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Journal of Legal Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.9), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0194-7648Verify ISSN ↗1521-057XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 660 / 1162 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Medicine (all) | 385 / 669 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025–present (also 2017–2023, 1979–2015, 1974–1975), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.9.
Journal of Legal Medicine is Q3 in Law (rank 660 of 1162) and Q3 in Medicine (all) (rank 385 of 669), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Legal Medicine 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 43rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.173, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 23.
Journal of Legal Medicine is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0194-7648 and its online ISSN is 1521-057X.
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 Legal Medicine has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 0.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #880 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Journal of Legal Medicine published 14 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 71. 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 24 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from United States (100%). 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.
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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