Where National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Funded Research Is Published: Top 50 Journals

In shortNational Institute on Drug Abuse (United States) is named as a funder in the recent research articles of 200 journals we checked, most often in Drug and Alcohol Dependence (67 of 200 recent articles). The journals below publish its funded work most often; open a journal for its indexing, review time, reviewer comments and fee waivers.

Journals that publish National Institute on Drug Abuse funded research most often

#	Journal	Articles naming it	Indexing	Impact factor*	Median review time
1	Drug and Alcohol Dependence	67 of 200	SCIE SSCI	1.04	n/a
2	Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports	62 of 199	ESCI	3.45	n/a
3	Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment	56 of 200	SSCI	2.29	n/a
4	Substance Use &amp Addiction Journal	51 of 200	SCIE SSCI	1.88	n/a
5	Addiction Science & Clinical Practice	46 of 200	SCIE SSCI	2.44	210 days
6	Harm Reduction Journal	35 of 200	SSCI	4.08	220 days
7	Health & Justice	33 of 167	ESCI	2.55	179 days
8	Addiction Neuroscience	32 of 109	ESCI	2.63	n/a
9	Substance Use & Misuse	31 of 200	SCIE SSCI	1.37	n/a
10	Psychopharmacology	28 of 200	SCIE	3.25	144 days
11	Prevention Science	27 of 200	SSCI	2.23	258 days
12	Addictive Behaviors	26 of 200	SCIE SSCI	3.87	n/a
13	Addictive Behaviors Reports	26 of 200	ESCI	2.65	n/a
14	International Journal of Drug Policy	24 of 200	SSCI	3.81	n/a
15	The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse	21 of 138	SCIE SSCI	2.91	188 days
16	Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior	20 of 200	SCIE	2.97	n/a
17	American Journal of Preventive Medicine	18 of 200	SCIE SSCI	3.27	n/a
18	Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience	18 of 200	SCIE SSCI	5.29	n/a
19	Substance Use Research and Treatment	18 of 71	ESCI	1.18	n/a
20	Addiction	17 of 200	SCIE SSCI	3.99	164 days
21	Current Addiction Reports	17 of 190	SSCI	4.26	120 days
22	Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology	16 of 200	SCIE SSCI	0.99	n/a
23	Preventive Medicine	16 of 200	SCIE	3.83	n/a
24	Tobacco Control	15 of 200	SCIE SSCI	2.86	n/a
25	Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science	14 of 200	ESCI	2.13	n/a
26	Nicotine & Tobacco Research	14 of 200	SCIE SSCI	2.99	n/a
27	American Journal on Addictions	13 of 200	SSCI	1.02	126 days
28	Journal of Drug Issues	13 of 109	SSCI	1.03	n/a
29	SSM - Mental Health	13 of 200	ESCI	2.88	n/a
30	Addiction Biology	12 of 200	SCIE	2.54	150 days
31	AIDS and Behavior	12 of 200	SSCI	2.39	180 days
32	Journal of Adolescent Health	12 of 200	SCIE SSCI	2.17	n/a
33	Journal of Psychoactive Drugs	12 of 176	SSCI	2.53	200 days
34	AJPM Focus	11 of 200	Scopus	1.65	n/a
35	Journal of Cannabis Research	11 of 200	ESCI	2.35	140 days
36	Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior	11 of 178	SCIE SSCI	1.38	265 days
37	Journal of Urban Health	11 of 200	SCIE	2.87	204 days
38	Molecular Pharmacology	11 of 170	SCIE	3.57	n/a
39	Neuron	11 of 200	SCIE	14.33	n/a
40	Pain Medicine	11 of 200	SCIE	1.74	n/a
41	Drug and Alcohol Review	10 of 200	SSCI	2.50	208 days
42	Journal of Pain	10 of 200	SCIE	1.32	n/a
43	Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging	9 of 200	SCIE	1.95	n/a
44	Biological Psychiatry	9 of 200	SCIE	1.36	n/a
45	Genes Brain & Behavior	9 of 69	SCIE	2.13	163 days
46	Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics	9 of 200	SCIE	1.01	n/a
47	Neuropharmacology	9 of 200	SCIE	4.16	n/a
48	Psychology of Addictive Behaviors	9 of 200	SSCI	1.42	n/a
49	Substance Abuse Treatment Prevention and Policy	9 of 143	SSCI	2.79	228 days
50	The Journals of Gerontology Series B	9 of 200	SCIE SSCI	3.02	n/a

"Articles naming" counts the research articles (of up to 200 from the last 24 months) whose funder list names National Institute on Drug Abuse. *Impact factor calculated from OpenAlex open data, not the official Clarivate value. Review time: median days from submission to acceptance, from the dates publishers deposit in Crossref.

Funders named alongside National Institute on Drug Abuse

Other funders that appear in the same journals. Their pages show where their funded research is published.

National Institutes of Health National Institute of Mental Health National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development National Natural Science Foundation of China Canadian Institutes of Health Research National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences National Cancer Institute National Institute on Aging Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities National Health and Medical Research Council National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Centers for Disease Control and Prevention U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

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Frequently asked questions

Which journals publish the most National Institute on Drug Abuse funded research?

In the recent research articles we checked, the journals that name National Institute on Drug Abuse as a funder most often are Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports, Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment, Substance Use &amp Addiction Journal, Addiction Science & Clinical Practice. In all, 200 journals name it.

Does publishing in these journals help my National Institute on Drug Abuse grant?

These journals already publish work supported by National Institute on Drug Abuse, so editors and reviewers know this kind of research. Whether a journal suits your paper still depends on its scope, indexing and review time, shown for each journal in the table.

Does National Institute on Drug Abuse pay the article processing charge (APC)?

Many funders pay or reimburse open access fees under their open access policy, but the rules differ by funder and by grant. Check National Institute on Drug Abuse's open access policy and your grant terms; for country-based waivers, use the free APC waiver checker.

Where does this data come from?

From the funder information publishers deposit with each article in Crossref. For each journal, ScholarsColab looked at up to 200 research articles from the last 24 months and counted the funders they name. Not every publisher deposits funders, so a journal can be missing.

Source, method and date. Source: the funder information publishers deposit with each article in Crossref. Method: for each journal, ScholarsColab looked at up to 200 research articles from the last 24 months and counted the funders they name; spelling variants of a funder are combined. Updated: 29 October 2026. ScholarsColab is not affiliated with National Institute on Drug Abuse or these journals.