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Journal of Psychedelic Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Akademiai Kiado.
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ISSN 2559-9283Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Akademiai Kiado
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | 57 / 536 | 89th | Q1 |
| Health (social science) | 127 / 387 | 67th | Q2 |
| Clinical Psychology | 119 / 314 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Social Psychology | 133 / 315 | 57th | Q2 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 266 / 580 | 54th | Q2 |
| Pharmacology (medical) | 150 / 278 | 46th | Q3 |
| Biological Psychiatry | 35 / 54 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.5.
Journal of Psychedelic Studies is Q1 in Anthropology (rank 57 of 536), Q2 in Health (social science) (rank 127 of 387) and Q2 in Clinical Psychology (rank 119 of 314), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 7 subject areas in all.
Journal of Psychedelic Studies 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.646, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 19.
Journal of Psychedelic Studies is published by Akademiai Kiado. Its ISSN is 2559-9283.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Psychedelic Studies has an h-index of 28 and a 2-year mean of 3.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #15 of 497 Scopus journals in Anthropology.
Journal of Psychedelic Studies published 46 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 47. 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 91 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (36.1%), United Kingdom (12.2%) and Canada (9.9%).
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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