Digital Investigation
Elsevier · 2004
Identifier: ISSN 1742-2876
Access and status
Cost
Paywalled
Behind a subscription or per-item charge. Check whether your firm, university or public library already has access before paying at the door.
Status
Superseded or dormant
Superseded, replaced or no longer being updated. The archive may still be worth reading, but do not cite it as current practice.
What it is
The predecessor title of Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation. It published from 2004 to 2019 under ISSN 1742-2876 and then the title changed; there is no new content under this name.
Who it is for, and when
You need this entry for citation work, not for reading the latest research. Roughly fifteen years of load-bearing digital forensics literature — Garfinkel's 2010 agenda paper, the DFRWS corpora paper, the CASE specification paper, the data-volume papers — carries 'Digital Investigation' in its citation, and opposing counsel will notice if you cite the wrong journal name for the wrong year. Use this title for anything published 2019 or earlier and the FSI title for 2020 onwards.
What it does not cover
It publishes nothing at all any more, so it is useless as a current-awareness source. Articles are still on ScienceDirect behind the same Elsevier paywall as the successor title.
Go to the source
Open at sciencedirect.com (opens in a new tab)https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/digital-investigation
Details
- Type
- Journal
- Written for
- AdvancedWorking examinerAdvanced, Working examiner
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Year
- 2004
- Identifier
- ISSN 1742-2876
- Topics
- research-publishing, foundations
- Checked at source
Related entries
The report from the first Digital Forensic Research Workshop, held in 2001, which set out a research agenda and a shared vocabulary for a field that at that point had neither. It is the document that proposed the examination process framework and the term 'digital forensic science', and it is conventionally cited as Palmer (2001); DFRWS's own page for it names no individual author.
Simson Garfinkel's 2010 paper in Digital Investigation arguing that the 'golden age' of digital forensics was ending and naming the forces that would end it: storage volume, device and format diversity, pervasive encryption, cloud storage and mobile platforms. It is one of the most cited papers in the field.
The post-conference edited volumes of the annual IFIP Working Group 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics, published by Springer as the numbered Advances in Digital Forensics series. Volume XX covers the twentieth conference and appeared in 2025; the working group's site lists the twenty-third conference for January 2027, so the series is live.
A defunct early journal of the field. IJDE published from Volume 1, Issue 1 (Spring 2002) to Volume 6, Issue 1 (Spring 2007) out of Utica College's Economic Crime Institute, and then stopped; the original utica.edu address now redirects away and there is no live journal site.
The annual meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, a multidisciplinary body of over 6,500 members organised into twelve sections, one of which is Digital & Multimedia Sciences. The 79th Annual Scientific Conference is scheduled for 15-20 February 2027 at the Rosen Shingle Creek Hotel in Orlando, Florida.