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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
The role of a Medical Examiner Service in an acute NHS hospital: Perspectives from doctors and next of kin27
Book Review: Professor Peter Vanezis, Essential Forensic Medicine25
Legal and human rights issues in the use of electronic monitoring (using GPS ‘tracking’ technology) in forensic mental health settings in the UK19
The threat to our human rights: The repeal of the Human Rights Act 199814
The radiographic diversity of dental patterns among 7219 young individuals—a contribution to disaster victim identification13
COVID-19 Vaccination in those with mental health difficulties: A guide to assist decision-making in England, Scotland, and Wales11
A proposed method for differentiating knives from cut marks on bone: A forensic anthropological approach9
Contributory factors regarding childhood cycling fatalities in South Australia before and after the introduction of helmet legislation8
The role of Qatar's first forensic community team in reducing recidivism and re-admission of mentally unwell offenders8
Utilizing a combined hospital and criminal justice database to identify risk factors for repeat firearm injury or violent-crime arrest among firearm victims8
Traumatic inguinal hernia: Exploring the possible mechanism of its causation8
Scene of death investigation in apparent suicidal deaths in Rotterdam, the Netherlands7
Attempted homicide by instilling elemental mercury in the respiratory tract: A two-year follow-up7
Automatism: Are we throwing the baby out with the bathwater?7
Erratum7
RETRACTED: Research progress in the estimation of postmortem interval (PMI) using non-coding RNA (ncRNA) markers6
Court liaison and diversion services for people with neurodevelopmental conditions: A House of Lords consensus meeting6
Response to: The prone position paradox6
Compulsory vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 in health care professionals in Italy: Bioethical-legal issues5
Misconnected chest tube: An extremely unusual fatal complication of secondary pneumothorax5
Evaluation of autopsied refugee deaths in Izmir, Turkey5
Suicide attempts and deaths by self-immolation: A population-based study in Fars (Iran), 2011–20195
Over 30 years of liaison and diversion in England and Wales: How far have we come, and what is now needed?4
“The uncooperative nearest relative and admission under sections 2 and 3 of the Mental Health Act 1983”4
Book Review: Psychiatry in Trouble by James C. Beck4
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 Rome4
Age estimation in the combined long bones and ribs by histomorphometry: Past, present, and future4
Mental health care provision for segregated prisoners in England4
Sex determination using the clavicle by deep learning in a Thai population4
Emerging trends in domestic homicide/femicide in Greece over the period 2010–20214
Professor Nigel Eastman (1945–2022)4
An overview of suicides related to motor vehicles4
Current state of cause of death determinations in Japan and the need to list the precise underlying cause of death3
The UK's exportation of asylum obligations to Rwanda: A challenge to mental health, ethics and the law3
Forensic psychiatric evaluations of people charged with rape in Croatia3
The British Academy of Forensic Sciences: Diamond anniversary3
The significance of prostate-specific antigen in forensic examinations of sexual violence: A case report3
Deaths related to drowning in Antalya, an important tourism center in the Mediterranean region: A 10-year retrospective study3
Prison healthcare: The practical and ethical consequences of the current state of prisons3
Features of fatal pesticide ingestion in South Australia3
The impact of COVID-19 on clinical forensic medicine and forensic psychiatry: A literature review3
Workplace hazards in forensic mortuaries in Saudi Arabia: A survey of forensic mortuary personnel3
Thunder storm mortality: Issues of medicolegal concern3
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 3
Major organ loss from post-mortem animal predation: Issues arising from emptied body cavities2
Mental health in prisons in Latin America: The effects of COVID-192
An analysis of risk factors for child suicide in three centres from 2008 to 20172
England's rate of involuntary psychiatric admission is double that of the Republic of Ireland: Why? A consideration of some possible causes2
The relationship between biological parameters and facial soft tissue thickness measured by ultrasound and its forensic implications2
Fatal hyperthermia among children in school buses: Analysis of 47 cases in China2
Parricide and homicide NGRI offenders: How do they differ?2
Assigned sex estimation with the clavicle and scapula: A study in a Portuguese reference sample2
Book review: Gender competent public law and policies by Marko Davinić and Svetislav Kostić2
Age-related changes in the hyoid bone: An autopsy-based radiological analysis2
Deep learning and morphometric approach for Sex determination of the lumbar vertebrae in a Thai population2
An examination of service user satisfaction in forensic mental health settings2
Response to: Response to: Prone restraint cardiac arrest: A comprehensive review of the scientific literature and an explanation of the physiology2
