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Journal of Drug Education is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Inc..
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ISSN 0047-2379Verify ISSN ↗1541-4159Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,650 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 316 / 466 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Health (social science) | 292 / 387 | 24th | Q4 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 563 / 725 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 478 / 580 | 17th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present (also 1972–2018), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.
Journal of Drug Education is Q3 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 316 of 466), Q4 in Health (social science) (rank 292 of 387) and Q4 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 563 of 725), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Drug Education 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 1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 32nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.177, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 45.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,650 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 Drug Education is published by SAGE Publications Inc. Its print ISSN is 0047-2379 and its online ISSN is 1541-4159.
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.
Journal of Drug Education has an h-index of 62 and a 2-year mean of 0.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #304 of 451 Scopus journals in Medicine (miscellaneous).
Journal of Drug Education published 7 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 9. 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 44 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (86.4%), Canada (5.7%) and Germany (2.3%). 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. 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.
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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