Forensic Science International

Article	Citations
Violence against women in the Covid-19 pandemic: A review of the literature and a call for shared strategies to tackle health and social emergencies	116
The Sydney declaration – Revisiting the essence of forensic science through its fundamental principles	91
A DWT-SVD based robust digital watermarking for medical image security	79
Providing illicit drugs results in five seconds using ultra-portable NIR technology: An opportunity for forensic laboratories to cope with the trend toward the decentralization of forensic capabilitie	42
Isotonitazene: Fatal intoxication in three cases involving this unreported novel psychoactive substance in Switzerland	36
Fatal methemoglobinemia: A case series highlighting a new trend in intentional sodium nitrite or sodium nitrate ingestion as a method of suicide	36
Operationalising forensic genetic genealogy in an Australian context	31
Determination of cannabinoids in urine, oral fluid and hair samples after repeated intake of CBD-rich cannabis by smoking	30
Age estimation in the living: A scoping review of population data for skeletal and dental methods	30
Chemsex/slamsex-related intoxications: A case report involving gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) and 3-methylmethcathinone (3-MMC) and a review of the literature	30
Wildlife forensics: A boon for species identification and conservation implications	29
Contrasting insect activity and decomposition of pigs and humans in an Australian environment: A preliminary study	29
Carfentanil – from an animal anesthetic to a deadly illicit drug	28
Fatal intoxication related to two new arylcyclohexylamine derivatives (2F-DCK and 3-MeO-PCE)	27
A forensic analysis on 53 cases of complex suicides and one complicated assessed at the Bureau of Legal Medicine of Milan (Italy)	27
Bitten or struck by dog: A rising number of fatalities in Europe, 1995–2016	26
Analysis of pharmaceutical products and dietary supplements seized from the black market among bodybuilders	24
Surface enhanced Raman scattering specificity for detection and identification of dried bloodstains	23
Trends in counterfeit drugs and pharmaceuticals before and during COVID-19 pandemic	22
Testing the accuracy and reliability of palmar friction ridge comparisons – A black box study	22
Postmortem submersion interval (PMSI) estimation from the microbiome of Sus scrofa bone in a freshwater river	22
Technical Note: The Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe (FASE) Map of Identified Osteological Collections	22
A different perspective on the forensic science crisis	22
Investigation into the prevalence of background DNA on flooring within houses and its transfer to a contacting surface	22
High-field and benchtop NMR spectroscopy for the characterization of new psychoactive substances	21

Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in post-mortem swab 35 days after death: A case report	21
Bone age estimation with the Greulich-Pyle atlas using 3T MR images of hand and wrist	21
Forensic undergraduate education during and after the COVID-19 imposed lockdown: Strategies and reflections from India and the UK	20
Deep learning analysis and age prediction from shoeprints	20
Study of the distribution of antidepressant drugs in vitreous humor using a validated GC/MS method	19
Food forensics: Techniques for authenticity determination of food products	19
A novel approach to 3D modelling ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data – A case study of a cemetery and applications for criminal investigation	19
DNA recovery from unfired and fired cartridge cases: A comparison of swabbing, tape lifting, vacuum filtration, and direct PCR	19
Detecting volatile organic compounds to locate human remains in a simulated collapsed building	19
Digital transformation risk management in forensic science laboratories	19
Laser scanner and drone photogrammetry: A statistical comparison between 3-dimensional models and its impacts on outdoor crime scene registration	18
On the discrimination of soil samples by derivative diffuse reflectance UV–vis-NIR spectroscopy and chemometric methods	18
Forensic genetic genealogy using microarrays for the identification of human remains: The need for good quality samples – A pilot study	18
A dataset for evaluating blood detection in hyperspectral images	17
Comparative study on diatom morphology and molecular identification in drowning cases	17
Recognition of gasoline in fire debris using machine learning: Part I, application of random forest, gradient boosting, support vector machine, and naïve bayes	17
