Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

Discipline	Psychology
Language	English
Edited by	Katie Witkiewitz
Publication details
History	1987-present
Publisher	American Psychological Association (United States)
Frequency	8/year
Impact factor	3.288 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Psychol. Addict. Behav.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	0893-164X (print) 1939-1501 (web)
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Psychology of Addictive Behaviors is a peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Psychological Association that publishes original articles related to the psychological aspects of addictive behaviors 8 times a year.^[1] The current editor-in-chief is Katie Witkiewitz (University of New Mexico).

The journal has implemented the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines. ^[2] The TOP Guidelines provide structure to research planning and reporting and aim to make research more transparent, accessible, and reproducible. ^[3]

The journal includes articles on the following topics:

• alcohol and alcoholism
• drug use and abuse
• eating disorders
• smoking and nicotine addiction, and
• other excessive behaviors (e.g., gambling, sexual addiction)

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by MEDLINE/PubMed and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 3.288.^[4]