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Addiction Science and Clinical Practice is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4), WoS SCIE/SSCI, DOAJ. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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ISSN 1940-0632Verify ISSN ↗1940-0640Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Psychology | 106 / 314 | 66th | Q2 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 239 / 580 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.
Addiction Science and Clinical Practice is Q2 in Clinical Psychology (rank 106 of 314) and Q2 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 239 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Addiction Science and Clinical Practice 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 4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.127, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 54.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,890 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 Science and Clinical Practice is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1940-0632 and its online ISSN is 1940-0640.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Addiction Science and Clinical Practice has an h-index of 54 and a 2-year mean of 2.39 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #62 of 308 Scopus journals in Clinical Psychology.
Addiction Science and Clinical Practice published 112 papers in 2025. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (58.9%), Canada (6.1%) and Australia (3.8%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. 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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