Characterization and classification of water-based compounds in condoms and personal hygiene products using GC-MS	17
Determination of nitrite and nitrate in postmortem whole blood samples of 10 sodium nitrite poisoning cases: The importance of nitrate in determining nitrite poisoning	17
Quantifying visible absorbance changes and DNA degradation in aging bloodstains under extreme temperatures	17
Epidemiology and autopsy findings of 500 drowning deaths	17
Application of a UPLC-MS/MS method for quantitative analysis of 29 synthetic cannabinoids and their metabolites, such as ADB-BUTINACA and MDMB-4en-PINACA in human hair in real cases	17
Method development for the identification of methoxpropamine, 2-fluoro-deschloroketamine and deschloroketamine and their main metabolites in blood and hair and forensic application	17
A “turn-off” fluorescent sensor based on electrospun polycaprolactone nanofibers and fluorene(bisthiophene) derivative for nitroaromatic explosive detection	16
Wastewater analysis of psychoactive drugs: Non-enantioselective vs enantioselective methods for estimation of consumption	16
A comprehensive analytical process, from NPS threat identification to systematic screening: Method validation and one-year prevalence study	16
Optimization of QuEChERS extraction for detection and quantification of 20 antidepressants in postmortem blood samples by LC-MS/MS	16
Simple implementation of muscle tissue into routine workflow of blood analysis in forensic cases – A validated method for quantification of 29 drugs in postmortem blood and muscle samples by UHPLC–MS/	16
Analysis of condom evidence in forensic science: Background survey of the human vaginal matrix using DRIFTS and pyrolysis-GC/MS	16
Dental age assessment based on CBCT images using machine learning algorithms	16
Accuracy and reproducibility of conclusions by forensic bloodstain pattern analysts	16
Evaluating the performance of five up-to-date DNA/RNA co-extraction methods for forensic application	16
A retrospective study on femicides assessed at the Institute of Legal Medicine of Milan. Are older women at risk?	16
Application of MALDI MS imaging after sequential processing of latent fingermarks	15
CRISPR/Cas9: Regulations and challenges for law enforcement to combat its dual-use	15
Root Dentin Translucency and Forensic International Dental Database: Methodology for estimation age-at-death in adults using single-rooted teeth	15
Pairwise kinship testing with microhaplotypes: Can advancements be made in kinship inference with these markers?	15
Fatal intoxication involving 4-methylpentedrone (4-MPD) in a context of chemsex	15
Seizures of New Psychoactive Substances on the Italian territory during the COVID-19 pandemic	15
DNA methylation analysis of ELOVL2 gene using droplet digital PCR for age estimation purposes	15
Analysis of drug residue in needle-exchange syringes in Washington, D.C.	15
Re-examining so-called ‘secondary identifiers’ in Disaster Victim Identification (DVI): Why and how are they used?	15
The persistence and stability of miRNA in bloodstained samples under different environmental conditions	15
Utilization of accelerator and reactor based nuclear analytical techniques for chemical characterization of automobile windshield glass samples and potential of statistical analyses using trace elemen	15
A minimal number CpGs of ELOVL2 gene for a chronological age estimation using pyrosequencing	15
Biasability and reliability of expert forensic document examiners	15
A 70-year study of femicides at the Forensic Medicine department, University of Bologna (Italy)	15
Synthetic cannabinoids in e-liquids: A proton and fluorine NMR analysis from a conventional spectrometer to a compact one	14
Postmortem radiologic and pathologic findings in COVID-19: The Toronto experience with pre-hospitalization deaths in the community	14
Analysis of volatile components in inkjet printouts by GC–MS: A classification method	14
Assessing optical remote sensing for grave detection	14

Emerging nuclear methods for historical painting authentication: AMS-14C dating, MeV-SIMS and O-PTIR imaging, global IBA, differential-PIXE and full-field PIXE mapping	14
Judges and forensic science education: A national survey	14
Estimation of the post-mortem interval of human skeletal remains using Raman spectroscopy and chemometrics	14
Measuring calibration of likelihood-ratio systems: A comparison of four metrics, including a new metric devPAV	14
Forensic 3D printing from micro-CT for court use- process validation	14
