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Substance Use and Addiction Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.4), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Inc..
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ISSN 2976-7342Verify ISSN ↗2976-7350Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 109 / 466 | 76th | Q1 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 172 / 580 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.4.
Substance Use and Addiction Journal is Q1 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 109 of 466) and Q2 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 172 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Substance Use and Addiction Journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and 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 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.089, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 66.
Substance Use and Addiction Journal is published by SAGE Publications Inc. Its print ISSN is 2976-7342 and its online ISSN is 2976-7350.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Substance Use and Addiction Journal has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 1.91 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #172 of 451 Scopus journals in Medicine (miscellaneous).
Substance Use and Addiction Journal published 117 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 124. 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 (2026), authors are most often from United States (71.9%), Canada (6.9%) and Australia (4.8%). 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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