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Psychology of Addictive Behaviors is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.9), WoS SSCI. Published by Educational Publishing Foundation.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0893-164XVerify ISSN ↗1939-1501Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Educational Publishing Foundation
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Psychology | 38 / 314 | 88th | Q1 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 95 / 580 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 78 / 466 | 83rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.9.
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors is Q1 in Clinical Psychology (rank 38 of 314), Q1 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 95 of 580) and Q1 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 78 of 466), by CiteScore 2025.
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors 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 6.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.026, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 132.
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors is published by Educational Publishing Foundation. Its print ISSN is 0893-164X and its online ISSN is 1939-1501.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors has an h-index of 160 and a 2-year mean of 1.39 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #136 of 308 Scopus journals in Clinical Psychology.
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors published 112 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 179. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (75.2%), Canada (5.9%) and Australia (4.4%). 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. 4 retracted papers are recorded (1.1 per 1,000 papers). 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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