Journal profile · Psychology-Clinical Psychology
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
ISSN 1940-0640 · BioMed Central · ENGLAND · Founded 2012
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice: CAS Zone 2 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.58; fully open access; APC about USD 2,890; median 210 days to acceptance (98 articles, last 24 months); 112 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice is published by BioMed Central and is in Zone 2 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes, Opioid Use Disorder Treatment and HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk, together about 54.4% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice provides a forum for clinically relevant research and perspectives focused on the treatment and quality of care for people with unhealthy substance use and addictive behaviors. Topics of interest include the array of clinical prevention and treatment practices (from health messages, to identification and early intervention, to more extensive interventions including counseling, pharmacotherapy, and other management strategies); and the identification and management of medical, psychiatric, social, and other health consequences of substance use. Addiction Science & Clinical Practice is particularly interested in articles that address how to improve the quality of care and health services for people with unhealthy substance use and related conditions. Although the journal welcomes submissions that address these conditions in addiction specialty treatment settings, the journal is particularly interested in articles that expand the base of treatment to address unhealthy substance use outside these settings. Such articles may include experiences with novel models of care and outcomes, outcomes of research-practice collaborations, implementation science, community-based participatory research, and other innovative studies focused on increasing access to treatment and services for unhealthy substance use. The journal also actively welcomes the submission of studies reporting null or negative findings given their importance to reproducibility and the development of evidence-based treatment interventions. Addiction Science & Clinical Practice is generally not an outlet for basic science research. Addiction Science & Clinical Practice is intended for an international audience of clinicians and other persons who care for people with unhealthy substance use in general, specialty, and community-based settings. It also seeks to inform public health professionals and researchers who are engaged in developing, assessing, and improving substance use treatment. The Journal aims to improve the lives of people who use substances by informing those entrusted with their care.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Psychology-Clinical Psychology
Editor-in-chief Alexander Y. WalleyPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 45, Spain 2, Canada 2, Brazil 2, United Kingdom 1 (56 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Substance Abuse Treatment and OutcomesMedicine26.8%
- Opioid Use Disorder TreatmentMedicine17.3%
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual RiskMedicine10.2%
- Health Policy Implementation ScienceHealth Professions6.9%
- Homelessness and Social IssuesHealth Professions3.5%
- Alcohol Consumption and Health EffectsMedicine3.2%
- Smoking Behavior and CessationMedicine3.2%
- Alcoholism and Thiamine DeficiencyMedicine2.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Substance Abuse | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Substance Abuse | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Substance Abuse | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIESSCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
MEDLINEPsycINFOCASCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: Google Scholar, ProQuest, Dimensions, CNKI, Baidu, Naver, OCLC, Portico, CLOCKSS, Semantic Scholar
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 2.58LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.6Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.13LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.9LetPub ·
- h-index
- 54OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 363OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.42OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 7.7%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 104LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 2,025Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 886,200Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,118 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 79 | 79 | 17 |
| 2025 | 112 | 112 | 204 |
| 2024 | 99 | 99 | 482 |
| 2023 | 74 | 74 | 817 |
| 2022 | 73 | 73 | 1,052 |
| 2021 | 73 | 73 | 1,523 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
210 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 165 days – 268 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 15 days (98 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 223 days
- Sample
- 98 articles with submission and acceptance dates (219 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 28 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 12 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 28 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | EUR 2,490 / USD 2,890 / GBP 2,190 | Yes | CC BY, CC0 | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,890 / EUR 2,490 / GBP 2,190 | — | — | |
| LetPub | EUR 2,290 / USD 2,690 / GBP 1,990 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | GBP 2,190 / USD 2,890 / EUR 2,490 | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare1 items from the author guidelines
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
Article types accepted11
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- systematic reviewBrief Report Case report Case study Commentary Matters Arising Meeting report Methodology Research article Review Study protocol Systematic ReviewLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- Authorship
Manuscripts must be submitted by an author, not a third party. Model summary
Please note that a manuscript can only be submitted by an author of the manuscript and may not be submitted by a third party.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Formatting the 'Availability of data and materials' section of your manuscript
CC0 data policy; CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication waiver applies to all published data. Model summary
The following format for the 'Availability of data and materials section of your manuscript should be used:
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Licensing and copyright
Open access under CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence). Model summary
Creative Commons licences Open access articles in Springer Nature journals are published under Creative Commons licences. These provide an industry-standard framework to support easy re-use of open access material. Under Creative Commons licences, authors retain copyright of their articles. Addiction Science & Clinical Practice articles are published open access under a CC BY (Creative Commons Att…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Benefits of open access
Publishing open access (OA) offers a number of benefits, including greater reach and readership for your work: Cited more 1.6x more citations of OA articles than non-OA articles across all subjects Downloaded more 4x more downloads of OA articles than non-OA articles Greater impact 2.5x more Altmetric attention. OA articles attracted 1.9x more news mentions and 1.2x more policy mentions Open acces…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Authors may suggest peer reviewers with institutional email addresses or identifiers such as ORCID/Scopus ID. Model summary
Peer review is the process used to evaluate the quality of a manuscript before publication. Independent researchers in the relevant field assess submitted manuscripts to check their validity and robustness. Their feedback guides editors in making publication decisions. Typically, two or more experts evaluate each manuscript based on three main criteria: scientific robustness: is the research metho…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- Founded
- 2012
- ISSN
- 1940-0640
- Society / sponsor
- Grayken Center for Addiction at Boston Medical Center
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
What CAS zone is Addiction Science & Clinical Practice in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Addiction Science & Clinical Practice is in Zone 2 of Medicine, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Substance Abuse. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Addiction Science & Clinical Practice?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.58; CiteScore 4, h-index 54.
How long does peer review take at Addiction Science & Clinical Practice?
Based on the dates recorded on 98 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 210 days (interquartile range 165–268 days); authors report an average review time of about 28 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Where are the editorial board members of Addiction Science & Clinical Practice based?
Of the 56 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (45), Spain (2) and Canada (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Addiction Science & Clinical Practice?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Addiction Science & Clinical Practice is indexed in SCIE, SSCI, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists MEDLINE, PsycINFO, CAS and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Addiction Science & Clinical Practice open access, and what is the APC?
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,890.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .