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Addiction
Journal info (provided by editor)
- Issues per year
- 12
- Articles published last year
- 173
- Manuscripts received last year
- 903
- % accepted last year
- 17%
- % immediately rejected last year
- n/a
- Open access status
- optional
- Manuscript handling fee?
- n/a
- Kind of complaint procedure
- n/a
- Two-year impact factor
- 4.89
- Five-year impact factor
- 5.47
Aims and Scope
Addiction publishes peer-reviewed research reports on pharmacological and behavioural addictions, bringing together research conducted within many different disciplines.
Its goal is to serve international and interdisciplinary scientific and clinical communication, to strengthen links between science and policy, and to stimulate and enhance the quality of debate. We seek submissions that are not only technically competent but are also original and contain information or ideas of fresh interest to our international readership. We seek to serve the developing as well as the developed world.
Addiction’s scope spans clinical, epidemiological, human experimental, policy, and historical research relating to any activity that has addictive potential. In addition to original research,
SciRev ratings (provided by authors) (based on 4 reviews)
| Duration of manuscript handling phases | ||
|---|---|---|
| Duration first review round | 2.6 mnths | compare → |
| Total handling time accepted manuscripts | 3.3 mnths | compare → |
| Decision time immediate rejection | 30 days | compare → |
| Characteristics of peer review process | ||
| Average number of review reports | 2.3 | compare → |
| Average number of review rounds | 1.7 | compare → |
| Quality of review reports | 3.7 | compare → |
| Difficulty of reviewer comments | 3.5 | compare → |
| Overall rating manuscript handling | 3.0 (range 0-5) | compare → |