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Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.8), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell.
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ISSN 0363-0234Verify ISSN ↗1943-278XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Cost to publish: About US$3,700 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 185 / 725 | 74th | Q2 |
| Clinical Psychology | 82 / 314 | 74th | Q2 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 194 / 580 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1971–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.8.
Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior is Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 185 of 725), Q2 in Clinical Psychology (rank 82 of 314) and Q2 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 194 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 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 4.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.296, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 118.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,700 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.
Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior is published by Wiley-Blackwell. Its print ISSN is 0363-0234 and its online ISSN is 1943-278X.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior has an h-index of 147 and a 2-year mean of 2.89 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #142 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior published 90 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 146. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (69.6%), China (5.8%) and Australia (4.6%). 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 (0.9 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.
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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