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Journal of Law and Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.8), WoS ESCI. Published by Thomson Reuters (Professional) Australia Ltd.
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ISSN 1320-159XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Thomson Reuters (Professional) Australia Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 715 / 1162 | 38th | Q3 |
| Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects | 43 / 53 | 19th | Q4 |
| Health Policy | 273 / 330 | 17th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–2025 (also 1994), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.8.
Journal of Law and Medicine is Q3 in Law (rank 715 of 1162), Q4 in Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects (rank 43 of 53) and Q4 in Health Policy (rank 273 of 330), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Law and Medicine 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 38th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.166, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 23.
Journal of Law and Medicine is published by Thomson Reuters (Professional) Australia Ltd. Its ISSN is 1320-159X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Law and Medicine has an h-index of 5 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #915 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Journal of Law and Medicine published 42 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.
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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