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Addiction Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Wiley-Blackwell.
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ISSN 1355-6215Verify ISSN ↗1369-1600Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 96 / 466 | 79th | Q1 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 144 / 580 | 75th | Q1 |
| Pharmacology | 106 / 328 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.9.
Addiction Biology is Q1 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 96 of 466), Q1 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 144 of 580) and Q2 in Pharmacology (rank 106 of 328), by CiteScore 2025.
Addiction Biology is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 5.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.921, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 101.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,150 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 Biology is published by Wiley-Blackwell. Its print ISSN is 1355-6215 and its online ISSN is 1369-1600.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Addiction Biology has an h-index of 118 and a 2-year mean of 2.48 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #127 of 451 Scopus journals in Medicine (miscellaneous).
Addiction Biology published 125 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 165. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (34.3%), United States (30.8%) and Germany (6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.7 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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