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Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.4), WoS SSCI. Published by Elsevier Inc..
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ISSN 2949-8759Verify ISSN ↗2949-8767Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,440 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychiatric Mental Health | 9 / 47 | 81st | Q1 |
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 110 / 466 | 76th | Q1 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 175 / 580 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.4.
Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment is Q1 in Psychiatric Mental Health (rank 9 of 47), Q1 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 110 of 466) and Q2 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 175 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment 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 5.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.383, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 132.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,440 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 Substance Use and Addiction Treatment is published by Elsevier Inc. Its print ISSN is 2949-8759 and its online ISSN is 2949-8767.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 2.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #9 of 46 Scopus journals in Psychiatric Mental Health.
Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment published 185 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 268. 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 (2026), authors are most often from United States (78.4%), Canada (4.4%) and United Kingdom (3.3%). 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.
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