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Forensic Science International: Mind and Law is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.4). Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2666-3538Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$2,060 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 109 / 1162 | 90th | Q1 |
| Psychology (miscellaneous) | 25 / 118 | 78th | Q1 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 214 / 580 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–2024, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.4.
Forensic Science International: Mind and Law is Q1 in Law (rank 109 of 1162), Q1 in Psychology (miscellaneous) (rank 25 of 118) and Q2 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 214 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Forensic Science International: Mind and Law 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 4.4, quartile Q1, 90th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.345, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 14.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,060 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: Mind and Law is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2666-3538.
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 International: Mind and Law has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 2.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #95 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Forensic Science International: Mind and Law published 5 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 42. 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 80 research articles (2021–2024), authors are most often from United Kingdom (31.8%), Switzerland (19.3%) and United States (9.2%).
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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