Journal of Legal Medicine


The Journal of Legal Medicine is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering legal medicine and medical law. It was established in 1979 and is published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the American College of Legal Medicine, of which it is the official journal. The editor-in-chief is Richard J. Kelly. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 0.500, ranking it 34th out of 38 journals in the category "Biomedical Social Sciences".