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Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.4), WoS SCIE/SSCI. Published by Alcohol Research Documentation Inc..
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ISSN 1937-1888Verify ISSN ↗1938-4114Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Alcohol Research Documentation Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health (social science) | 137 / 387 | 64th | Q2 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 278 / 580 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Toxicology | 91 / 131 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.4.
Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs is Q2 in Health (social science) (rank 137 of 387), Q2 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 278 of 580) and Q3 in Toxicology (rank 91 of 131), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 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 3.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.839, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 145.
Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs is published by Alcohol Research Documentation Inc. Its print ISSN is 1937-1888 and its online ISSN is 1938-4114.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs has an h-index of 106 and a 2-year mean of 1.36 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #180 of 378 Scopus journals in Health (social science).
Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs published 121 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 167. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (72.8%), Canada (6.3%) and United Kingdom (3.2%). 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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