Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology

Indexing

EmbaseUp to January 2025

The journal is also indexed or abstracted in many other international databases.

Aims and scope

The journal covers forensic medicine, forensic science, toxicology, DNA fingerprinting, sexual medicine, environmental medicine, forensic pathology, legal medicine and public health laws.

Scope areas

Forensic Medicine & Pathology
Forensic Toxicology & Analytical Sciences
Clinical & Legal Medicine
DNA Fingerprinting
Sexual Medicine
Environmental Medicine
Public Health Laws

Before you submit. The journal does not publish standalone survey results. Submissions need a clear hypothesis and conclusive findings.

What the journal aims to do

Publish high-quality research.
Advance forensic practice.
Address medico-legal and ethical issues.
Foster interdisciplinary research.
Promote professional education.
Encourage international perspectives.

Targeted audience

Forensic practice

Forensic physicians and pathologists

Science

Forensic scientists and toxicologists

Research

Researchers

Medicine

Medical professionals

Law

Legal and law-enforcement personnel

Mental health

Forensic psychologists and psychiatrists

Government

Government agencies

Publication schedule

The journal is published quarterly, with four issues a year. Manuscripts can be submitted at any time.

Issue 1

January–March

Published each year

Issue 2

April–June

Published each year

Issue 3

July–September

Published each year

Issue 4

October–December

Published each year

For authors: journal policies

Copyright and licensing policy

The copyright and licensing policy for the Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology (IJFMT) is as follows:

Copyright ownership: Authors retain copyright ownership of their work after publication in IJFMT. However, they grant the journal an exclusive Creative Commons licence.
Creative Commons licence: The authors grant IJFMT the right to exclusively apply a Creative Commons licence to their work upon publication. This licence permits use, distribution, and reproduction of the work in any medium, provided that the original work and its source are properly cited. The specific licence applied is https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en which allows for attribution, non-commercial use, and derivative works.
Editorial research: Authors grant the journal the right to analyse information obtained from submitted manuscripts for editorial research purposes. This analysis aims to improve the peer review process, teaching, and training activities.
Warranties: Authors warrant that their work is original, contains no libellous statements, is lawful, and does not infringe upon any copyright, trademark, patent, or proprietary rights of others. Authors agree to indemnify the editors against any costs, expenses, and damages arising from any breach of this warranty.
Views and opinions: The views and opinions expressed in the article are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the journal.

Archiving policy

IJFMT became an open access journal in 2020. All issues published after 2020 are archived in repositories such as PKP PN (Public Knowledge Project), LOCKSS, CLOCKSS, Crossref and EBSCOhost, and on the journal websites (IJFMT and OJS).

The journal is archived through Portico, a trusted digital preservation service for scholarly publications. If the journal ceases publication, Portico ensures that the archived content will remain accessible to the scholarly community.

Authors seeking full-length articles, abstracts, reference lists, or citation information for specific articles, not accessible on databases like EMBASE, Google Scholar or EBSCOhost, are encouraged to contact the editorial office at editor.ijfmt@gmail.com. We are pleased to offer these supplementary materials free of charge.

IJFMT maintains all versions of submitted manuscripts in its database. The versions are maintained by email, on hard drives or within the OJS system.

Open access

Free to read and reuse

This is an open access journal, which means all content is freely available without charge. Content can be read, downloaded, copied, distributed, printed, searched and linked to without permission from the publisher or author, in line with the BOAI definition of open access.

Funding

How the journal is supported

Revenue comes from print copies supplied to colleges and universities, author charges, and advertising and sponsorship. See the advertising page.

Open access statement

The Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology is an open access journal. Its content is freely available to everyone, in line with the definition of open access in the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI).

By “open access” to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.

Source: Budapest Open Access Initiative, 2002. Articles are published under the CC BY-NC 4.0 licence, and authors retain copyright.

Processing charges

Article category	Indian and South Asian authors	Foreign authors
Original research, systematic reviews, narrative reviews	₹5,000	USD 100
Case reports, short communications, letters to the editor, policy briefs	₹3,000	USD 50

There is no submission fee. Processing charges apply only if an article is accepted, and authors who do not want to pay may withdraw.

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. (Dr.) S K Dhattarwal

Professor & HOD, Forensic Medicine, World College of Medical Science, Jhajjar, Haryana

Meet the full editorial team

Contact

Institute of Medico-Legal Publications
Logix Office Tower, Unit No. 1704, Logix City Centre Mall,
Sector-32, Noida-201 301 (Uttar Pradesh)

Mobile: +91-8826599604 · Landline: 0120-4294015

www.imlp.in

Indian Journal ofForensic Medicine & Toxicology

October–December 2026 issue is online

Published quarterly, open for submissions all year

Open access, with authors keeping copyright

Indexed in leading research databases

October–December 2026

July–September 2026

April–June 2026

January–March 2026

October–December 2025

July–September 2025

About the journal

Indexing

Aims and scope

Scope areas

What the journal aims to do

Targeted audience

Forensic physicians and pathologists

Forensic scientists and toxicologists

Researchers

Medical professionals

Legal and law-enforcement personnel

Forensic psychologists and psychiatrists

Government agencies

Publication schedule

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

For authors: journal policies

Copyright and licensing policy

Self-archiving policy

Archiving policy

Free to read and reuse

How the journal is supported

Open access statement

Processing charges

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. (Dr.) S K Dhattarwal

Contact