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Addiction is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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ISSN 0965-2140Verify ISSN ↗1360-0443Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,600 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 31 / 580 | 94th | Q1 |
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 39 / 466 | 91st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.
Addiction is Q1 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 31 of 580) and Q1 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 39 of 466), by CiteScore 2025.
Addiction is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 11, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.399, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 232.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,600 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Addiction is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0965-2140 and its online ISSN is 1360-0443.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Addiction has an h-index of 279 and a 2-year mean of 3.85 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #65 of 570 Scopus journals in Psychiatry and Mental Health.
Addiction published 362 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 448. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (34.1%), United Kingdom (16.9%) and Australia (16.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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