The ''Indian Journal of Medical Ethics'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed

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covering medical ethics and

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. It was established in 1993 by the Forum for Medical Ethics Society, an activist group campaigning to reform the Maharashtra Medical Council. The journal was originally entitled ''Medical Ethics'', and its first issue was published in August 1993. It obtained its current title in January 2004. The

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is Amar Jesani. The online version of the journal is

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, the printed version is subscription-based; there are no

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Fraudulent paper

In May 2018, the journal attracted criticism when it was revealed that it had published a paper attributed to "Lars Andersson", whose affiliation was listed as the

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. In fact, the real name of the author of the paper was not Lars Andersson, and he did not have any affiliation with the Karolinska. The journal initially responded by issuing a statement describing the author's deception as "unacceptable", but refusing to retract the paper. Instead, editor-in-chief Amar Jesani removed the author's name and affiliation from the paper on the journal's website. Later that month, the journal retracted the paper, writing in a statement that "...we have concluded that tolerating the author’s deception and retaining the article was an error of judgment.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: * Embase *

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External links

*{{Official website, https://ijme.in/ Bioethics journals English-language journals Academic journals published in India Quarterly journals Publications established in 1993 Creative Commons Attribution-licensed journals