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American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.3), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor & Francis Group LLC Philadelphia.
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ISSN 0095-2990Verify ISSN ↗1097-9891Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group LLC Philadelphia
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Psychology | 94 / 314 | 70th | Q2 |
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 143 / 466 | 69th | Q2 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 218 / 580 | 62nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1984–present (also 1974–1982), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.3.
American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse is Q2 in Clinical Psychology (rank 94 of 314), Q2 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 143 of 466) and Q2 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 218 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse 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 4.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.970, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 88.
American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse is published by Taylor & Francis Group LLC Philadelphia. Its print ISSN is 0095-2990 and its online ISSN is 1097-9891.
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.
American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse has an h-index of 116 and a 2-year mean of 2.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #44 of 308 Scopus journals in Clinical Psychology.
American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse published 80 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 93. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (65.2%), China (6.2%) and Canada (5.6%). 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.
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