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Medicine and Law is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.5), WoS ESCI. Published by William S. Hein & Co., Inc..
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ISSN 0723-1393Verify ISSN ↗2471-836XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: William S. Hein & Co., Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 870 / 1162 | 25th | Q3 |
| Health Policy | 310 / 330 | 6th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1982–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.5.
Medicine and Law is Q3 in Law (rank 870 of 1162) and Q4 in Health Policy (rank 310 of 330), by CiteScore 2025.
Medicine and Law 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 25th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.106, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 23.
Medicine and Law is published by William S. Hein & Co., Inc. Its print ISSN is 0723-1393 and its online ISSN is 2471-836X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Medicine and Law has an h-index of 2 and a 2-year mean of 0.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #868 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Medicine and Law published 33 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.
In its latest 63 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (13.5%), Australia (12.7%) and India (6.3%).
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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