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International Journal of Legal Medicine
H-index 20

International Journal of Legal Medicine

0937-9827

Published by: Springer

https://www.springer.com/journal/414

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Medicine 2249 28 45 11

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 112
Documents by Best Scientists*: 175
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index: 98
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.931
Impact Factor: 2.3

Top Publications

  • Postmortem imaging findings and cause of death determination compared with autopsy: a systematic review of diagnostic test accuracy and meta-analysis

    Garyfalia Ampanozi;Delaja Halbheer;Lars C. Ebert;Michael J. Thali

    (2020)
    74 Citations
  • Postmortem investigation of fatalities following vaccination with COVID-19 vaccines.

    Julia Schneider;Lukas Sottmann;Andreas Greinacher;Maximilian Hagen

    (2021)
    44 Citations
  • A review of visualization techniques of post-mortem computed tomography data for forensic death investigations

    Lars Christian Ebert;Sabine Franckenberg;Till Sieberth;Wolf Schweitzer

    (2021)
    37 Citations
  • Fast microglial activation after severe traumatic brain injuries.

    Julia Lier;Benjamin Ondruschka;Ingo Bechmann;Jan Dreßler

    (2020)
    23 Citations
  • SARS-CoV-2 viral load and replication in postmortem examinations

    (2022)
    18 Citations
  • Reevaluation of ambiguous genetic variants in sudden unexplained deaths of a young cohort

    (2023)
    17 Citations
  • Third molar eruption in orthopantomograms as a feature for forensic age assessment—a comparison study of different classification systems

    (2023)
    13 Citations
  • The relevance of body mass index in forensic age assessment of living individuals: an age-adjusted linear regression analysis using multivariable fractional polynomials.

    Maximilian Timme;André Karch;Denys Shay;Christian Ottow

    (2020)
    12 Citations
  • Multiorgan tropism of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7.

    Benjamin Ondruschka;Fabian Heinrich;Maja Lindenmeyer;Carolin Edler

    (2021)
    11 Citations
  • Age-dependent gene expression of Calliphora vicina pupae (Diptera: Calliphoridae) at constant and fluctuating temperatures

    (2021)
    11 Citations

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