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Arab Journal of Forensic Sciences and Forensic Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.5), DOAJ. Published by Naif University Publishing House.
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ISSN 1658-6786Verify ISSN ↗1658-6794Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Naif University Publishing House
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 835 / 1162 | 28th | Q3 |
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 182 / 209 | 13th | Q4 |
| Epidemiology | 156 / 173 | 10th | Q4 |
| Biochemistry (medical) | 72 / 78 | 8th | Q4 |
| Toxicology | 125 / 131 | 4th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.5.
Arab Journal of Forensic Sciences and Forensic Medicine is Q3 in Law (rank 835 of 1162), Q4 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 182 of 209) and Q4 in Epidemiology (rank 156 of 173), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Arab Journal of Forensic Sciences and Forensic Medicine is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q3, 28th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.154, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 5.
Arab Journal of Forensic Sciences and Forensic Medicine is published by Naif University Publishing House. Its print ISSN is 1658-6786 and its online ISSN is 1658-6794.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Arab Journal of Forensic Sciences and Forensic Medicine has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #637 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Arab Journal of Forensic Sciences and Forensic Medicine published 16 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 43. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 91 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from India (33%), Saudi Arabia (18.3%) and Nigeria (6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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