General Psychiatry

General Psychiatry
DisciplinePsychiatry
LanguageEnglish
Edited byYifeng Xu ( Chinese name: 徐一峰); Jinghong Chen (Chinese name: 陈京红)
Publication details
Former name(s)
Shanghai Archives of Psychiatry (Chinese name: 上海精神医学)
History1959–present
Publisher
FrequencyBimonthly
Yes
LicenseCreative Commons Attribution License
5.3 (2023)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Gen. Psychiatry
Indexing
ISSN2096-5923 (print)
2517-729X (web)
OCLC no.1340603097
Links

General Psychiatry is a bimonthly peer-reviewed open-access medical journal covering mental health topics relevant to psychiatrists and mental health professionals.[1][2]

Overview and history

The journal was established by Yifeng Xu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine) and co-edited by the executive editor-in-chief Jinghong Chen (Shanghai Mental Health Center).[3] As the first psychiatric journal in China, it was established in 1959 as the Shanghai Archives of Psychiatry (Chinese name: 上海精神医学).[4][5] It was initially published at irregular intervals, which then became a quarterly publication in 1989 and a bimonthly one in 2003. In 2012, it transitioned to an all-English publication.[4] In August 2018, it changed its name to General Psychiatry published by the BMJ Publishing Group.[6][7] The journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics and is affiliated with the Shanghai Mental Health Center (Chinese name: 上海精神卫生中心).[8]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index,[9] Scopus, and the Directory of Open Access Journals.[10] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 5.3—ranking it in 28th place out of 276 journals in the category "Psychiatry".[11]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Homepage". General Psychiatry. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  2. ^ "上海市精神卫生中心". www.smhc.org.cn. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  3. ^ "陈京红 - 研究员/教授 - 上海市重性精神病重点实验室". 上海市重性精神病重点实验室. Retrieved 2024-07-22.
  4. ^ a b "About Us - Shanghai Carchives of Psychiatry". shanghaiarchivesofpsychiatry.org. 2024-02-11. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  5. ^ Wu, Chunyan; Wang, Liwei (2010-02-01). "Psychiatric Journals in China". American Journal of Psychiatry. 167 (2): 133. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2009.167.2.133. PMID 26650323. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  6. ^ Xu, Yifeng (2018-09-14). "New journey, new mission: bolstering international communication about mental health". General Psychiatry. 31 (1): e100002. doi:10.1136/gpsych-2018-100002. PMC 6211272. PMID 30582118.
  7. ^ "BMJ to publish international psychiatry journal". InPublishing. 2018-09-19. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  8. ^ "About". General Psychiatry. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  9. ^ "Web of Science Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Clarivate. Retrieved 2024-07-27.
  10. ^ "General Psychiatry – DOAJ". doaj.org. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  11. ^ "General Psychiatry". 2023 Journal Citation Reports (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2024 – via Web of Science.