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Journal of Forensic Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 0022-1198Verify ISSN ↗1556-4029Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$4,330 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 81 / 209 | 61st | Q2 |
| Genetics | 210 / 357 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1963–present (also 1961), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.7.
Journal of Forensic Sciences is Q2 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 81 of 209) and Q3 in Genetics (rank 210 of 357), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Forensic Sciences is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 3.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.541, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 123.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,330 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of Forensic Sciences is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 0022-1198 and its online ISSN is 1556-4029.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Forensic Sciences has an h-index of 155 and a 2-year mean of 1.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #68 of 208 Scopus journals in Pathology and Forensic Medicine.
Journal of Forensic Sciences published 279 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 376. 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 88 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (28.2%), India (9.1%) and Italy (8.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 14 retracted papers are recorded (1.1 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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