Assessment of chemical asphyxia caused by toxic gases generated from rigid polyurethane foam (RPUF) fires	14
Collecting data on textiles from the internet using web crawling and web scraping tools	14
The forensic holodeck – Recommendations after 8 years of experience for additional equipment to document VR applications	14
Determination of cathinone and cathine in Khat plant material by LC–MS/MS: Fresh vs. dried leaves	14
Use of post-mortem chest computed tomography in Covid-19 pneumonia	14
Rapid analysis of gunshot residues with single-particle inductively coupled plasma time-of-flight mass spectrometry	14
A threshold LC–MS/MS method for 92 analytes in oral fluid collected with the Quantisal® device	13
Characteristics of fatal ‘novel’ benzodiazepine toxicity in Australia	13
Challenges for cocaine detection in smuggling samples	13
Guidelines for the use and statistical analysis of the Home Office fingermark grading scheme for comparing fingermark development techniques	13
Computed tomographic age estimation from the pubic symphysis using the Suchey-Brooks method: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis	13
Determination of synthetic cannabinoids in randomly urine samples collected from probationers in Turkey	13
Contemporary issues in forensic science—Worldwide survey results	13
Fatal anaphylactic shock: A review of postmortem biomarkers and diagnostics	13
Sodium nitrite poisoning: A series of 20 fatalities in which post-mortem blood nitrite and nitrate concentrations are reported	13
Using digital humanities and linguistics to help with terrorism investigations	13
Findings from machine learning in clinical medical imaging applications – Lessons for translation to the forensic setting	13
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC): Cemetery planning, preparation and management during COVID-19: A quick guide to proper documentation and disposition of the dead	13
Propranolol and metoprolol: Two comparable drugs with very different post-mortem toxicological profiles	13
Familial DNA analysis and criminal investigation: Usage, downsides and privacy concerns	13
Incorporation of five common hypnotics into hair after a single dose and application to a forensic case of drug facilitated crimes	13
Assessment of the link between evidence and crime scene through soil bacterial and fungal microbiome: A mock case in forensic study	13
Multiplex detection of 14 fentanyl analogues and U-47700 in biological samples: Application to a panel of French hospitalized patients	13
Chemical and statistical analyses of blotter paper matrix drugs seized in the State of Rio de Janeiro	12
Droplet impact of blood and blood simulants on a solid surface: Effect of the deformability of red blood cells and the elasticity of plasma	12
A method for measuring the quality of friction skin impression evidence: Method development and validation	12
Canine olfactory detection of trained explosive and narcotic odors in mixtures using a Mixed Odor Delivery Device	12
Intrinsic and extrinsic factors that may influence DNA preservation in skeletal remains: A review	12
Detecting recent forgeries of Impressionist and Pointillist paintings with high-precision radiocarbon dating	12
Investigating the chemical impurity profiles of fentanyl preparations and precursors to identify chemical attribution signatures for synthetic method attribution	12
Determination of twenty herbicides in blood by ultrapressure liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry	12
Forensic soil source identification: comparing matching by color, vis-NIR spectroscopy and easily-measured physio-chemical properties	12
Animal scavenging on pig cadavers in the Lowveld of South Africa	12
Lag time of modern bomb-pulse radiocarbon in human bone tissues: New data from Brazil	12
Real time object-based video forgery detection using YOLO (V2)	12
Features of digitally captured signatures vs. pen and paper signatures: Similar or completely different?	12
In vitro characterization of new psychoactive substances at the μ-opioid, CB1, 5HT1A, and 5-HT2A receptors—On-target receptor potency and efficacy, and off-target effects	12
Analysis of the influence of EDTA-treated reference samples on forensic bloodstain age estimation	12
Pregabalin and gabapentin in non-opioid poisoning deaths	12
Sex classification of first molar teeth in cone beam computed tomography images using data mining	12
Direct and specific analysis of nitrite and nitrate in biological and non-biological samples by capillary ion analysis for the rapid identification of fatal intoxications with sodium nitrite	12
Microbiome analysis: An emerging forensic investigative tool	12
