Aim & Scope

The Turkish Journal of Forensic Medicine is the official publication of the Republic of Turkiye Ministry of Justice Council of Forensic Medicine. It’s the aim of the Turkish Journal of Forensic Medicine to help the achievement of the goals for the Council of Forensic Medicine which are supporting the studies on forensic medicine and sciences, improving the practice, making contributions to information sharing, ensuring continuity of education and research. 

The Turkish Journal of Forensic Medicine is the official publication of the Republic of Turkiye Ministry of Justice Council of Forensic Medicine. It’s the aim of the Turkish Journal of Forensic Medicine to help the achievement of the goals for the Council of Forensic Medicine which are supporting the studies on forensic medicine and sciences, improving the practice, making contributions to information sharing, ensuring continuity of education and research. In the field of forensic medicine and sciences original studies like original research, review, brief report, technical note, case report and letter to the editor are published after the review of 2 independent referees and the editor. Materials published previously are not accepted. The Turkish Journal of Forensic Medicine is published triannually in April, August and December. The Journal is intended primarily for forensic medicine residents and specialists, forensic sciences (toxicology, genetics, forensic document, ballistics etc.) assistants and specialists including police and gendarmerie personnel working on criminal field, judges, prosecutors, lawyers, other physicians, nurses and independent experts. The Turkish Journal of Forensic Medicine is indexed by the “Turkey Citation Index” and “TUBITAK ULAKBİM Medical Database”, Crossref, Scilit, ScienceGate, Researchgate, Fatcat and Google Scholar. After the articles sent to the Turkish Journal of Forensic Medicine are pre-reviewed by the editor, the articles fulfilling the criteria of the Journal are sent to at least 2 independent referees without stating any author or institution name. Although there is no definite time interval given for publishing the accepted articles, publication takes place in 3-9 months. The last versions of the articles accepted by the referees are sent to the corresponding author in a PDF format for the approval. Corresponding author is responsible to correct any factual errors in the article so long as not to make any scientific changes. Besides, corresponding author is responsible to send the corrections or the statement that no correction is needed in 48 hours to the editor@ adlitipdergisi.com address after receiving the PDF formatted article. Languages of The Turkish Journal of Forensic Medicine are Turkish and English.

Period Months
April August December
Creative Commons Lisansı

Turkish Journal of Forensic Medicine is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Our journal has adopted the Open Access Policy, and no fees will be charged from the authors at any stage of the publication for the articles submitted.