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Forensic Imaging is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 2666-2256Verify ISSN ↗2666-2264Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,280 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 127 / 209 | 39th | Q3 |
| Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging | 232 / 361 | 35th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.
Forensic Imaging is Q3 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 127 of 209) and Q3 in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging (rank 232 of 361), by CiteScore 2025.
Forensic Imaging is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 39th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.322, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 26.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,280 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 Imaging is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2666-2256 and its online ISSN is 2666-2264.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Forensic Imaging has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.69 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #131 of 208 Scopus journals in Pathology and Forensic Medicine.
Forensic Imaging published 44 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 77. 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 92 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Japan (18.9%), Switzerland (9.7%) and India (8.7%).
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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