The use of portable XRF as a forensic geoscience non-destructive trace evidence tool for environmental and criminal investigations	11
Assessment of the exclusion potential of suspects by using microbial signature in sexual assault cases: A scenario-based experimental study	11
A 9-year retrospective study of poisoning-related deaths in Southwest China (Sichuan)	11
Fundamental study of porcine drip bloodstains on fabrics: Blood droplet impact and wicking dynamics	11
Cannabis potency in North-East Italy: A ten-year study (2010–2019)	11
Performance and comparison of the London Atlas technique and Cameriere’s third molar maturity index (I3M) for allocating individuals below or above the threshold of 18 years	11
Sharp force fatalities: Differentiating homicide from suicide through a retrospective review (2012–2019) of autopsy findings in Lisbon (Portugal)	11
Entrapment of drugs in dental calculus – Detection validation based on test results from post-mortem investigations	11
Why do latent fingerprint examiners differ in their conclusions?	11
Methamphetamine-related postmortem cases in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia	11
Prevalence of DNA of regular occupants in vehicles	11
Development of DNA databases in Latin America	11
Measurement uncertainty in quantifying delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in blood using SPE and LC/MS/MS	11
Thermal decomposition of CBD to Δ9-THC during GC-MS analysis: A potential cause of Δ9-THC misidentification	11
"MALDI-CSI": A proposed method for the tandem detection of human blood and DNA typing from enhanced fingermarks	11
Angle of impact determination from bullet holes in a metal surface	11
Three-dimensional superimposition of digital models for individual identification	11
An assessment of the potency related to Cannabis-based products in the South African market	11
Age estimation of immature human skeletal remains from mandibular and cranial bone dimensions in the postnatal period	11
GHB related acids are useful in routine casework of suspected GHB intoxication cases	11
Touch DNA recovery from unfired and fired cartridges: Comparison of swabbing, tape lifting and soaking	11
Fingermark detection using upconverting nanoparticles and comparison with cyanoacrylate fuming	11
A review on touch DNA collection, extraction, amplification, analysis and determination of phenotype	10
Micro-CT for the examination of paediatric rib injuries: A case series	10
Screening of new psychoactive substances in human plasma by magnetic solid phase extraction and LC-QTOF-MS	10
Portable near infrared spectroscopy for the isomeric differentiation of new psychoactive substances	10
Prevalence study of drugs and new psychoactive substances in hair of ketamine consumers using a methanolic direct extraction prior to high-resolution mass spectrometry	10
Determination of antidepressants and benzodiazepines in paired hair and nail samples	10
Temporal patterns of tramadol in hair after a single dose	10
Temporal variability of the rove beetle (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) community on small vertebrate carrion and its potential use for forensic entomology	10
The importance of human osteological collections: Our past, present, and future	10
A large-scale evaluation of intraperson isotopic variation within human bone collagen and bioapatite	10
Post COVID-19 vaccine deaths - Singapore’s early experience	10

A formalized model of the Trace	10
The need for standards and certification for investigative genetic genealogy, and a notice of action	10
The utility of dust for forensic intelligence: Exploring collection methods and detection limits for environmental DNA, elemental and mineralogical analyses of dust samples	10
Total body water is the preferred method to use in forensic blood-alcohol calculations rather than ethanol’s volume of distribution	10
How changes to the substrate’s physical characteristics can influence the deposition of touch and salivary deposits	10
Score-based likelihood ratios for linguistic text evidence with a bag-of-words model	10
Sex estimation by tooth dimension in a contemporary Spanish population	10
Facial soft tissue thickness differences among different vertical facial patterns	10
Frequency of postmortem ethanol formation in blood, urine and vitreous humor – Improving diagnostic accuracy with the use of ethylsulphate and putrefactive alcohols	10
Accurate prediction of saw blade thicknesses from false start measurements	10
Assessment of the knife penetration resistance of single and double-layer metal reinforced fabrics	10
