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Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1478-9949Verify ISSN ↗1478-9957Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Psychology | 210 / 314 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 407 / 580 | 29th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2003–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.6.
Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology is Q3 in Clinical Psychology (rank 210 of 314) and Q3 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 407 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 33rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.393, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 58.
Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1478-9949 and its online ISSN is 1478-9957.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology has an h-index of 63 and a 2-year mean of 1.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #133 of 308 Scopus journals in Clinical Psychology.
Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology published 37 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 73. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (46.9%), Türkiye (7.7%) and Australia (5.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (3 per 1,000 papers). 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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