal website is visited about 250 times daily and attracts an average of 80 unique visitors from more than 100 countries and territories around the world. The top 10 most popular articles have been viewed more than 900 times since these were published.

Articles published in Etikk i praksis are registered with CrossRef using unique DOIs. DOIs can be searched through CrossRef Text Query by copy-pasting references into the text query box. Complete XML metadata of an article can be retrieved from CorssRef via OpenURL by simply requesting for an API key and using this API key to replace the username:password and DOI fields in the query URL. Citation count appears as the value of 'fl_count='.

Articles that appear in the current issue back to 2010 are indexed in ISI Thomson Reuters (now Clarivate Analytics). See Web of Science to track citations since 2010. It takes about 3 months after publication in an issue for article information to be posted on Web of Science.

Google scholar track citations from 2007 up to the present. Click on the title links below to see google scholar's current citation listings for each article.

2007 Nr 1

Leder

Hva skal vi med etiske komiteer?

Det moralske grunnlaget for å vurdere samtykkekompetanse

Anvendt etik og forhandlet normdannelse

Moraliska räkenskaper – etik och praxis inom biomedicinsk forskning

Vitenskapelig usikkerhet – etiske utfordringer for forskning og forvaltning

2008 Nr 1

Teknologisk fravalg og tilvalg av fremtidig syke og funksjonshemmede

Beyond informed choice: Prenatal risk assessment, decision-making and trust 

Frykten for et samfunn uten Downs syndrom

Er seleksjon av døve eller hørende barn to sider av samme sak? En bioetisk argumentasjon basert på autentisitetsbetraktninger

Kriser og etikk

Finanskrisas bakgrunn

Farlige forbindelser? En refleksjon over forholdet mellom teori, praksis og moralsk ansvarlighet i økonomifaget

Self-interest, deregulation and trust

På sviktende kunnskapsgrunnlag? Assistert befruktning for lesbiske par

Unjust noise

Tillitens mange ansikter

Deltagende overvågning og sociale fællesskaber på nettet

När vården flyttar hem till dig – den mobila vårdens etik

Fair unemployment compensation and the target for egalitarian concerns

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