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Journal of Forensic Practice is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.3), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Publishing.
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ISSN 2050-8794Verify ISSN ↗2050-8808Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 545 / 1162 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 145 / 209 | 30th | Q3 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 443 / 580 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Applied Psychology | 205 / 258 | 20th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.3.
Journal of Forensic Practice is Q2 in Law (rank 545 of 1162), Q3 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 145 of 209) and Q4 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 443 of 580), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Forensic Practice 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 53rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.292, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 25.
Journal of Forensic Practice is published by Emerald Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2050-8794 and its online ISSN is 2050-8808.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Forensic Practice has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 0.63 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #470 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Journal of Forensic Practice published 43 papers in 2025. 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 94 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (64.5%), United States (6.2%) and Netherlands (6.2%). 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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