Medicine Science and the Law

Papers
(The median citation count of Medicine Science and the Law is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Detection of bloodstains using attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy supported with PCA and PCA–LDA23
Prevalence and potential consequences of child labour in India and the possible impact of COVID-19 – a contemporary overview23
Dental age estimation: Demirjian’s versus the other methods in different populations. A literature review23
Methamphetamine deaths: Changing trends and diagnostic issues18
Third molar maturity index and legal age in different ethnic populations: Accuracy of Cameriere’s method16
Prone restraint cardiac arrest: A comprehensive review of the scientific literature and an explanation of the physiology16
Cognitive and human factors in legal layperson decision making: Sources of bias in juror decision making14
The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in mHealth: Theoretical and practical aspects for practitioners’ use13
How well do Regulation 28 reports serve future public health and safety?12
ChatGPT: Forensic, legal, and ethical issues12
Male victims of sexual abuse and domestic violence: A steadily increasing phenomenon12
Violence against women in heterosexual couples: A review of psychological and medico-legal considerations12
Femoral blood concentrations of the designer benzodiazepine etizolam in post-mortem cases12
Zebrafish larvae: A new model to study behavioural effects and metabolism of fentanyl, in comparison to a traditional mice model10
Complex and complicated suicides in Friuli (1993–2017)10
Drug transfer during intimate moments: A key issue in doping control that can be documented by hair tests of the athlete and the partner9
Validating dental age estimation in Kenyan black children and adolescents using the Willems method8
Role of forensic medicine in addressing the war crimes: Perspective from Russia-Ukraine conflict during the COVID-19 pandemic8
Monozygotic twins: Identical or distinguishable for science and law?7
The UK's exportation of asylum obligations to Rwanda: A challenge to mental health, ethics and the law7
Mortality in Prisons: The Experience of the Bureau of Legal Medicine of Milan (Italy) (1993–2017)7
Deep learning and morphometric approach for Sex determination of the lumbar vertebrae in a Thai population6
Informing reform: The views of legal professionals on the unique aspects of Scottish Law6
Emerging trends in domestic homicide/femicide in Greece over the period 2010–20216
Comparison of sex determination using three methods applied to the greater sciatic notch of os coxae in a Thai population: Dry bone morphology, 2-dimensional photograph morphometry, and deep learning 6
Alcohol-associated traffic injuries in Verona territory: A nine-year survey6
Methamphetamine use and the risk of diabetic ketoacidosis5
The right to mourn: Post-traumatic stress and the forensic pathologist5
The development and testing of Thai facial soft tissue thickness data in three-dimensional computerized forensic facial reconstruction5
Forensic age estimation using conventional radiography of the medial clavicular epiphysis: A systematic review4
Ethical considerations regarding mental disorder and medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in the prison population4
England's rate of involuntary psychiatric admission is double that of the Republic of Ireland: Why? A consideration of some possible causes4
Post-mortem analysis of gunshot wounds to the head and thorax in dogs by computed tomography, radiography and forensic necropsy4
The workload of a medical examiner service at an acute National Health Service hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic: The Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital experience4
A methodological comparison of discriminant function analysis and binary logistic regression for estimating sex in forensic research and case-work4
Age-related changes in the hyoid bone: An autopsy-based radiological analysis4
Mental health in prisons in Latin America: The effects of COVID-194
Policies and practice in the disclosure of medical error: Insights from leading countries to address the issue in Italy4
Chemsex-related crime and vulnerability: A public health and criminal justice priority4
Policing mental illness: Police use of section 136 – Perspectives from police and mental-health nurses4
Major organ loss from post-mortem animal predation: Issues arising from emptied body cavities4
Evaluation of the relationship between the detectability of seminal stains on laundered fabric and stain age4
Consultation between forensic and clinical pathologists for histopathology examination after forensic autopsy3
Carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotope ratios reveal geographic affinity and dietary status of Ajnala skeletal remains: A forensic anthropological study3
Autopsy findings of suicidal hanging in Mugla, Turkey3
Response to: Response to: Prone restraint cardiac arrest: A comprehensive review of the scientific literature and an explanation of the physiology3
Potential significance of swastika tattoos in a medico-legal setting3
Emerging issues in the approach to submerged bodies: Water-related deaths in Friuli, northeastern Italy (1993–2020). Analysis of post-mortem reports and some unusual cases3
Testing regression and mean model approaches to facial soft-tissue thickness estimation3
Glass table tops: An unusual source of lethal domestic injury3
Sex estimation from biometric face photos for forensic purposes3
Histotopography of haemorrhagic infiltration in the hanging cutaneous furrow: Where to look for haemorrhagic infiltration in hanging3
Resizing reaction volumes for the ForenSeq™ DNA Signature Prep kit library preparation3
How different countries respond to adverse events whilst patients’ rights are protected3
Developing a clinical pathway for traumatic stress in prisons3
Advancing research in adult secure mental health services in England3
A meta-analysis on the effects of incarceration-based opioid substitution treatment3
Lethal mechanisms in cases of inverted suspension from the lap component of seat belts3
Over 30 years of liaison and diversion in England and Wales: How far have we come, and what is now needed?3
Identification of skeletal remains by orthopaedic implant: A case report and brief review of the literature3
Personality disorders and forensic assessments: The benefits of ICD-113
Increased incidence of mixed drug toxicity deaths involving tapentadol – A forensic study2
The prone position paradox2
Education and training in forensic medicine in United Kingdom: Fit for purpose?2
Filicide in South Asia: Demography, risk factors, psychiatric, and legal aspects2
Deaths associated with wheelchairs2
Workplace hazards in forensic mortuaries in Saudi Arabia: A survey of forensic mortuary personnel2
Explosion fatalities in Sweden, 2000–20182
The criminalisation of miscarriage associated with illicit substance consumption whilst pregnant2
Response to: Prone restraint cardiac arrest – A comprehensive review of the scientific literature and an explanation of the physiology2
An overview of suicides related to motor vehicles2
Legal and human rights issues in the use of electronic monitoring (using GPS ‘tracking’ technology) in forensic mental health settings in the UK2
The role of a Medical Examiner Service in an acute NHS hospital: Perspectives from doctors and next of kin2
Prison-based democratic therapeutic communities, medication, and the power to exclude2
A retrospective cohort study describing characteristics of those repeatedly detained under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act over a 5-year period and the association with past abuse2
Issues and problems involving acid attacks against male victims in India2
Trends in motorcycle accident mortality in Lagos: Consequences of government policy changes2
Provision of forensic healthcare services for police custodial settings in England, Wales and Northern Ireland: Current practice and implications for other services?2
Thunder storm mortality: Issues of medicolegal concern2
Do not resuscitate: Lawful or unlawful?2
Casper’s sign in the elderly2
Professor Nigel Eastman (1945–2022)2
Court liaison and diversion services for people with neurodevelopmental conditions: A House of Lords consensus meeting2
The Italian ‘holistic’ vision of forensic medicine and science2
Custodial deaths seen in the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Lagos, Nigeria: An 11-year autopsy study2
Knowledge of evidence-based practices for PTSD among mental health court judges2
Manual scavenging and the right to health in India – social and medicolegal perspectives2
Exploring the prevalence of personality disorder and the feasibility of using the SAPAS as a screening tool for personality disorder in an emergency department in India2
Estimating age from digital radiographic images of lumbar vertebrae in a Thai population using an image analysis technique2
Victim–perpetrator relationship, age and method of homicide in intimate and non-intimate cases of femicide from the republic of Ireland2
Humanitarian forensic action in aviation disasters: Managing personal effects2
Assigned sex estimation with the clavicle and scapula: A study in a Portuguese reference sample2
Diagnostic accuracies of CTs, X-rays and Lodox to detect blunt force trauma in adults, using a pig model2
