Sudebno-Meditsinskaya Ekspertisa

Aims & Scope

The journal Sudebno-meditsinskaya ekspertiza was founded in 1958 with a view to highlighting the most important theoretical and practical aspects of forensic medical expertise with special reference to thanatology, traumatology, toxicology, serology, forensic obstetrics, stomatology, and chemistry, physico-technical methods of investigation, history of forensic medicine, selected problems of criminal surveys and procedural legislation pertaining to forensic medicine.

The journal publishes results of original investigations of domestic and foreign authors, casuistry reports, reviews of the literature and book reviews, scientific information, reports of scientific meetings, and extensive forensic medical materials of importance for public health services including medical errors encountered in diagnostic and therapeutic practices, the problem of sudden death, etc.

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.202

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	10

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	21055

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	89

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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
• Medline

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Subjects & Keywords

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

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Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

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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.

• Forensic medical characteristic of the causes behind sudden death in the young subjects

  Citation: 17

  Authors: Yu. I., M. A., E. M., Yu. I.

• The sudden death among the young persons under effect of the different forms of physical loads

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Yu. I., M. A., S. N., A. P., A. V., I. V., S. V.

• The analysis of the judicial practice of treating the civil lawsuits concerning the inadequate dental health service appeals launched by the patients in the Russian Federation during the period from 1993 to 2017

  Citation: 15

  Authors: S. N., A. A., V. A.

• The modern non-invasive methods for the evaluation of the age-specific changes in the skin

  Citation: 14

  Authors: G. V., S. B., Ju. I.

• Radio-visualization of non-specific postmortem changes in the cardiovascular system

  Citation: 12

  Authors: U. N., A. I.

• Overdose deaths from narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances in Russia (an analysis of materials for the period 2003 to 2018)

  Citation: 12

  Authors: V. Yu., A. V., P. V., O. V.

• Characteristic of the fractures of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar vertebrae in the victims of a traffic accident found in the passenger compartment of a modern motor vehicle

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Iu. I., I. A., E. P., A. S.

• Alcohol-associated mortality in Russia (based on the materials for the period from 2011 till 2016)

  Citation: 11

  Authors: A. V., Yu. E., O. V., A. V.

• The age-dependent changes of sella turcica, frontal and sphenoid sinuses

  Citation: 11

  Authors: Yu. I., M., G. V.

• The current state of the establishment of prescription of death coming and the ways to its further

  Citation: 11

  Authors: I. V., E. S., Yu. V.

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