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Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 2666-2817Verify ISSN ↗2666-2825Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,100 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 44 / 1162 | 96th | Q1 |
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 24 / 209 | 88th | Q1 |
| Medical Laboratory Technology | 6 / 42 | 86th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 264 / 1022 | 74th | Q2 |
| Information Systems | 139 / 519 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.7.
Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation is Q1 in Law (rank 44 of 1162), Q1 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 24 of 209) and Q1 in Medical Laboratory Technology (rank 6 of 42), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation 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 6.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.857, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 72.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,100 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 Science International: Digital Investigation is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2666-2817 and its online ISSN is 2666-2825.
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 Science International: Digital Investigation has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 2.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #72 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation published 110 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 120. 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 89 research articles (2026), authors are most often from South Korea (18.5%), Germany (15.5%) and United States (15.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 5 retracted papers are recorded (6.5 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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