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Forensic Science and Technology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.6). Published by Editorial Office of Forensic Science and Technology.
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ISSN 1008-3650Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Editorial Office of Forensic Science and Technology
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 824 / 1162 | 29th | Q3 |
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 180 / 209 | 14th | Q4 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) | 134 / 144 | 7th | Q4 |
| Toxicology | 124 / 131 | 5th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.6.
Forensic Science and Technology is Q3 in Law (rank 824 of 1162), Q4 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 180 of 209) and Q4 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) (rank 134 of 144), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Forensic Science and Technology 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 0.6, quartile Q3, 29th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.191, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 7.
Forensic Science and Technology is published by Editorial Office of Forensic Science and Technology. Its ISSN is 1008-3650.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Forensic Science and Technology has an h-index of 5 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #915 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Forensic Science and Technology published 16 papers in 2016; its busiest recent year was 2010 with 59. 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.
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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