Work-related and non-work-related fatal road accidents: Assessment of psychoactive substance use in commuting2
The UK's Illegal Migration Bill: Human rights violated2
Women falling from heights in Turkey—can the Latin American model protocol help them?2
Forensic and psychopathological framing of complex suicides: A retrospective study over the last 30 years2
The “Right” to refuse treatment2
Police perspectives on the economic considerations of providing healthcare in short-term custodial settings in Australia2
Changes in the characteristics of suicide in Japan in the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic and the importance of continued suicide prevention measures2
Consent for sexual acts and rape offences: A dangerous international difformity2
The criminalisation of miscarriage associated with illicit substance consumption whilst pregnant2
The right to mourn: Post-traumatic stress and the forensic pathologist2
Alec Samuels (1930–2022)2
Health implications of the UK’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda: Evidence from medico-legal reports2
Correction of a statistical error: The data does not show Letby's presence at the baby deaths could have occurred by chance2
Artefacts due to putrefactive gas production – an overview2
Applicability of the Suchey–Brooks method for age estimation in an Indian population: A computed tomography-based exploration using Bayesian analysis and machine learning2
The three-parent baby: Medicolegal, forensic and ethical concerns2
Age estimation using medial clavicle by histomorphometry method with artificial intelligence: A review2
A meta-analysis on the effects of incarceration-based opioid substitution treatment1
Developments in forensic pathology and science – A memory1
Procedural justice and forensic mental health: An introduction and future directions1
Estimating age from digital radiographic images of lumbar vertebrae in a Thai population using an image analysis technique1
The Abolition of ‘Discharge By Operation of Law’ – patients detained under sections 3 and 37, Mental Health Act 19831
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 and forensic pathology1
Trends in motorcycle accident mortality in Lagos: Consequences of government policy changes1
Seat belt injuries and external markings at autopsy in cases of lethal vehicle crashes1
Initiating further measures to prevent traffic accidents in Japan: The use of a social medicine perspective1
When missing becomes murder: An analysis of missing-femicide cases from the Republic of Ireland1
Methamphetamine use in homicide victims1
To confront sexual violence, we must train non-forensic experts to perform medico-legal evaluations1
Victim–perpetrator relationship, age and method of homicide in intimate and non-intimate cases of femicide from the republic of Ireland1
Forensic considerations in nonthrombotic pulmonary embolism: A case report and review1
Suicides following an earthquake: Japanese proposals arising from post-earthquake analyses1
Dying alone1
Cognitive and human factors in legal layperson decision making: Sources of bias in juror decision making1
Stature estimation from the scapula measurements using 3D-volume rendering technique by regression equations in the Northern Indian population1
RECAPACITA PROJECT: Impact of the New York Convention on capacity modification judgments in persons with severe mental disorders: A comparative study using mixed methodology1
The British Academy of Forensic Sciences at 601
Filicide in South Asia: Demography, risk factors, psychiatric, and legal aspects1
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
Ethical considerations regarding mental disorder and medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in the prison population1
An analysis of offence patterns and legal response to one-punch fatalities in Australia1
The prone position paradox1
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 abuse1
Increased incidence of mixed drug toxicity deaths involving tapentadol – A forensic study1
Analytical methods for the determination of xylazine in pharmaceutical, clinical and forensic matrices – A review1
A review of the estimation of postmortem interval using forensic entomology1
Changes in suicide trends among young populations during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan and Taiwan1
Applicability of the six-phase method for auricular age estimation in an Indian population: A CT-based study1
Role of forensic medicine in addressing the war crimes: Perspective from Russia-Ukraine conflict during the COVID-19 pandemic1
The need to histologically exclude the cystic atrioventricular node tumour1
Recidivism risk in male adult sex offenders with psychopathic traits assessed by PCL-R: A systematic review1
Experts, who needs them? Judicial inconsistency in instruction, admission and interpretation of forensic expertise1
Without a trace: Long-term missing women and girls and ‘no-body’ femicides from the Republic of Ireland1
Issues and problems involving acid attacks against male victims in India1
Fatal cerebral air embolism post esophageal endoscopy with dilatation: A case report1
A methodological comparison of discriminant function analysis and binary logistic regression for estimating sex in forensic research and case-work1
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