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Journal of Forensic Science and Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.5), DOAJ. Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications.
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ISSN 2349-5014Verify ISSN ↗2455-0094Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 849 / 1162 | 26th | Q3 |
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 183 / 209 | 12th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.5.
Journal of Forensic Science and Medicine is Q3 in Law (rank 849 of 1162) and Q4 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 183 of 209), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Forensic Science and Medicine 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 0.5, quartile Q3, 26th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.167, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 11.
Journal of Forensic Science and Medicine is published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. Its print ISSN is 2349-5014 and its online ISSN is 2455-0094.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Forensic Science and Medicine has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 0.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #395 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Journal of Forensic Science and Medicine published 47 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 55. 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 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (49.5%), China (29.9%) and Nigeria (3.6%).
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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