Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment is an open access journal, meaning all articles are available for anyone to download for free without restriction. Open access journals are renowned for having high levels of article visibility compared to traditional subscription journals.

One good example of how open access journals can offer high visibility is 'Hepatitis Infection in the Treatment of Opioid Dependence and Abuse', published in Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment. This article has been viewed more than 4,666 times since its publication in 2008.

This is the highest rate of viewing of all articles in Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment and shows how publishing open access can increase article visibility and how publishing in Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment can offer higher levels of visibility than restricted access alternatives.

Authors publishing in Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment will benefit from the extensive indexing including many open access exclusive databases and directories that do not index subscription journals.

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