Legal Medicine Research is an international peer-reviewed, gold open-access journal focusing on innovative research in the field of forensic medicine and serving forensic practice. Its primary objectives are to advance the development of global forensic medicine, foster in-depth interdisciplinary integration between forensic medicine and related fields, and elevate the discipline's research standards and authentication capabilities.

The journal focuses on publishing innovative, cutting-edge research findings within the discipline, as well as new technologies, methodologies, and concepts that significantly contribute to the practice of forensic identification. Accordingly, the scope of published content includes, but is not limited to, the following areas:

Injury and Death of Biological Individuals: Focus on innovative research related to the death and injury of biological individuals (including humans and animals), such as the study of postmortem Omics and their temporal patterns, the cause, mechanism, etc., of death and injury.
Identification and Kinship Analysis of Biological Individuals: Research on novel theories, methods, and equipment for identifying biological individuals (e.g., humans, animals, plants) and determining kinship relationships.
Poisoning and Substance Abuse: Focus on innovative research concerning new technologies and methods for analyzing toxic substances within biological individuals, as well as studies on the mechanisms of drug addiction and the development of preventive/interventional pharmaceuticals and methods.
Mental State and Legal Responsibility: Emphasis on novel theories and methods for the objective diagnosis of mental disorders in individuals involved in legal issues.
Objective Examination Technologies and Methods for Assessing Functional States of Human Organ Systems: Focus on novel theories, technologies, and equipment for the accurate assessment of human visual, auditory, sexual function, intelligence, mental state, age, etc., utilizing objective examination techniques such as electrophysiology, imaging, and artificial intelligence.
Environmental Pollution and Personal Injury: Focus on research into the mechanisms by which external environmental changes cause harm to biological individuals, such as the mechanisms of injury and death resulting from food contamination, water pollution, soil pollution, etc.
Medical Disputes: Focus on theoretical and technological research related to the authentication of medical disputes, including reports on typical medical dispute cases.
Forensic Identification Standards and Guidelines: Focus on research and recommendations related to standards and guidelines for forensic judicial authentication.
Forensic Ethics and Humanistic Considerations: Focus on ethical issues arising during forensic authentication processes, as well as aspects of humanistic care.

Legal Medicine Research publishes article types including, but not limited to: Original Research Articles, Mini-Reviews/Reviews, Short Communications, Commentaries, Opinions, and Case Reports.

Ownership

The journal is owned by OAE Publishing Inc.

Publishing Model

Gold Open Access. All articles published by Legal Medicine Research are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately from the date of publication. For further information, please refer to Open Access.

Copyright and License to Publish

Articles in Legal Medicine Research are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). The CC BY 4.0 allows for maximum dissemination and re-use of open access materials and is preferred by many research funding bodies. Under this license users are free to share (copy, distribute and transmit) and remix (adapt) the contribution for any purposes, even commercially, provided that the users appropriately acknowledge the original authors and the source.

Copyright is retained by authors. Authors are required to sign a License to Publish (which can be downloaded from the journal's Author Instructions), granting Legal Medicine Research, which identifies itself as the original publisher, exclusive rights to publish their articles, and granting any third party the right to use the articles freely as long as the integrity is maintained and the original authors, citation details and publisher are identified.

Editorial Board

For more information about the editorial team, please refer to Editorial Board.

Editorial Policies

All manuscripts submitted to Legal Medicine Research should adhere to journal's Editorial Policies.

Peer Review

The journal adheres to rigorous peer review and undergoes single-blind peer review. For more details, please refer to Editorial Process and Peer Review Guidelines.

Publication Ethics Statement

Legal Medicine Research fully adheres to the Code of Conduct and the Best Practice Guidelines of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

The Editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer-review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to guarantee to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, image manipulation, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. The Editors of Legal Medicine Research take such publishing ethics issues very seriously and are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use CrossCheck (powered by iThenticate) to check submissions against previous publications.

Journal Information and Statistics

Publication model: Gold Open Access
Frequency: Coming soon.
DOI: Coming soon.
Digital archive: Portico

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