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Issues in Law and Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.8), WoS SSCI. Published by National Legal Center Medically Dependent and Disabled Inc..
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ISSN 2377-6463Verify ISSN ↗8756-8160Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: National Legal Center Medically Dependent and Disabled Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects | 42 / 53 | 21st | Q4 |
| Health Policy | 269 / 330 | 18th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–2025 (also 1985–2012), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.8.
Issues in Law and Medicine is Q4 in Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects (rank 42 of 53) and Q4 in Health Policy (rank 269 of 330), by CiteScore 2025.
Issues in Law and Medicine is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 21st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.147, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 18.
Issues in Law and Medicine is published by National Legal Center Medically Dependent and Disabled Inc. Its print ISSN is 2377-6463 and its online ISSN is 8756-8160.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Issues in Law and Medicine has an h-index of 1 and a 2-year mean of 0.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #47 of 53 Scopus journals in Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects.
Issues in Law and Medicine published 5 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2012 with 34. 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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