Journal of Behavioral Addictions

The Journal of Behavioral Addictions is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Akadémiai Kiadó (Budapest, Hungary). It publishes manuscripts on the different aspects of non-substance addictions and the addictive patterns of various behaviors. The current editor-in-chief is Zsolt Demetrovics (University of Gibraltar). It was founded in 2011 by Eötvös Loránd University, and is a gold open access journal.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:


 * Science Citation Index Expanded
 * Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition
 * Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition
 * Social Sciences Citation Index
 * Current Contents®/Social and Behavioral Sciences
 * EBSCO
 * Google Scholar
 * PsycINFO
 * PubMed Central
 * Scopus
 * MEDLINE
 * CABI

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 7.772, and is ranked 26 (out of 155) in the category of Psychiatry journals (Science Citation Index Expanded).