The aim of The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry is to increase the worldwide communication of knowledge in clinical and basic research on biological psychiatry. Its target audience is thus clinical psychiatrists, educators, scientists and students interested in biological psychiatry. The composition of
The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry , with its diverse categories that allow communication of a great variety of information, ensures that it is of interest to a wide range of readers.
The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry is a major clinically oriented journal on biological psychiatry. The opportunity to educate (through critical review papers, treatment guidelines and consensus reports), publish original work and observations (original papers and brief reports) and to express personal opinions (Letters to the Editor) makes The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry an extremely important medium in the field of biological psychiatry all over the world.
Peer Review Policy: All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous peer review.
Journal metrics
Usage
221K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
3.0 (2023) Impact Factor
Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
3.3 (2023) 5 year IF
7.0 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.971 (2023) SNIP
1.153 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
5 days avg. from submission to first
decision
53 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
29 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
25% acceptance rate
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Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year
and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated
annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of
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Usage:
the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users
of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the
nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles published in the
journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources
Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation
Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal
within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
Chief Editor Prof. Dr. Dan Rujescu - Clinic and Polyclinic for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany E-mail: [email protected]
Assistant Chief Editor Prof. Dr. Rainer Rupprecht - Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany E-mail: [email protected]
Past Chief Editor Prof. Siegfried Kasper - Center for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria E-mail: [email protected]
Field Editors Molecular Psychiatry Dan Rujescu - Germany
Neuroimaging Stephen Lawrie - United Kingdom
Psychopharmacology and Brain Stimulation Alessandro Serretti - Italy
Clinical Research Dominika Dudek - Poland Janusz Rybakowski - Poland
Preclinical Studies Maurizio Popoli - Italy
Editorial Board Carlo Altamura - Italy Ole Andreassen - Norway Michael Bauer - Germany Michael Berk - Australia Geraldo Busatto Filho - Brazil David Castle - Australia Eva Ceskova - Czech Republic Andrea de Bartolomeis - Italy Katharina Domschke - Germany Yogesh Dwivedi - United States Elias Eriksson - Sweden Peter Falkai - Germany Sophia Frangou - United States Marlene Freeman - USA Tomoyuki Furuyashiki - Japan Ina Giegling - Germany Birte Glenthoj - Denmark Michel Hamon - France Gregor Hasler - Switzerland Martin Hatzinger - Switzerland Ladislav Hosak - Czech Republic Alessandro Ieraci - Italy Hong Jin Jeon - South Korea Rene Kahn - USA Shitij Kapur - United Kingdom Oguz Karamustafalioglu - Turkey Tomas Kasparek - Czech Republic James L. Kennedy - Canada Sidney Kennedy - Canada Maria Kundakovic - USA Rupert Lanzenberger - Austria Yechiel Levkovitz - Israel Jeffrey A. Lieberman - USA Pierre-Michel Llorca - France J. John Mann - United States Donatella Marazziti - Italy Daniel Martins-de-Souza - Brazil Susan L. McElroy - USA Patrick McGorry - Australia Inga Neumann - Germany Tarek Okasha - Egypt Christos Pantelis - Australia Carmine Pariante - United Kingdom Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath - India M. S. Reddy - India Erich Seifritz - Switzerland Alessandro Serretti - Italy Leo Sher - USA Dan J Stein - South Africa Werner Strik - Switzerland Daniela Tardito - Italy Jari Tiihonen - Finland Gustavo Turecki - Canada Victoria Valdez - Ecuador Eduard Vieta - Spain Adam Wichniak - Poland Shigeto Yamawaki - Japan Lakshmi N. Yatham - Canada Allan Young - United Kingdom Xin Yu - China Carlos Zarate - USA Iannis M. Zervas - Greece Joseph Zohar - Israel
Advisory Committee Frederick Goodwin - United States Florian Holsboer - Germany Mario Maj - Italy Julian Mendlewicz - Belgium Hans-Jürgen Möller - Germany Stuart Montgomery - United Kingdom Ahmed Okasha - Egypt Giorgio Racagni - Italy Barbara J. Sahakian - United Kingdom Alan Schatzberg - United States Constantin Soldatos - Greece Masatoshi Takeda - Japan Michael Trimble - United Kingdom
Founding Editors Hans-Jürgen Möller - Germany Carlos Roberto Hojaij - Australia Joseph Zohar - Israel
The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry is included in the following abstracting and indexing services:
Allied and Complementary Medicine Literature (Amed); Biological Abstracts; Biotechnology Abstracts; Chemical Abstracts; CML RHEUMATOLOGY; Current Contents/Clinical Medicine; Current Contents/Life Sciences; Elsevier BIOBASE/Current Awareness of Biological Sciences; Energy Research Abstracts; EMBASE/Excerpta Medica; Index Medicus/MEDLINE; Medical Documentation Service; PEDro; Periodicals Scanned and Abstracted. Life Sciences Collection; PESTDOC; PsycINFO; Reference Update; Research Alert; Review of Medical and Veterinary Entomology; Science Citation Index; SciSearch.
Open access
The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
Why choose open access?
Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
If you choose to publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis.
Founded in 1974 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) is a non-profit, international organization composed of over 60 national societies of biological psychiatry, representing over 4,500 professionals. As a world authority on biological psychiatry, WFSBP is also highly committed to pioneering and promoting the highest levels of education and dissemination within the field. Click here to visit the society's homepage.
Print ISSN:
1562-2975
Online ISSN:
1814-1412
8 issues per year
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