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Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0045-0618Verify ISSN ↗1834-562XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 119 / 209 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1968–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.3.
Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences is Q3 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 119 of 209), by CiteScore 2025.
Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 2.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 43rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.348, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 36.
Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0045-0618 and its online ISSN is 1834-562X.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences has an h-index of 45 and a 2-year mean of 0.82 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #119 of 208 Scopus journals in Pathology and Forensic Medicine.
Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences published 66 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 132. 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 87 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Australia (48.8%), Türkiye (7.5%) and United States (6.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 6 retracted papers are recorded (2.8 per 1,000 papers). 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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