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Forensic Science International: Genetics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd.
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ISSN 1872-4973Verify ISSN ↗1878-0326Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ireland Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$5,020 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 21 / 209 | 90th | Q1 |
| Genetics | 87 / 357 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.
Forensic Science International: Genetics is Q1 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 21 of 209) and Q1 in Genetics (rank 87 of 357), by CiteScore 2025.
Forensic Science International: Genetics 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 7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.428, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 107.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$5,020 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: Genetics is published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1872-4973 and its online ISSN is 1878-0326.
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: Genetics has an h-index of 122 and a 2-year mean of 2.95 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #29 of 208 Scopus journals in Pathology and Forensic Medicine.
Forensic Science International: Genetics published 149 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 201. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (21.2%), United States (8.9%) and Australia (6.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 12 retracted papers are recorded (3.8 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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