Skip to main content
Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences
Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences Cover Image

Articles

Page 8 of 9

  2. In forensic entomology, a way to estimate Post Mortem Interval (PMI) is to use development data of the first colonizing insects on a dead body. Chrysomya albiceps and Calliphora vicina, two members of the family ...

    Authors: Mojtaba Salimi, Yavar Rassi, Mohamadali Oshaghi, Omid Chatrabgoun, Mojtaba Limoee and Sayena Rafizadeh
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2018 8:28
    Content type: Original Article Published on:

  3. Child sexual abuse, being most of the time a hidden crime that is kept lifelong undisclosed, was found to have strong influence on the victim. Unless a hard evidence (physical evidence, eyewitness, perpetrator...

    Authors: Dalia Mohammed Alsaif, Osama M. Almadani, Salah Ali Almoghannam, Maram A. Al-Farayedhi and Magdy A. Kharoshah
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2018 8:27
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  4. World Health Organization described, drowning as serious and neglected public health problem. Near about 42 people every hour and 3.7 lakh every year die from drowning in the world. In India out of total cases...

    Authors: Laxman Gangadhar Phad and Shailendra G. Dhawane
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2018 8:26
    Content type: Original Article Published on:

  5. In 1981, the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) was established with a clear purpose: to determine the fate of the missing Greek and Turkish Cypriots who disappeared during the periods 1963–64 and 19...

    Authors: Maria Ktori and Gülseren Baranhan
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2018 8:25
    Content type: Review Published on:

  6. Test bites have been recommended for collecting evidence of suspected dentition in bite mark analysis. However, these recommendations only suggest recording the interocclusal relationship without establishing ...

    Authors: Fernando Rivera-Mendoza, Stella Martín-de-las-Heras, Pablo Navarro-Cáceres and Gabriel M. Fonseca
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2018 8:24
    Content type: Original Article Published on:

  7. There are many cases that present to the emergency room as brought in dead (BID) and in such cases, previous medical history of the deceased is unknown. Many of the medical problems are either preventable or t...

    Authors: Francis Adedayo Faduyile, Sunday Sokunle Soyemi, Daniel Ayodele Sanni, Festus Edobor Emiogun, Fadesewa Ibiolagbajosi Osuolale and Kikelomo Ololade Wright
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2018 8:23
    Content type: Original Article Published on:

  8. Stature is one of the important aspects of biological profile for an unknown individual in forensic anthropology. As stature is population-specific, this study was conducted in Hospital Sungai Buloh, Hospital ...

    Authors: Normaizatul Afizah Ismail, Norakmal Hisyam Abd Khupur, Khairul Osman, Ab Halim Mansar, Mohamed Swarhib Shafie and Faridah Mohd Nor
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2018 8:22
    Content type: Original Article Published on:

  9. Unfortunately, after publication of this article (Chan and Ramli 2018), it was noticed that the Results section within the abstract was incomplete.

    Authors: Kar-Weng Chan and Suraya Hani Ramli
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2018 8:21
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2018 8:18

  10. The present work investigates the ridge characteristics and ridge density of fingerprints to determine gender differences among population of Punjab. The main characteristics studied were general pattern type,...

    Authors: Mukesh Kumar Thakar, Parveen Kaur and Tina Sharma
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2018 8:20
    Content type: Original Article Published on:

  11. Fingerprints have been successfully used for identification purposes for more than a century and remained one of the most commonly recovered evidence at the scene of crime. Due to their uniqueness and individu...

    Authors: Tanuj Kanchan and Kewal Krishan
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2018 8:19
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

  12. Pills of ecstasy continue to be the major drug of abuse among nightclub patrons. This stimulant type of substance can be taken orally in many ways, one of which is by drink spiking where the tablet or its powd...

    Authors: Kar-Weng Chan and Suraya Hani Ramli
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2018 8:18
    Content type: Original Article Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2018 8:21

  14. Today, the increasing number of crime and violence cases is defined as a universal health problem and nurses are the first healthcare personnel to encounter victims and offenders in hospitals, emergency units,...

    Authors: Emine Tuğba Topçu and Ebru Erek Kazan
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2018 8:16
    Content type: Original Article Published on:

  15. A prenatal paternity test is one widely-used method of determining the paternity of an unborn child. Such tests using chorionic villus or amniocentesis may increase the risk of harm to both mother and foetus. ...

    Authors: Agung Sosiawan, Dadik Raharjo, Indah Nuraini, Nadia Kartikasari, Alexander Patera Nugraha and Muhammad Dimas Aditya Ari
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2018 8:15
    Content type: Original Article Published on:

  16. The aim of this study was to analyze the trends related to homicide victims in central Bangkok, Thailand. These trends were analyzed in terms of general figures and demographics, as well as case-specific detai...

    Authors: Vorada Sakulsaengprapha, Vichan Peonim and Wisarn Worasuwannarak
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2018 8:14
    Content type: Original Article Published on:

  17. Opioids abuse and related deaths are increasing in the world. Therefore, the design of new analytical methods for detection of opioids in biological samples is necessary for clinical and forensic settings.

