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Forensic Chemistry is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2468-1709Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$4,530 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 106 / 1162 | 90th | Q1 |
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 61 / 209 | 71st | Q2 |
| Spectroscopy | 39 / 81 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Materials Chemistry | 158 / 327 | 51st | Q2 |
| Analytical Chemistry | 79 / 160 | 50th | Q2 |
| Physical and Theoretical Chemistry | 102 / 194 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.5.
Forensic Chemistry is Q1 in Law (rank 106 of 1162), Q2 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 61 of 209) and Q2 in Spectroscopy (rank 39 of 81), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Forensic Chemistry 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 4.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.555, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 34.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,530 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Forensic Chemistry is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2468-1709.
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.
Forensic Chemistry has an h-index of 39 and a 2-year mean of 2.9 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #54 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Forensic Chemistry published 78 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 106. 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 88 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (30.1%), India (9.1%) and United Kingdom (8.4%).
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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