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Archives of legal medicine

Elsevier Masson s.r.l. · France · Est. 2023

ISSN2950-3949

SJR Q4✓ Scopus / SJR

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Bottom 25%

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.183

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.274

Total Worksi

Total Citationsi

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.21

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Archives of Legal Medicine publishes in English or French in the broad field of forensic science. This includes clinical and psychiatric forensics, thanatology, bodily injury, physical anthropology, other methods of identification, and legal, ethical, and deontological aspects of medicine.

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General Information

Country / RegionFrance

Primary Language—

1st Year Published2023

Annual Volume~ 25 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications83

Publisher OrgElsevier BV

Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

4/11 · 36%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Elsevier Masson s.r.l.

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

2950-3949

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Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

N/A

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

2023

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Pathology and Forensic MedicineQ4

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Pathology and Forensic Medicine

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Restraint-Related DeathsHealth, Medicine and SocietyDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesHuman auditory perception and evaluationEducational Robotics and EngineeringForensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology StudiesAutopsy Techniques and OutcomesMedical Malpractice and Liability IssuesIntimate Partner and Family ViolencePsychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research

Frequently asked questions about Archives of legal medicine

Is Archives of legal medicine a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Archives of legal medicine: it is indexed in Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Archives of legal medicine?

Archives of legal medicine is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.183.

Is Archives of legal medicine indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Archives of legal medicine is indexed in Scopus.