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Substance Abuse: Treatment, Prevention, and Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.4), WoS SSCI, DOAJ. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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ISSN 1747-597XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Policy | 67 / 330 | 79th | Q1 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 170 / 580 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.4.
Substance Abuse: Treatment, Prevention, and Policy is Q1 in Health Policy (rank 67 of 330) and Q2 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 170 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Substance Abuse: Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 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 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.009, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 63.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,090 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.
Substance Abuse: Treatment, Prevention, and Policy is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its ISSN is 1747-597X.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Substance Abuse: Treatment, Prevention, and Policy has an h-index of 80 and a 2-year mean of 2.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #65 of 327 Scopus journals in Health Policy.
Substance Abuse: Treatment, Prevention, and Policy published 56 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 91. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (32.1%), Canada (14.6%) and United Kingdom (5%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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