    Authors: Elham Alahyari, Mehrdad Setareh, Ahmad Shekari, Gholamreza Roozbehani and Kambiz Soltaninejad
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2018 8:13
    Content type: Original Article Published on:

  18. Death due to poisonous snakebite is a formidable health hazard. It is a matter of concern especially in agrarian countries. Clinically snakebite envenomation are neurotoxic and vasculotoxic. Krait (Bungarus facia...

    Authors: Naren Sarkar, Souvik Basu, Preeti Chandra, Soumeek Chowdhuri and Partha Pratim Mukhopadhyay
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2018 8:12
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  19. The images in this article (Al-Hawari & El-Banna 2017) have been obscured because they were deemed not suitable for publication in the journal under an open access Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationa...

    Authors: Hasan Al-Hawari and Asmaa El-Banna
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2018 8:11
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2017 7:5

  20. Mortality rates and causes of death of the detainees are hence different from those of the general population and there also vary according to regions and countries.

    Authors: Maher Jedidi, Mohamed Chérif El khal, Souheil Mlayeh, Mohamed Mahjoub, Zied Mezgar, Tasnim Masmoudi, Mohamed Ben Dhiab, Majed Zemni and Mohamed Kamel Souguir
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2018 8:10
    Content type: Original Article Published on:

  22. Suicide is a major public health concern resulting in premature deaths. The six years (2010–2015) retrospective study on suicide cases reported at a tertiary care center of Warangal district, Telangana, India ...

    Authors: Suchita Rawat, Pooran Chand Joshi, Maroof Ahmad Khan and Kallur Nava Saraswathy
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2018 8:8
    Content type: Original Article Published on:

  24. Occupational exposures to hazardous chemicals in paints cause serious health hazards in painters. The present study was designed to evaluate the possibility of hematotoxic and genotoxic effects of paint chemic...

    Authors: Nahed Abdel Maksoud, Khaled Abdel Aal, Nagwa Ghandour, Mona El-Baz and Eman Shaltout
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2018 8:6
    Content type: Original Article Published on:

  25. Ethical problems about end-of-life medicine include a variety of issues approached in different ways by physicians and, more recently, special emphasis to this kind of ethical issues and possible answers has d...

    Authors: Antonina Argo, Tommaso D’Anna, Antonietta Lanzarone and Luciano Sesta
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2018 8:5
    Content type: Original Article Published on:

  26. Sexual assault is a worldwide problem that has not yet been sufficiently acknowledged as confirmed by the literature. Italian law n.96, 1996, foreseeing norms regarding rape and sexual abuse, finally gave sign...

    Authors: S. Zerbo, L. Milone, E. Scalici, S. Procaccianti, R. Nardello, E. Ventura Spagnolo, D. Piscionieri and Antonina Argo
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2018 8:4
    Content type: Original Article Published on:

  27. In India, deaths related to burns are more common in women than in men. Fire is easily available weapon used by female for suicide. Most burns happen in low- and middle-income countries.

    Authors: Shashikant Vithobaji Dhoble, Rajesh Chandrabhan Dere, Arun Kumar Jaiswani and Ramesh Rangrao Savardekar
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2018 8:3
    Content type: Original Article Published on:

  30. Sequence divergence in mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I genes (COI) has been used as an efficient forensic tool in solving wildlife-related problems and also be used in molecular taxonomy for speci...

    Authors: Vikas Kumar, Neelkamal Sharma and Arun Sharma
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2017 7:31
    Content type: Original Article Published on:

  31. Estimation of the postmortem interval (PMI) is a critical issue in forensic science. Various approaches have been used to determine the PMI including physical, biochemical and entomological methods. Most of th...

    Authors: Hoda Abdelmagid Elghamry, Marwa Issak Mohamed, Fatma Mohamed Hassan, Dina Sabry Abdelfattah and Aly Gamaleldin Abdelaal
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2017 7:24
    Content type: Original Article Published on:

  32. Fruits and vegetables are daily staple food of human community. It is important to include fruits and vegetables in our daily diet to remain healthy and active. Even though fruits and vegetables are healthy, b...

    Authors: Vimukti Chauhan, Surbhi Tomar, Yanika Saini and R. M. Tripathi
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2017 7:30
    Content type: Original Article Published on:

  35. A great challenge arises when sex determination of human remains is needed, especially when only, bone fragments or isolated teeth are available; such as in mass disasters. Thus, the aim of the present work is...

    Authors: M. Kholief, S. El Shanawany and R. Gomaa
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2017 7:29
    Content type: Original Article Published on:

  36. The reduction of suicides in jails and prisons is an international priority and, after the publication of a report about the necessity to prevent the suicide risk, in Tuscany (Italy) was created a new biphasic...

