About the Journal

Focus and Scope

SMAD, Revista Eletrônica Saúde Mental Álcool e Drogas, is an open-access, peer-reviewed electronic journal that receives research manuscripts addressing all aspects of mental health, use of alcohol, tobacco, and other psychoactive drugs under various approaches (psychosocial and neuroscience). Being an open-access journal means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.

Contributions by researchers from different knowledge areas whose research object refers to the contents presented are accepted.

Submission Languages
Portuguese, English, or Spanish

Mission

To share experiences and knowledge produced by employees and researchers in the area of mental health, alcohol, and drugs.

Peer evaluation process:
Peer review.

Frequency
Rolling pass.

Open Access Policy
This Journal offers immediate free access to its content, following the principle that making scientific knowledge freely available to the public provides greater global democratization of knowledge.

Information Services

  • Índice de Revistas Latinoamericanas en Ciências
  • Periódica
  • Latindex
  • LILACS
  • PePSIC
  • CAB Abstract
  • Google Scholar
  • CUIDEN
  • DOAJ

Qualis CAPES Classification
Psychology (B1), Nursing (B1), Collective Health (B1).

Journal History
Publication: since January 2005
Publication languages
2005-2011 (Portuguese or English or Spanish)
2012-today (Portuguese and English or Spanish and English)

File Storage Policy
SMAD uses the LOCKSS system to create a file system distributed across the participating libraries and allows them to create permanent journal files for preservation and
restoration.

ISSN Online: 1806-6976