1. GITAD 2020: quality assurance test through 20 years of experience

   • Juan Carlos Álvarez
   • Christian Haarkötter
   • José Antonio Lorente

   Original Article Open access 22 February 2022 Pages: 659 - 670

   

2. Exploring statistical weight estimates for mitochondrial DNA matches involving heteroplasmy

   • Jennifer A. McElhoe
   • Peter R. Wilton
   • Mitchell M. Holland

   Original Article 04 March 2022 Pages: 671 - 685

   

3. About the influence of environmental factors on the persistence of DNA — a long-term study

   • Micaela Poetsch
   • Philipp Markwerth
   • Janine Helmus

   Short Communication Open access 23 February 2022 Pages: 687 - 693

   

4. Repeated poisoning of the life partner by thallium — a case of questionable Munchausen by adult proxy syndrome with ensuing attempted murder

   • Fritz Pragst
   • Sven Hartwig

   Case Report 22 February 2022 Pages: 695 - 704

   

5. Third trimester intrauterine fetal death: proposal for the assessment of the chronology of umbilical cord and placental thrombosis

   • Maria Paola Bonasoni
   • Barbara Muciaccia
   • Rossana Cecchi

   Original Article Open access 11 February 2022 Pages: 705 - 711

   

6. Fatal diving: could it be an immersion pulmonary edema? Case report

   • France Evain
   • Pierre Louge
   • Frédéric Rouyer

   Case Report Open access 14 March 2022 Pages: 713 - 717

   

7. Post mortem computed tomography meets radiomics: a case series on fractal analysis of post mortem changes in the brain

   • Fabio De-Giorgio
   • Gabriele Ciasca
   • Vincenzo L. Pascali

   Original Article Open access 03 March 2022 Pages: 719 - 727

   

8. Error estimation on extracorporeal trajectory determination from body scans

   • F. Riva
   • U. Buck
   • W. Kerkhoff

   Short Communication Open access 23 August 2021 Pages: 729 - 737

   

9. Performance of three mathematical models for estimating age-at-death from multiple indicators of the adult skeleton

   • Nicolene Jooste
   • Samantha Pretorius
   • Maryna Steyn

   Original Article 12 November 2021 Pages: 739 - 751

   

10. Assessment of renal glomerulosclerosis and thickness of the carotid intima-media complex as a means of age estimation in Western European bodies

    • Carl Daniel Lehmann-Leo
    • Frank Ramsthaler
    • Marcel A. Verhoff

    Original Article Open access 13 November 2021 Pages: 753 - 763

    

11. Mathematically optimal decisions in forensic age assessment

    • Petter Mostad
    • Andreas Schmeling
    • Fredrik Tamsen

    Original Article Open access 15 December 2021 Pages: 765 - 776

    

12. Magnetic resonance imaging of the proximal tibial epiphysis is suitable for statements as to the question of majority: a validation study in forensic age diagnostics

    • Daniel Wittschieber
    • Natia Chitavishvili
    • Hans-Joachim Mentzel

    Original Article Open access 28 December 2021 Pages: 777 - 784

    

13. CT-based evaluation of the acetabulum for age estimation in an Indian population

    • Varsha Warrier
    • Tanuj Kanchan
    • Rutwik Shedge

    Original Article 10 January 2022 Pages: 785 - 795

    

14. Forensic bone age estimation of adolescent pelvis X-rays based on two-stage convolutional neural network

    • Li-Qin Peng
    • Yu-cheng Guo
    • Ya-Hui Wang

    Original Article 18 January 2022 Pages: 797 - 810

    

15. Population-specific age estimation in Black Americans and Chinese people based on pulp chamber volume of first molars from cone beam computed tomography

    • Han Du
    • Gang Li
    • Jie Yang

    Original Article 19 January 2022 Pages: 811 - 819

    

16. With or without human interference for precise age estimation based on machine learning?

    • Mengqi Han
    • Shaoyi Du
    • Yu-cheng Guo

    Original Article 14 February 2022 Pages: 821 - 831

    

17. Validation of a post-mortem computed tomography method for age estimation based on the 4th rib in a French population

    • Marie-Edith Richard
    • Tania Delabarde
    • Joseph Benzakoun

    Original Article 01 March 2022 Pages: 833 - 839

    

