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International Journal of Medical Toxicology and Forensic Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and Health Services.
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ISSN 2251-8762Verify ISSN ↗2251-8770Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and Health Services
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 159 / 209 | 24th | Q4 |
| Toxicology | 114 / 131 | 13th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.
International Journal of Medical Toxicology and Forensic Medicine is Q4 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 159 of 209) and Q4 in Toxicology (rank 114 of 131), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Medical Toxicology and Forensic Medicine 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 1, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 24th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.188, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 8.
International Journal of Medical Toxicology and Forensic Medicine is published by Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and Health Services. Its print ISSN is 2251-8762 and its online ISSN is 2251-8770.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
International Journal of Medical Toxicology and Forensic Medicine has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 1.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #102 of 208 Scopus journals in Pathology and Forensic Medicine.
International Journal of Medical Toxicology and Forensic Medicine published 13 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 60. 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 (2022–2025), authors are most often from Iran (69.2%), Egypt (7.6%) and Indonesia (5.1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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