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Drugs, Habits and Social Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.4), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Publishing.
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ISSN 2752-6739Verify ISSN ↗2752-6747Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health (social science) | 198 / 387 | 48th | Q3 |
| Clinical Psychology | 171 / 314 | 45th | Q3 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 406 / 725 | 44th | Q3 |
| Health Policy | 191 / 330 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 351 / 580 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.4.
Drugs, Habits and Social Policy is Q3 in Health (social science) (rank 198 of 387), Q3 in Clinical Psychology (rank 171 of 314) and Q3 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 406 of 725), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Drugs, Habits and Social Policy is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 2.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 48th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.348, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 25.
Drugs, Habits and Social Policy is published by Emerald Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2752-6739 and its online ISSN is 2752-6747.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Drugs, Habits and Social Policy has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.76 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #259 of 378 Scopus journals in Health (social science).
Drugs, Habits and Social Policy published 16 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 32. 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 94 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (22.1%), United States (14.4%) and New Zealand (6.4%).
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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