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The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 27, 2023
Entity authorityQ25245469 ↗
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The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering forensic psychiatry and psychology. It was established in 1990 as the Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, obtaining its current name in 2003. The editor-in-chief is Jenny Shaw (University of Manchester). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2018 impact factor of 0.942.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.