Tissue sample analysis for post mortem determination of brain edema	10
Pharmacological and metabolic characterization of the novel synthetic opioid brorphine and its detection in routine casework	10
Enhancing the evidential value of textile fibres Part 2: Application of a database-driven fibre comparison strategy to a cold-case investigation	10
Novel extraction method using an ISOLUTE PLD+ protein and phospholipid removal column for liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry analysis of 20 psychoactive drugs in postmortem whole blood sam	10
Stereoselective analysis of ephedrine and its stereoisomers as impurities and/or by-products in seized methamphetamine by supercritical fluid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry	10
SYBR Green real-time qPCR method: Diagnose drowning more rapidly and accurately	10
Fatal coastal drowning incidents: A 10-year review of body recovery times in New Zealand	10
Forensic cases of suspected dog and cat abuse in the Community of Madrid (Spain), 2014–2019	10
Combining wavelength importance ranking to the random forest classifier to analyze multiclass spectral data	10
Condom evidence: Characterisation, discrimination and classification of pyrolysis-GC-MS profiles	10
Genetic association study of a novel indel polymorphism in HSPA1B with the risk of sudden cardiac death in the Chinese populations	9
Estimation of time since death after a post-mortem change in ambient temperature: Evaluation of a back-calculation approach	9
Detection of scopolamine in urine and hair in a drug-facilitated sexual assault	9
Not so simple: Understanding the complexities of establishing identity for cases of unidentified human remains in an Australian medico-legal system	9
AK bullet (7,62 × 39 mm) ricochet off flat, wooden targets; A forensic-based study	9
Towards more relevance in forensic science research and development	9
Examination of methadone involved overdoses during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Application of aquatic decomposition scores for the determination of the Post Mortem Submersion Interval on human bodies recovered from the Northern Adriatic Sea	9
Persistence of touch DNA on commonly encountered substrates in different storage conditions	9
The future of the forensic science providers – Time to re-think our structures?	9
Determination of morphine, codeine, and thebaine concentrations from poppy seed tea using magnetic carbon nanotubes facilitated dispersive micro-solid phase extraction and GC-MS analysis	9
“Light cannabis” consumption in a sample of young adults: Preliminary pharmacokinetic data and psychomotor impairment evaluation	9
Effects of external influences on synthetic cannabinoid trends in New Zealand, 2014 to 2020	9
Temperature dynamics in different body regions of decomposing vertebrate remains	9
Influence of the printing process on the traces produced by the discharge of 3D-printed Liberators	9
ITS barcoding using high resolution melting analysis of Cannabis sativa drug seizures in Chile: A forensic application	9
Dental age estimation based on DNA methylation using real-time methylation-specific PCR	9
Older adult abuse in a service for sexual and domestic violence: Medico-legal implications from the experience of an Italian center	9
Simultaneous LC-MS/MS screening for multiple phenethylamine-type conventional drugs and new psychoactive substances in urine	9
Prediction of minimum postmortem submersion interval (PMSImin) based on eukaryotic community succession on skeletal remains recovered from a lentic environment	9
Identification of a Slovenian prewar elite couple killed in the Second World War	9
Fast and simultaneous analysis of carbamate pesticides and anticoagulant rodenticides used in suspected cases of animal poisoning	9
Overview of cocaine identification by vibrational spectroscopy and chemometrics	9
Drug consumption of suspected drug-influenced drivers in Hungary (2016–2018)	9
From facial images of different quality to score based LR	9
Objective colour analysis from digital images as a nuclear forensic tool	9
The role of ethanol in fatalities in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia	8
Ethics reporting in forensic science research publications – A review	8
Can forensic science learn from the COVID-19 crisis?	8
The comparison of cardiopulmonary resuscitation-related trauma: Mechanical versus manual chest compressions	8
Evaluations and comparisons of microbial diversities in four types of body fluids based on two 16S rRNA gene sequencing methods	8
