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Legal Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 1344-6223Verify ISSN ↗1873-4162Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,540 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects | 24 / 53 | 55th | Q2 |
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 102 / 209 | 51st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.8.
Legal Medicine is Q2 in Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects (rank 24 of 53) and Q2 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 102 of 209), by CiteScore 2025.
Legal Medicine 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 2.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 55th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.480, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 59.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,540 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.
Legal Medicine is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 1344-6223 and its online ISSN is 1873-4162.
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.
Legal Medicine has an h-index of 66 and a 2-year mean of 1.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #25 of 53 Scopus journals in Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects.
Legal Medicine published 145 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 236. 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 94 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Japan (30.3%), Italy (20.7%) and China (8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 5 retracted papers are recorded (1.6 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.
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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