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Journal of Behavioral Addictions is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.9), WoS SCIE/SSCI, DOAJ. Published by Akademiai Kiado.
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ISSN 2062-5871Verify ISSN ↗2063-5303Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Akademiai Kiado
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Psychology | 14 / 314 | 95th | Q1 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 38 / 580 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 43 / 466 | 90th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.9.
Journal of Behavioral Addictions is Q1 in Clinical Psychology (rank 14 of 314), Q1 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 38 of 580) and Q1 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 43 of 466), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Behavioral Addictions 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 9.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.051, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 95.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$916 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.
Journal of Behavioral Addictions is published by Akademiai Kiado. Its print ISSN is 2062-5871 and its online ISSN is 2063-5303.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Behavioral Addictions has an h-index of 118 and a 2-year mean of 6.79 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #9 of 308 Scopus journals in Clinical Psychology.
Journal of Behavioral Addictions published 115 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 143. 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 (2026), authors are most often from United States (9.7%), China (9.3%) and Germany (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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