The incidence of psychoactive substances and alcohol among impaired drivers in Denmark in 2015–2019.	8
Evidence of exposure to organophosphorus toxicants by detection of the propionylated butyrylcholinesterase-derived nonapeptide-adduct as a novel biomarker	8
Rapid and non-destructive analysis of eye-cosmetics using ATR-FTIR spectroscopy and chemometrics	8
Likelihood ratio estimation for authorship text evidence: An empirical comparison of score- and feature-based methods	8
Assessment of the accuracy of 3D printed teeth by various 3D printers in forensic odontology	8
Conventional diatom testing using strong acid: Notable false-positive results caused by an underestimated contamination source (blind spot)	8
New evidence of high association between carbohydrate deficient transferrin (CDT) and alcohol-related road traffic accidents. A retrospective study on 929 injured drivers	8
Analysis of 28 hair samples from users of the hallucinogenic beverage ayahuasca	8
Post mortem blood bromazolam concentrations and co-findings in 96 coronial cases within England and Wales	8
A preliminary investigation of transfer of condom lubricants in the vaginal matrix	8
French soldiers who died during both World Wars: from recovery to repatriation	8
Comparative study of ATR and DRIFT infrared spectroscopy techniques in the analysis of soil samples	8
Age estimation from the biometric information of hand bones: Development of new formulas	8
Summary statistics for drugs and alcohol concentration recovered in post-mortem femoral blood in Western Switzerland	8
A generalised Bayes' factor formula for evidence evaluation under activity level propositions: Variations around a fibres scenario	8
Cost-effective straightforward method for captured whole mitogenome sequencing of ancient DNA	8
Species identification of teeth of human and non-human	8
Software for the trajectory analysis of blood-drops: A systematic review	8
Stability of selected microRNAs in human blood, semen and saliva samples exposed to different environmental conditions	8
Whole human blood DNA degradation associated with artificial ultraviolet and solar radiations as a function of exposure time	8
Simultaneous quantitative analysis of 39 common toxicological drugs for increased efficiency in an ante- and postmortem laboratory	8
Bayesian multivariate models for case assessment in dynamic signature cases	8
Gender differences in driving under the influence of psychoactive drugs: Evidence mapping of real case studies and meta-analysis	8
Dietary higenamine from Annonaceae family fruits as a possible source of unintentional doping	8
Verifying authorship for forensic purposes: A computational protocol and its validation	8
Identity discs: The recovery and identification of First World War soldiers located during archaeological works on the former Western front	8
Replacing Synperonic® N in the Physical Developer fingermark visualisation process: Reformulation	8
Determination of the R- and S-enantiomers of methylone and ethylone in seized drugs by enantioselective liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry analysis	8
Latent print quality in blind proficiency testing: Using quality metrics to examine laboratory performance	8
Spanish Civil War: The recovery and identification of combatants	8
Identification of a novel bromoindazole synthetic cannabinoid analogue in seized e-cigarette liquid: ADB-BRINACA	8
Comparison of NIR powders to conventional fingerprint powders	8
Raman spectroscopy for the determination of forensically important bio-fluids	8
Technical note: Survey of extracellular and cell-pellet-associated DNA from ‘touch’/trace samples	8
Recognition of gasoline in fire debris using machine learning: Part II, application of a neural network	8
The effect of submersion in different types of water on the survival and eclosion of blow-fly intra-puparial forms (Diptera: Calliphoridae)	8
Study on development of forensic blood substitute: Focusing on bloodstain pattern analysis	8
Advances toward validating examiner writership opinion based on handwriting kinematics	8
Fatal poisoning by accidental ingestion of the “heartbreak grass” (Gelsemium elegans) verified by toxicological and medico-legal analyses	8
Prevalence of cathinones and other new psychoactive substances in hair of parents and children of families with known or suspected parental abuse of conventional illegal drugs	8
DNA-free does not mean RNA-free—The unwanted persistence of RNA	7
Production of artificial fingermarks. Part I – Synthetic secretions formulation	7
Vacuum metal deposition enhancement of friction ridge detail on ballistic materials	7