- Open access ยท CC BY 4.0
- ISSN 2692-5915
- Published by Open Access Pub
About the Journal of Advanced Forensic Sciences
The Journal of Advanced Forensic Sciences (JAFS) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that publishes research across the forensic sciences. It has been published by Open Access Pub since 2020.
Purpose and readership
Evidence that can be trusted
JAFS serves forensic scientists, laboratory and medicolegal practitioners, digital investigators, researchers and educators who rely on sound evidence about how forensic findings are obtained, interpreted and reported.
JAFS publishes research on how physical, biological, chemical and digital evidence is recovered, analyzed, interpreted and reported, from the laboratory bench and the scene to the courtroom. The journal covers the forensic sciences as a whole and considers work from every region of the world.
Its aims are to publish methodologically sound research that strengthens forensic practice, to advance the validation, reliability and interpretation of forensic methods, and to make the results freely available to everyone who can use them.
The journal welcomes contributions from forensic chemistry, toxicology, biology and DNA analysis, pattern and human-identification evidence, forensic pathology and medicine, firearms and engineering, documents and digital evidence, and the field and behavioral forensic sciences. Analytical methods and their validation are one area among these, and method development is welcome in every area. The Aims and Scope page describes the scope and eligibility in full.
Article types
- Original Research
- Method Validation Study
- Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
- Review
- Short Communication
- Technical Note
- Data Note
- Case Report
- Commentary
- Letter
Preparation guidance for each type is given in the Instructions for Authors.
Journal register
Reference information on the journal's identity, publisher, editorial responsibility, rights, review, fees and preservation.
ISSN
2692-5915
- Full title
- Journal of Advanced Forensic Sciences
- Short title JAFS. ISSN 2692-5915.
- Publication history
- Since 2020
- Volume 1, Issue 1 was published on February 7, 2020.
- Access
- Open access
- Every article is free to read, download and share from the day of publication, with no subscription or registration.
- License and copyright
- CC BY 4.0
- Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Authors retain copyright.
- Peer review
- Single-blind by default
- Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request.
- Article processing charge
- By article type
- USD 990, USD 1,200, USD 1,890 or USD 2,190, payable only after acceptance; withdrawal after submission is subject to the journal's withdrawal policy. See Article Processing Charges.
- Persistent identifiers
- DOI prefix 10.14302
- Articles receive DOIs registered with Crossref.
- Research integrity
- Crossref Similarity Check
- Submitted manuscripts are screened with Crossref Similarity Check, powered by iThenticate.
- Preservation
- Portico
- JAFS articles will be deposited in Portico for long-term preservation.
Editorial responsibility
The Editor-in-Chief leads the journal's editorial direction and oversees its decisions, supported by an international editorial board of forensic researchers and practitioners who handle manuscripts within their expertise and advise on the journal's scope and policies.
Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal. They are independent of the article processing charge and of any fee-relief inquiry. Editors with a conflict of interest are recused from handling the manuscript.
Peer review
All submissions undergo initial editorial screening. Manuscripts that meet the journal's scope and minimum requirements proceed to independent peer review. Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request. Manuscripts that proceed to external peer review are normally evaluated by at least two independent subject-matter experts. The full process is set out in the Editorial Policies.
Open access, preservation and discovery
Open access and copyright
Free to read and reuse
JAFS is an open-access journal. All articles are freely available on openaccesspub.org from the day of publication, without subscription or registration.
Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0), which permits anyone to read, download, copy, distribute, adapt and reuse the work for any lawful purpose, provided the authors and the original publication are credited. Authors retain copyright in their work and may deposit any version of their article, including the published version, in institutional or subject repositories without embargo.
Preservation and discovery
A lasting, citable record
JAFS articles will be deposited in Portico, a not-for-profit digital-preservation archive, so that the published record remains available for the long term. Read our preservation policy.
Each article is assigned a Crossref DOI, and article metadata are openly available to scholarly discovery services. The Indexing page lists the records and services in which JAFS and its articles appear.
Contact
Editorial office
Questions about the journal, its policies or a manuscript can be sent to the editorial office of JAFS at Open Access Pub.
- info@openaccesspub.org
- Publisher
- Open Access Pub, openaccesspub.org
- For authors
- Instructions for Authors and Article Processing Charges