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It is the aim of the International Journal of Legal Medicine to improve the scientific armamentarium necessary for the elucidation of crime and for related forensic applications at a high level of evidential proof.

    The International Journal of Legal Medicine is a regular source of essential information in the areas of:
  • Forensic pathology, including sudden death, thanatology, and demonstration of vital reactions
  • Clinical forensic pathology, including such topics as non-accidental injury and rape
  • Forensic haemogenetics, with special emphasis on the recent advances in DNA technology and PCR
  • Forensic toxicology, as it relates for example to alcohol and drug addiction, and recent technology
  • Traffic medicine, with special reference to reconstruction, causal connections, and medical complications

Editors-in-Chief
  • Andreas Schmeling
Co-Editor-in-Chief
  • Tony Fracasso
Impact factor
2.1 (2022)
5 year impact factor
2.1 (2022)
Submission to first decision (median)
9 days
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744,336 (2023)

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Electronic ISSN
1437-1596
Print ISSN
0937-9827
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