    Authors: Annalisa Frangione, Letizia Bracali, Luca Rosi, Maria Mancino, Marisa Meschi, Nicola Nante and Gianmarco Troiano
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2017 7:28
    Content type: Original Article Published on:

  37. Detection of alcohol in postmortem blood and body fluids is of extreme importance in medico-legal investigation as it may affect and change the decision of the court in legal hearing. It can be a cause death o...

    Authors: Muataz Abdulmajeed Al-Qazzaz, Atheer Jawad Al-Saffar, Hayder Khadum Al-Rubai and Enas Muataz Al-Qazzaz
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2017 7:27
    Content type: Original Article Published on:

  38. In forensic sciences, the nature and variability of configurations of epidermal ridge minutiae has practically been explored in the evaluation and comparison of fingerprints, including partial fingerprints. Th...

    Authors: Lawan Hassan Adamu and Magaji Garba Taura
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2017 7:25
    Content type: Original Article Published on:

  39. Glass is the hard, amorphous solid. Glass fragments may be an evidence of great value encountered in the investigation of various types of offences. At the scene of occurrence, the glass may be fractured eithe...

    Authors: Abhimanyu Harshey, Ankit Srivastava, Vijay Kumar Yadav, Kriti Nigam, Amit Kumar and Tanurup Das
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2017 7:20
    Content type: Original Article Published on:

  40. In addition to the diagnostic and therapeutic use of excised human tissues in fixatives, the fixed tissues represent an invaluable resource that provide an incredible opportunity for the assessment of genetic ...

    Authors: Sami Ullah, Rakesh K. Garg and Farida Noor
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2017 7:23
    Content type: Review Published on:

  41. Identification of bony remains and other decomposed parts of human is of great importance not only for legal but also for humanitarian reasons. However, in certain instances due to burial factors or in cases o...

    Authors: Nazih Ramadan, Mervat Hamdy Abd El-Salam, Amani Fahmy Hanon, Naglaa Farid El-Sayed and Ahmed Yosri Al-Amir
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2017 7:22
    Content type: Original Article Published on:

  42. Commercial kits for Human Identification (HID) purposes, based on 15 short tandem repeat (STR) regions, allow the resolution of most forensic and paternity cases. However, some pitfalls arise in situations suc...

    Authors: Joaquín Alejandro Quiroz-Mercado, Ricardo Jesus Ríos-Rivas, Víctor Manuel Martínez-Sevilla, Gabriela Chávez-Marín, Hueman Jaimes-Díaz, Juan Carlos Santiago-Hernández, Rogelio Maldonado-Rodríguez and Héctor Rangel-Villalobos
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2017 7:19
    Content type: Original Article Published on:

  45. The so-called “herbal highs” are substances derived from natural plants with effects on the central nervous system. Lisergamide, ergine or LSA is the basis of different types of drugs, which are in seeds of Ipomo...

    Authors: Isabella Mercurio, Paola Melai, Daniele Capano, Gianluigi Ceraso, Luigi Carlini and Mauro Bacci
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2017 7:16
    Content type: Original article Published on:

  46. The microscopic examination of fired cartridge cases and fired bullets helps the expert to determine if a suspect firearm/firearms were, or were not, discharged in a shooting incident. This is achieved by usin...

    Authors: Devinderpal Singh Sehgal, Sandeep Singh Sahota, Navneet Kaur and Arshdeep Kaur
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2017 7:15
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  47. The PowerPlex® ESI 17 Fast and ESX 17 Fast Systems represent faster cycling versions released by Promega® to follow the requirements of ENFSI and EDNAP groups’ for new STR genotyping systems in Europe. Allele ...

    Authors: Elvira Ventura Spagnolo, Cristina Mondello, Salvatore Procaccianti, Simona Marretta, Stefania Zerbo, Alessio Asmundo and Antonella Argo
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2017 7:13
    Content type: Short Report Published on:

  48. According to the reports published by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) India, every year, the number of suicides are continuously increasing. The number of suicidal deaths in 2014 is 15.8% more than 2004.

    Authors: Kirtee K. Kamalja and Nutan V. Khangar
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2017 7:12
    Content type: Original Article Published on:

  49. Mr K, aged 48, was found sweating by his partner at home at 11.50 pm. He claimed to have attempted suicide. She immediately called the Emergency Unit to ask for support. At the phone, the physician on duty ind...

    Authors: Frédéric Aknouche, Emilie Guibert, Alison Tessier, Aude Eibel and Pascal Kintz
    Citation: Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences 2017 7:6
    Content type: Short Report Published on:
Submit manuscript

Affiliated with

Annual Journal Metrics

  • Citation Impact 2023
    Journal Impact Factor: 1.3
    5-year Journal Impact Factor: 1.3
    Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.156
    SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.443

    Speed 2023
    Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 18
    Submission to acceptance (median days): 144

    Usage 2023
    Downloads: 548,529
    Altmetric mentions: 190

Egyptian Knowledge Bank (EKB) Journals

New Content Item (1)

Visit our collection of Egyptian journals.

  • ISSN: 2090-5939 (electronic)