Scholarly peer review is the process of subjecting an author's scholarly work, research, or ideas to the scrutiny of others who are experts in the same field, before a paper describing this work is published in a journal. The work may be accepted, considered acceptable with revisions, or rejected. Peer review requires a community of experts in a given (narrowly defined) field, who are qualified and able to perform reasonably impartial review.Advances in Medical Ethics publishes original contributions that have a high likelihood of shaping the application and direction of medical ethics. ... Advances in Medical Ethics is indexed by Google Scholar. In PubMed: Selected citations only. National Library of Medicine,Advances in Medical Ethics is a high quality, multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that publishes rigorous research reports from all disciplines within biomedical and medical science, including original, interdisciplinary, and qualitative research articles, negative results and replication studies, systematic