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Behavioral Medicine

Routledge · United States · Est. 1982

ISSN1940-4026

SJR Q2✓ WOS SCIE✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE · 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

0.743

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.925

Total Worksi

993

Total Citationsi

32,453

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.90

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Behavioral Sciences; Psychiatry; Applied Psychology; Psychiatry and Mental Health.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1982

FrequencyQuarterly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications993

Publisher OrgTaylor & Francis

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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?

Routledge

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1940-4026

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, PubMed

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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

2.3k

2019

1.1k

2020

312

2021

500

2022

126

2023

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.

Applied PsychologyQ2

Psychiatry and Mental HealthQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Behavioral SciencesPsychiatry

Scopus Categories

Applied PsychologyPsychiatry and Mental Health

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Behavioral Health and InterventionsObesity, Physical Activity, DietEating Disorders and BehaviorsHealth disparities and outcomesHealth, psychology, and well-beingStress Responses and CortisolCardiac Health and Mental HealthHIV/AIDS Research and InterventionsChild and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentHeart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control

Frequently asked questions about Behavioral Medicine

Is Behavioral Medicine a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Behavioral Medicine: 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 Behavioral Medicine?

Behavioral Medicine 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 0.90.

Is Behavioral Medicine indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Behavioral Medicine is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Behavioral Medicine?