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Journal of Drug and Alcohol Research is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.2). Published by Ashdin Publishing.
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ISSN 2090-8334Verify ISSN ↗2090-8342Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Ashdin Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Psychology | 236 / 314 | 25th | Q3 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 456 / 580 | 21st | 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 2015–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.2.
Journal of Drug and Alcohol Research is Q3 in Clinical Psychology (rank 236 of 314) and Q4 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 456 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Drug and Alcohol Research 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 1.2, quartile Q3, 25th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.144, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 13.
Journal of Drug and Alcohol Research is published by Ashdin Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2090-8334 and its online ISSN is 2090-8342.
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.
Journal of Drug and Alcohol Research has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #296 of 308 Scopus journals in Clinical Psychology.
Journal of Drug and Alcohol Research published 2 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 39. 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 18 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Ukraine (100%). 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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