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Medicine, Science and the Law is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.3), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 0025-8024Verify ISSN ↗2042-1818Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,150 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 189 / 1162 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects | 21 / 53 | 61st | Q2 |
| Health Policy | 148 / 330 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1960–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.3.
Medicine, Science and the Law is Q1 in Law (rank 189 of 1162), Q2 in Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects (rank 21 of 53) and Q2 in Health Policy (rank 148 of 330), by CiteScore 2025.
Medicine, Science and the Law is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and 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 3.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.402, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 44.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,150 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.
Medicine, Science and the Law is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0025-8024 and its online ISSN is 2042-1818.
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 and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Medicine, Science and the Law has an h-index of 62 and a 2-year mean of 0.99 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #310 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Medicine, Science and the Law published 60 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 90. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (23.4%), India (14.9%) and Italy (10.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 8 retracted papers are recorded (1.8 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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