Compulsory vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 in health care professionals in Italy: Bioethical-legal issues2
Blood alcohol concentration and road accidents: Underestimation due to time of the arrival to the emergency department (ED) or delay in blood sampling. A 4-Year Retrospective Study in Rome2
Morphological cardiac changes in electrocution deaths: A literature review2
Age estimation in the combined long bones and ribs by histomorphometry: Past, present, and future1
High-dose benzodiazepine dependence among health-care professionals: A neglected phenomenon1
Utilizing a combined hospital and criminal justice database to identify risk factors for repeat firearm injury or violent-crime arrest among firearm victims1
Research ethics committees: A forum where scientists, editors, and policymakers can cooperate during pandemics1
Evaluation of autopsied refugee deaths in Izmir, Turkey1
School violence in Saudi Arabia: A scoping review1
McKern-Stewart method as a technique for analysing age related pubic symphyseal changes: A systematic review and meta-analysis1
Suicides following an earthquake: Japanese proposals arising from post-earthquake analyses1
Accusations of witchcraft: A form of violence against women in Nepal1
Forensic issues arising in the assessment of chlorine-related deaths in a domestic setting1
Changes in the characteristics of suicide in Japan in the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic and the importance of continued suicide prevention measures1
Health implications of the UK’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda: Evidence from medico-legal reports1
Acute necrotising duodenitis1
The UK's Illegal Migration Bill: Human rights violated1
Suicide attempts and deaths by self-immolation: A population-based study in Fars (Iran), 2011–20191
Unexpected death involving the spleen – an overview1
Sex determination using the clavicle by deep learning in a Thai population1
Establishment of a national DNA database in the Republic of Serbia: Legal aspects and implications for the future1
RETRACTED: Research progress in the estimation of postmortem interval (PMI) using non-coding RNA (ncRNA) markers1
Double suicide in Japan in the post-war reconstruction period, with reference to contemporary Japan1
A proposed method for differentiating knives from cut marks on bone: A forensic anthropological approach1
Silos and rigid processes: Barriers to the successful implementation of the Older prisoner Health and Social Care Assessment and Plan1
Foreword to the proceedings of the 43rd National Congress of the Italian Society of Legal and Insurance Medicine (SIMLA), Verona, 20181
Lethal giant basal cell carcinoma1
Extradition and mental health: The need for multidisciplinary review and research1
Complaints against health care professionals providing police custodial and forensic medical/health care services in England, Wales and Northern Ireland – what do we know?1
Recidivism risk in male adult sex offenders with psychopathic traits assessed by PCL-R: A systematic review1
Work-related and non-work-related fatal road accidents: Assessment of psychoactive substance use in commuting1
The relationship between biological parameters and facial soft tissue thickness measured by ultrasound and its forensic implications1
Specific measures to enhance suicide prevention in Japan1
The threat to our human rights: The repeal of the Human Rights Act 19981
Fatal cerebral air embolism post esophageal endoscopy with dilatation: A case report1
Scene of death investigation in apparent suicidal deaths in Rotterdam, the Netherlands1
Death following extreme temperature exposure: Histological, biochemical and immunohistochemical markers1
Response to: The prone position paradox1
Changes in the nature and outcome of notifications to HM Coroner from the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, UK, before and after the introduction of a medical examiner service: 2018 versus 201
How often is autopsy contributory in cases of sepsis?1
RETRACTION NOTICE: A study of elderly unnatural deaths in medico-legal autopsies at Lucknow locality1
Philemon and Baucis deaths: A case of two siblings and state of the art1
Death and dignity in India and Nepal during the second wave of Coronavirus disease 20191
Diagnosing coronary thrombosis using multiphase post-mortem CT angiography (MPMCTA): A case study1
Methamphetamine use in homicide victims1
COVID-19: A systematic evaluation of personal protective equipment (PPE) performance during restraint1
Current state of cause of death determinations in Japan and the need to list the precise underlying cause of death1
Features of fatal pesticide ingestion in South Australia1
Characteristics of acid attacks involving children in India1
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