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African Journal of Drug and Alcohol Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1). Published by African Center for Research and Information on Substance Abuse.
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ISSN 1531-4065Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: African Center for Research and Information on Substance Abuse
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 573 / 580 | 1st | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
African Journal of Drug and Alcohol Studies is Q4 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 573 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
African Journal of Drug and Alcohol Studies is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4, 1st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.113, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 14.
African Journal of Drug and Alcohol Studies is published by African Center for Research and Information on Substance Abuse. Its ISSN is 1531-4065.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
African Journal of Drug and Alcohol Studies has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0.48 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #472 of 570 Scopus journals in Psychiatry and Mental Health.
African Journal of Drug and Alcohol Studies published 14 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 39 research articles (2022–2025), authors are most often from Nigeria (40%), South Africa (19.9%) and United States (10.9%).
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.
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