International Journal of Applied Behavioral Sciences (IJABS) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access quarterly journal (ISSN 2383-4129; E-ISSN 2423-5253) published by the Behavioral Sciences Research Center of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. The journal aims to make its articles easy to find and to cite by working with national and international indexing and abstracting services.

Accreditation

The journal is accredited as a scientific-research journal by the Iranian Medical Journals Commission of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran.

Current Indexing

IJABS is currently indexed in the following databases:

• Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC)
• Magiran
• Iran Journal

The full text of the articles is also searchable through Google Scholar.

Discoverability

• All articles are open access and freely available in full text under the CC BY 4.0 license, without registration.
• Each article is published with complete metadata (title, authors with affiliations, abstract, MeSH-based keywords, references, and dates), which helps indexing services and search engines find it.
• The journal’s metadata can be harvested through the OAI-PMH protocol.
• The journal follows the guidelines of COPE and the ICMJE, and its policies on peer review, publication ethics, open access, and fees are publicly available on this website.

Updates

This page is updated whenever the journal’s indexing status changes. For questions about the indexing of the journal, please contact the editorial office at: ijabs@sbmu.ac.ir