Addiction (journal)

This article is about the scientific journal. For the concept of addiction, see Addiction.

Academic journal

AddictionDiscipline| Addiction

|

Language| English
Edited by| John Marsden
Publication details

Former name(s)

British Journal of Inebriety, British Journal of Addiction to Alcohol & Other Drugs, British Journal of Addiction

History| 1903-present
Publisher|

Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Society for the Study of Addiction

Frequency| Monthly

Open access

| Hybrid

Impact factor

| 7.256 (2021)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4 (alt) * Bluebook (alt1 * alt2)
NLM (alt) * MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4| Addiction
Indexing
CODEN (alt * alt2) * JSTOR (alt) * LCCN (alt)
MIAR * NLM (alt) * Scopus
ISSN| 0965-2140 (print)
1360-0443 (web)

LCCN| 93645978
OCLC no.| 27367194
Links

* Journal homepage
* Online access
* Online archive

Addiction is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1903 by the Society for the Study of Addiction to Alcohol and other Drugs as the British Journal of Inebriety. It was renamed British Journal of Addiction to Alcohol & Other Drugs in 1947, then renamed to British Journal of Addiction in 1980, before finally obtaining its current name in 1993.[1] It covers research relating to the abuse of alcohol, illicit drugs, and tobacco, as well as behavioural addictions.[2] The editor-in-chief is John Marsden (King's College London).

## Article types[edit]

The journal publishes research reports, reviews, commentaries, and letters to the editor relating to all aspects of addictive behaviours.

## Abstracting and indexing[edit]

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

* Biological Abstracts[3]
* BIOSIS Previews[3]
* CAB Abstracts[4]
* CINAHL[5]
* Current Contents/Clinical Medicine[3]
* Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences[3]
* EBSCO databases[6]
* Global Health[7]
* Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed[8]
* PASCAL[6]
* ProQuest databases[6]
* PsycINFO[9]
* Science Citation Index Expanded[3]
* Scopus[10]
* Social Sciences Citation Index[3]
* VINITI[7]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 6.340.[11]

## References[edit]

1. ^ "List of Issues". Addiction. Wiley. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
2. ^ "Aims & scope". Archived from the original on 2020-12-01. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
3. ^ a b c d e f "Web of Science Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Clarivate Analytics. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
4. ^ "Serials cited". CAB Abstracts. CABI. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
5. ^ "CINAHL Complete Database Coverage List". CINAHL. EBSCO Information Services. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
6. ^ a b c "Addiction". MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals. University of Barcelona. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
7. ^ a b "Overview". Addiction. Wiley. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
8. ^ "Addiction". NLM Catalog. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
9. ^ "PsycINFO Journal Coverage". American Psychological Association. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
10. ^ "Source details: Addiction". Scopus Preview. Elsevier. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
11. ^ "Addiction". 2019 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2020.

## External links[edit]

* Official website