18. Forensic age prediction and age classification for critical age thresholds via 3.0T magnetic resonance imaging of the knee in the Chinese Han population

    • Xiao-Dong Deng
    • Ting Lu
    • Zhen-Hua Deng

    Original Article 08 March 2022 Pages: 841 - 852

    

19. Forensic age assessments of alleged unaccompanied minors at the Medicolegal Institute of Montpellier: a 4-year retrospective study

    • Maisy Lossois
    • Catherine Cyteval
    • Pierre-Antoine Peyron

    Original Article 12 March 2022 Pages: 853 - 859

    

20. Evaluation of the effect of impaction on the mineralization of mandibular third molars and forensic age estimation in a sample of south Indian children

    • Sudheer Babu Balla
    • Venkata Ratna Sushuma Kollata
    • Alekya Palla

    Population Data 15 October 2021 Pages: 861 - 869

    

21. Forensic biomarkers of lethal traumatic brain injury

    • Johann Zwirner
    • Rachel Kulakofsky
    • Benjamin Ondruschka

    Review Open access 28 February 2022 Pages: 871 - 886

    

22. Taphonomic study on drowned victims in a non-sequestered aquatic environment in the Mediterranean Sea

    • Lorenzo Franceschetti
    • Andrea Palamenghi
    • Cristina Cattaneo

    Original Article 20 November 2021 Pages: 887 - 895

    

23. Experimental characterisation of porcine subcutaneous adipose tissue under blunt impact up to irreversible deformation

    • Felicitas Lanzl
    • Fabian Duddeck
    • Steffen Peldschus

    Original Article Open access 04 December 2021 Pages: 897 - 910

    

24. Concordance analysis of diatom types and patterns in lung tissue and drowning medium in laboratory animal model

    • Yukun Du
    • Jingjian Liu
    • Jian Zhao

    Original Article 10 January 2022 Pages: 911 - 917

    

25. Creation of a Forensic Pathology Biobank in Switzerland: which issues and research opportunities?

    • K. Wiskott
    • F. Gilardi
    • T. Fracasso

    Original Article 21 January 2022 Pages: 919 - 922

    

26. Spatio-temporal distribution and habitat preference of necrophagous Calliphoridae based on 160 real cases from Switzerland

    • Jiri Hodecek
    • Pavel Jakubec

    Original Article Open access 22 January 2022 Pages: 923 - 934

    

27. SARS-CoV-2 viral load and replication in postmortem examinations

    • Simone Grassi
    • Vincenzo Arena
    • GEMELLI AGAINST COVID-19 group

    Original Article 24 January 2022 Pages: 935 - 939

28. A preliminary study on early postmortem submersion interval (PMSI) estimation and cause-of-death discrimination based on nontargeted metabolomics and machine learning algorithms

    • Fu-Yuan Zhang
    • Lin-Lin Wang
    • Da-Wei Guan

    Original Article 31 January 2022 Pages: 941 - 954

    

29. The Identified Skeleton Collection of Évora: importance for forensic science and bioarchaeology in the southern inland of Portugal

    • Célia Lopes
    • Teresa Fernandes

    Short Communication 22 October 2021 Pages: 955 - 962

    

30. Body-kun/body-chan style model figures for artists in forensic visualization applications

    • Stefan Potente
    • Sara Heinbuch
    • Peter Schmidt

    Method Paper Open access 14 February 2022 Pages: 963 - 968

    

31. Letter to the Editor regarding the article ‘ER stress-related protein, CHOP, may serve as a biomarker of mechanical asphyxia: a primary study’ by Hu and colleagues

    • Alberto Chighine
    • Emanuela Locci
    • Ernesto d’Aloja

    Letter to the Editor Open access 01 March 2022 Pages: 969 - 970

32. Correction to: A stepwise strategy to distinguish menstrual blood from peripheral blood by Fisher’s discriminant function

    • Hongxia He
    • Anquan Ji
    • Qifan Sun

    Correction 07 March 2022 Pages: 971 - 972

33. Correction to: Repeated poisoning of the life partner by thallium — a case of questionable Munchausen by adult proxy syndrome with ensuing attempted murder

    • Fritz Pragst
    • Sven Hartwig

    Correction 09 March 2022 Pages: 973 - 973