Forensic Sciences Research

Great News | 27 Editorial Board Members of FSR Listed in the Career-Long Top 2% Scientists Ranking and 28 in the 2025 Single-Year Ranking. Congratulations! researching.cn/fsr/journalne… #Top2PercentScientists #StanfordRanking #Research #Academia #Scientists #forensic #FSR

FSR published all International @IAFS2026 abstracts. Download: researching.cn/fsr/JournalCo… Use the search box to go directly to your article by article number, title, or author. Questions: [email protected] Thanks to authors & IAFS. #ForensicScience #OpenAccess #IAFS2026 #forensic #FSR

Issue Highlight! FSR Vol.11 Issue 2 is available online! 12 papers covering forensic anthropology, forensic odontology, forensic pathology, trace evidence, stable‑isotope food forensics, gunshot residue, etc. Welcome to read, retweet and cite! 👉 researching.cn/fsr/volumes/1…

FSR Vol. 11, No. 2 A new review in Forensic Sciences Research exposes a sharp paradox: Isotopes can “detect” fraud — but they cannot always “quantify” it to courtroom standards. Welcome read and share: researching.cn/articles/OJ8a… #ForensicScience #FoodFraud #StableIsotopes #FSR

FSR Vol. 11, No. 2 Research article An inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry methodology to estimate shooting distance based on distribution radius of GSR around the hole by Xiang Li researching.cn/articles/OJ88… #Forensic #elementalanalysis #gunshotresidue #shootingdistance

FSR Vol. 11, No. 2 Research article Estimating the population affinity allocations of South African crania using 3D-ID by Tamara Lottering, Desiré Brits, Ann H. Ross, and Candice Small researching.cn/articles/OJ2b… #ForensicAnthropology #PopulationAffinity #3DID #Craniometrics #FSR

FSR Vol. 11, No. 2 Research article Pollen in the courtroom: enhancing forensic palynology with quantitative modelling by Julia Webb, M. Jane Bunting and Michelle Farrell Read the full article: researching.cn/articles/OJfa… #forensics #pollen #taphonomy #forensicpalynology

3,665 cases of fatal falls from height. Only 1.6% were homicides. But identifying those 60 cases — often disguised as accidents — is where forensic pathology matters most. Del Duca et al. on the diagnostic protocol for homicidal falls. researching.cn/articles/OJ39… #ForensicPathology

FSR Vol. 11, No. 2 Research article Comparative analysis of Chaillet and Demirjian’s 8‑teeth method and Acharya’s population‑specific formula for dental age estimation in the Gujarati population of Western India by Shah et al. researching.cn/articles/OJba… #ForensicOdontology

Vol. 11, No. 2 Upper airway + AI = high-accuracy sex & age estimation from CBCT. Ni et al. measured 10 upper airway parameters in 440 adults. Decision tree achieved 96.3% sex accuracy; deep learning hit 100%. Read more: researching.cn/articles/OJ48… #ForensicImaging #CBCT #AI #FSR

2650 BC: Imhotep — the world's first forensic expert. 2026: Egyptian medical students train with GenAI. 4700 years of continuous forensic medicine education — Dina Ali Shokry on a remarkable story of continuity across civilisations. researching.cn/EN/HPArticle/… #Forensic #Education

1834: 37 medical schools taught forensic medicine in Britain. 2026: Most UK universities still don't recognise it at undergraduate level. Peter Vanezis OBE on where it went wrong — and how to fix it. researching.cn/HiringPubPDF/… #forensic #ForensicScience #MedicalEducation #UK #FSR

"The measure of a society lies not only in how it protects the living, but also in how it honoursthe dead." Humanitarian Forensic Action — forensic science in service of dignity, truth and memory. researching.cn/EN/HPArticle/… #HumanitarianForensicAction #ForensicScience #HumanDignity

Forensic science is a case-based, research-oriented, science-based endeavour to study traces — the remnants of past activities. This is not just a definition. It is a lifeline. Claude Roux on reclaiming forensic science as the science of traces. researching.cn/EN/HPArticle/… #Forensic

"AI performs best as decision-support, not decision-making." Sartori, Pietrini & Orrù review the evidence — from RAG-powered document review to suicide risk estimation — and map what AI can and cannot do. researching.cn/EN/HPArticle/… #ForensicPsychiatry #ForensicPsychology #AI #LLM

1968: 350 target analytes per urine sample. 2026: 750+ target analytes. Anti-doping has come a long way — but the race is far from over. Francesco Botrè (WADA lab director) in conversation with Guest Editor Santo Davide Ferrara. Open access: researching.cn/EN/HPArticle/… #Doping #FSR

What happens when a discipline expands from bones to genomes, from dead to living ? Cattaneo et al. critically assess the advances AND unmet needs of 21st-century forensic anthropology. A perspective, not just a review. researching.cn/EN/HPArticle/… #ForensicAnthropology #forensic #FSR

Honored to see TIAFT Past President Dimitri Gerostamoulos highlight Alan W. Jones' comprehensive review on the past, present & future of forensic toxicology — now in Forensic Sciences Research. researching.cn/EN/HPArticle/… #TIAFT #ForensicToxicology #FSR