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Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy

Informa Healthcare · United Kingdom · Est. 1994

ISSN1465-3370

SJR Q2✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SSCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.665

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.933

Total Worksi

1,885

Total Citationsi

25,772

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.75

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Substance Abuse; Health (social science); Medicine (miscellaneous).

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1994

FrequencyQuarterly, 2000-

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,885

Publisher OrgTaylor & Francis

Visit Journal Website

Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Informa Healthcare

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1465-3370

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

688

2019

953

2020

979

2021

532

2022

354

2023

262

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Health (social science)Q2

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Substance Abuse

Scopus Categories

Medicine (miscellaneous)Health (social science)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Substance Abuse Treatment and OutcomesHomelessness and Social IssuesHIV, Drug Use, Sexual RiskOpioid Use Disorder TreatmentCannabis and Cannabinoid ResearchCommunity Health and DevelopmentHealth Policy Implementation ScienceMental Health and Patient InvolvementAlcohol Consumption and Health EffectsPrenatal Substance Exposure Effects

Frequently asked questions about Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy

Is Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy?

Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 1.75.

Is Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy?