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Journal of Forensic Medicine Science and Law is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1). Published by Medicolegal Association of Maharashtra.
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ISSN 2277-1867Verify ISSN ↗2277-8853Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Medicolegal Association of Maharashtra
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 643 / 1162 | 44th | Q3 |
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 315 / 466 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 157 / 209 | 25th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.
Journal of Forensic Medicine Science and Law is Q3 in Law (rank 643 of 1162), Q3 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 315 of 466) and Q3 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 157 of 209), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Forensic Medicine Science 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 1, quartile Q3, 44th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.197, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 5.
Journal of Forensic Medicine Science and Law is published by Medicolegal Association of Maharashtra. Its print ISSN is 2277-1867 and its online ISSN is 2277-8853.
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.
Journal of Forensic Medicine Science and Law has an h-index of 3 and a 2-year mean of 0.32 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #662 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Journal of Forensic Medicine Science and Law published 30 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 39. 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 36 research articles (2023), authors are most often from India (91.7%), Saudi Arabia (4.2%) and Jordan (1.4%). 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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