Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology

ISSN 1547-769x · Springer Science+Business Media · United States · active 2005–2026

Metrics

Best Scimago quartile (2025)
Q2
Cites per paper (2y)
1.5
SJR
0.451
h-index
61

“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric (how the two differ). Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline. What the other figures mean: journal quartile, SJR, h-index and article processing charge.

Data as of 1 November 2026 (venue index build).

Scimago Journal Rank 2025

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology is Q2 in 1 of its 2 subject categories and Q3 in the other 1. Its best category quartile is Q2.

Scimago 2025 quartile and rank of Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology in each subject category
Subject categoryQuartileRank in category
Pathology and Forensic MedicineQ2#107 of 214
Medicine (miscellaneous)Q3#1,431 of 2,517
Cites per document (2 years, Scopus)
1.75
Documents indexed in 2025 (Scopus)
342

The quartile is the one Scimago prints for each category. Rank is the journal's position by SJR among the journals Scimago lists in that category (#1 is the highest); “—” means we hold no rank consistent with that quartile. The document count is what Scopus indexed that year, which can be lower than a journal's full output. Source: SCImago Journal Rank 2025 edition, from Scopus data (scimagojr.com, CC BY-NC).

Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology is Q2 in 1 of its 2 Scimago subject categories (2025 edition; best category Pathology and Forensic Medicine: Q2, #107 of 214), with SJR 0.451 (Scimago) and an h-index of 61 (OpenAlex). Listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed.

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Responding time

Submission to acceptance
12 days (median)
Estimated from our library (10 papers)

Turnaround figures are indicative, not a guarantee: DOAJ values are self-reported by the journal (average weeks, submission to publication); library estimates are medians of the received/accepted dates printed in papers we hold. Editorial times vary by article type and season — confirm on the journal’s own site.

Indexing & access

Indexed in
ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
Access status:
hybrid. Where this comes from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic — confirm on the journal’s own site, especially regarding any article processing charge.

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Scope

autopsytechniquesoutcomesradiologynuclearmedicineimagingrestraint-relateddeathsemergencyforensicanthropology

Frequently asked

Is Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, which is a positive signal.

Is Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology appears in: Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

What is the impact factor of Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology?

Papers in Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology are cited about 1.5 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q2, with an h-index of 61. Those are the open equivalents: the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor is a proprietary metric we neither compute nor license, so we show the two-year citation rate and Scimago quartile instead — they answer the same question of how heavily the journal is cited. A citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

What Scimago quartile is Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology (Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4)?

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology is Q2 in 1 of its 2 subject categories and Q3 in the other 1. By category: Pathology and Forensic Medicine: Q2, #107 of 214; Medicine (miscellaneous): Q3, #1,431 of 2,517. Its best category quartile is Q2. Quartiles split the journals in a subject category into four equal groups by SJR, so Q1 is the most-cited quarter and Q4 the least; Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology is cited about 1.5 times per paper over two years, with an h-index of 61.

What is the Web of Science (JCR) quartile of Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology?

The Web of Science quartile comes from Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a proprietary product we neither license nor compute — so we cannot state a JCR quartile for Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology. The open equivalent is its best Scimago quartile, Q2 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine, derived from Scopus citation data. Because JCR ranks against Web of Science and Scimago against Scopus, the two can differ, so check Clarivate's site directly if you need the JCR quartile specifically.

Is Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology open access?

Our index records its access status as "hybrid". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.

How long does Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology take to publish a paper?

Submission to acceptance for Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology takes about 12 days (median) — Estimated from our library (n=10 papers). Treat it as indicative rather than a guarantee: editorial times vary by article type, reviewer availability and season, and a self-reported figure is the journal's own. We do not hold a peer-review acceptance rate for Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology.

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