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Social History of Alcohol and Drugs is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.5). Published by University of Chicago Press.
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ISSN 1930-8418Verify ISSN ↗2640-7329Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 786 / 1936 | 59th | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 757 / 1434 | 47th | Q3 |
| Law | 862 / 1162 | 25th | Q3 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 661 / 725 | 8th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.5.
Social History of Alcohol and Drugs is Q2 in History (rank 786 of 1936), Q3 in Cultural Studies (rank 757 of 1434) and Q3 in Law (rank 862 of 1162), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Social History of Alcohol and Drugs is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q2, 59th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.143, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 10.
Social History of Alcohol and Drugs is published by University of Chicago Press. Its print ISSN is 1930-8418 and its online ISSN is 2640-7329.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Social History of Alcohol and Drugs has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,214 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Social History of Alcohol and Drugs published 35 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 38. 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 36 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (36.1%), United Kingdom (22.2%) and Canada (13.9%).
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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