Law, Probability and Risk

Aims & Scope

Law, Probability & Risk is a fully refereed journal which publishes papers dealing with topics on the interface of law and probabilistic reasoning.

These are interpreted broadly to include aspects relevant to the interpretation of scientific evidence, the assessment of uncertainty and the assessment of risk.

The readership includes academic lawyers, mathematicians, statisticians and social scientists with interests in quantitative reasoning.

The primary objective of the journal is to cover issues in law, which have a scientific element, with an emphasis on statistical and probabilistic issues and the assessment of risk.

Examples of topics which may be covered include communications law, computers and the law, environmental law, law and medicine, regulatory law for science and technology, identification problems (such as DNA but including other materials), sampling issues (drugs, computer pornography, fraud), offender profiling, credit scoring, risk assessment, the role of statistics and probability in drafting legislation, the assessment of competing theories of evidence (possibly with a view to forming an optimal combination of them).

In addition, a whole new area is emerging in the application of computers to medicine and other safety-critical areas.

New legislation is required to define the responsibility of computer experts who develop software for tackling these safety-critical problems.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2.7
2024	1.40

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.531

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	22

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	10943

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	34

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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 Arts and Humanities, Decision Sciences and Social Sciences, 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.

• Forensics without uniqueness, conclusions without individualization: the new epistemology of forensic identification

  Citation: 98

  Authors: S. A.

• The use of technology in human expert domains: challenges and risks arising from the use of automated fingerprint identification systems in forensic science

  Citation: 87

  Authors: I. E., J. L.

• Forensic intelligence and crime analysis

  Citation: 87

  Authors: O.

• The rationale for RationaleTM

  Citation: 73

  Authors: T.

• Painting the target around the matching profile: the Texas sharpshooter fallacy in forensic DNA interpretation

  Citation: 73

  Authors: W. C.

• A forensic approach to the interpretation of blood doping markers

  Citation: 65

  Authors: P.-E., N., M., O.

• Dismissal of the illusion of uncertainty in the assessment of a likelihood ratio

  Citation: 65

  Authors: Franco, Silvia, Alex, Colin

• Scale of conclusions for the value of evidence

  Citation: 65

  Authors: A., R., W., L.

• An introduction to Bayesian credible intervals for sampling error in DNA profiles

  Citation: 52

  Authors: James M.

• The precautionary principle: a new approach to public decision-making?

  Citation: 51

  Authors: K.

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