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Journal of Forensic Nursing is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.6), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
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ISSN 1556-3693Verify ISSN ↗1939-3938Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 475 / 1162 | 59th | Q2 |
| Nursing (miscellaneous) | 25 / 55 | 55th | Q2 |
| Psychiatric Mental Health | 28 / 47 | 41st | Q3 |
| Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects | 35 / 53 | 34th | Q3 |
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 138 / 209 | 34th | Q3 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 418 / 580 | 28th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.6.
Journal of Forensic Nursing is Q2 in Law (rank 475 of 1162), Q2 in Nursing (miscellaneous) (rank 25 of 55) and Q3 in Psychiatric Mental Health (rank 28 of 47), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Journal of Forensic Nursing is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 59th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.341, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 34.
Journal of Forensic Nursing is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. Its print ISSN is 1556-3693 and its online ISSN is 1939-3938.
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 and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Forensic Nursing has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 1.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #245 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Journal of Forensic Nursing published 55 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 64. 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 89 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (79.2%), France (3.4%) and Canada (2.2%). 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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