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Addictive Behaviors is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.7), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0306-4603Verify ISSN ↗1873-6327Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,450 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Psychology | 26 / 314 | 91st | Q1 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 68 / 580 | 88th | Q1 |
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 61 / 466 | 87th | Q1 |
| Toxicology | 29 / 131 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1975–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.7.
Addictive Behaviors is Q1 in Clinical Psychology (rank 26 of 314), Q1 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 68 of 580) and Q1 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 61 of 466), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Addictive Behaviors 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 7.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.547, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 166.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,450 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.
Addictive Behaviors is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0306-4603 and its online ISSN is 1873-6327.
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.
Addictive Behaviors has an h-index of 210 and a 2-year mean of 3.74 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #22 of 308 Scopus journals in Clinical Psychology.
Addictive Behaviors published 268 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 447. 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 (44%), China (14.5%) and Canada (8.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 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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