Issues in Law and Medicine

Aims & Scope

Issues in Law & Medicine is a peer reviewed professional journal published semiannually.

Founded in 1985, ILM is co-sponsored by the National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc. and the Watson Bowes Research Institute.

Issues is devoted to providing technical and informational assistance to attorneys, health care professionals, educators and administrators on legal, medical, and ethical issues arising from health care decisions.

Its subscribers include law libraries, medical libraries, university libraries, court libraries, attorneys, physicians, university professors and other scholars, primarily in the U.S. and Canada, but also in Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Italy, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom.

Issues includes original articles, verbatim legal documents, analytical summaries of recent national and international court decisions, abstracts of medical, legal, and ethical journal articles, and announcements of new books.

Issues has been cited in the published opinions of at least fourteen state and federal courts of appeal, including two United States Supreme Court and seven state supreme court opinions, and cited in more than 1100 law review articles.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.4

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.133

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q4

h-index

Year	Value
2024	17

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	26060

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	20

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Medicine and Nursing, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Turnaway Study Report Unethically Violated Participants’ Privacy and Misleads Public with a Non-Representative Sample, Selective Reporting, and Overstated Conclusions

  Citation: 1

  Authors: David

• Counseling the Abortion-Vulnerable Patient

  Citation: 0

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• Abortion and Mental Health: What Can We Conclude?

  Citation: 0

  Authors: Aaron

• Advantages and Disadvantages of Soft Drugs Legalisation at State Level

  Citation: 0

  Authors: Piotr

• Issues in Law & Medicine

  Citation: 0

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• Challenging VavÅ™ička: Questioning Compatibility of the Mandatory Tetanus Vaccination with ECHR

  Citation: 0

  Authors: Meliha Sermin, Zeynep

• A Statement on Abortion by 170 Obstetricians/ Gynecologists after the Reversal of Roe v Wade

  Citation: 0

  Authors: Christina, Michael

• Citation: 0

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• Reconsidering the Ethical Framework of DMV-based First-Person Authorization for Organ Donation

  Citation: 0

  Authors: Alexander

• First Pregnancy Abortion or Natural Pregnancy Loss: A Cohort Study of Mental Health Services Utilization

  Citation: 0

  Authors: James, Tessa Longbons, John, Christina, David, Ingrid, Christopher, Maka, Zbigniew

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