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Journal of Behavioral Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.5), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer New York.
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ISSN 0160-7715Verify ISSN ↗1573-3521Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer New York
Cost to publish: About US$4,790 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychology (all) | 50 / 220 | 77th | Q1 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 166 / 580 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1978–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.5.
Journal of Behavioral Medicine is Q1 in Psychology (all) (rank 50 of 220) and Q2 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 166 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Behavioral Medicine is indexed in the 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 5.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.882, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 118.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,790 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 Medicine is published by Springer New York. Its print ISSN is 0160-7715 and its online ISSN is 1573-3521.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Behavioral Medicine has an h-index of 171 and a 2-year mean of 2.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #42 of 217 Scopus journals in Psychology (all).
Journal of Behavioral Medicine published 77 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 133. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (78.7%), Netherlands (3%) and China (3%). 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. 3 retracted papers are recorded (1.1 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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