Journal profile · Medicine-Health Policy
Issues in Law & Medicine
ISSN 8756-8160 · eISSN 2377-6463 · National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent and Disabled Inc · UNITED STATES
Issues in Law & Medicine: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.22; subscription journal; 5 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Issues in Law & Medicine is published by National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent and Disabled Inc and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Ethics in medical practice, Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues and Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare, together about 47.1% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
ILM JAHM publishes biomedical empirical research, scholarly in depth legal analysis, legal case synopses, and in depth scholarly ethical analysis after double anonymized peer review.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Medicine-Health Policy
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Ethics in medical practiceHealth Professions20.2%
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life IssuesMedicine14.3%
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric HealthcareMedicine12.6%
- Empathy and Medical EducationMedicine6.7%
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental HealthPsychology5.9%
- Reproductive Health and TechnologiesMedicine5%
- Reproductive Health and ContraceptionMedicine4.2%
- Medical Malpractice and Liability IssuesHealth Professions4.2%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Law | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Law | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Law | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 0.22LetPub ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.8LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.15LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.34LetPub ·
- h-index
- 14LetPub ·
- h-index
- 1OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 0OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.09OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 4LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 79 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| 2024 | 6 | 4 | 1 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer review, Open peer reviewPublisher website
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent and Disabled Inc
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- ISSN
- 8756-8160
- Electronic ISSN
- 2377-6463
- Society / sponsor
- Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 41, Issue 1 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Issues in Law & Medicine
What CAS zone is Issues in Law & Medicine in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Issues in Law & Medicine is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Law. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Issues in Law & Medicine?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 0.22; CiteScore 0.8, h-index 1.
Which databases index Issues in Law & Medicine?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Issues in Law & Medicine is indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Is Issues in Law & Medicine open access, and what is the APC?
Issues in Law & Medicine is a subscription journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .