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Substance Use and Misuse is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.9), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Informa Healthcare.
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ISSN 1082-6084Verify ISSN ↗1532-2491Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health (social science) | 161 / 387 | 58th | Q2 |
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 206 / 466 | 55th | Q2 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 355 / 725 | 51st | Q2 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 313 / 580 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1966–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.9.
Substance Use and Misuse is Q2 in Health (social science) (rank 161 of 387), Q2 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 206 of 466) and Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 355 of 725), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Substance Use and Misuse 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 2.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 58th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.691, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 96.
Substance Use and Misuse is published by Informa Healthcare. Its print ISSN is 1082-6084 and its online ISSN is 1532-2491.
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 Misuse has an h-index of 114 and a 2-year mean of 1.33 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #185 of 378 Scopus journals in Health (social science).
Substance Use and Misuse published 344 papers in 2025. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (63.9%), Türkiye (5.2%) and Canada (4.1%). 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. 3 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 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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