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NAD Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.3), WoS SSCI, DOAJ. Published by SAGE Publications Inc..
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ISSN 1455-0725Verify ISSN ↗1458-6126Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health (social science) | 90 / 387 | 76th | Q1 |
| Health Policy | 100 / 330 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present (also 1989–1992), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.3.
NAD Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs is Q1 in Health (social science) (rank 90 of 387) and Q2 in Health Policy (rank 100 of 330), by CiteScore 2025.
NAD Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 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 4.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.496, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 26.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
NAD Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs is published by SAGE Publications Inc. Its print ISSN is 1455-0725 and its online ISSN is 1458-6126.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
NAD Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs has an h-index of 33 and a 2-year mean of 1.54 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #155 of 378 Scopus journals in Health (social science).
NAD Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs published 41 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 54. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from Finland (27.5%), Norway (21.1%) and Sweden (19.9%).
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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