About this journal

Aims and scope

Internationally recognized, Psychiatry has responded to rapid research advances in psychiatry, psychology, neuroscience, trauma, and psychopathology. Increasingly, studies in these areas are being placed in the context of human development across the lifespan, and the multiple systems that influence individual functioning. This journal provides broadly applicable and effective strategies for dealing with the major unsolved problems in the field.

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Journal metrics

Usage

  • 56K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 2.7 (2023) Impact Factor
  • Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
  • 2.5 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 2.7 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • 0.658 (2023) SNIP
  • 0.605 (2023) SJR

Speed/acceptance

  • 11 days avg. from submission to first decision
  • 44 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
  • 37 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
  • 24% acceptance rate

Editorial board

Editor:
Robert Ursano, MD, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD, USA

Managing Editor:
Mary Lee Dichtel, Washington School of Psychiatry, Washington, DC, USA

Associate Editors:
Robert N. Emde, MD, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA
Harry C. Holloway, MD, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD, USA (Book Reviews)
Sheppard G. Kellam, MD, Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
Stephen J. Suomi, PhD, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Rockville, MD, USA
Marianne Z. Wamboldt, MD, National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, Denver, CO, USA

Editorial Advisory Board

Jon G. Allen, PhD, Baylor College, Houston, TX, USA

Richard Almond, MD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Paul S. Appelbaum, MD, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

Bogdan de Barbaro, MD, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

Lorna Smith Benjamin, PhD, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Jay Belsky, MD, UC Davis, Davis, CA, USA

David M. Benedek, MD, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD, USA

Linda A. Bennett, PhD, Memphis University, Memphis, TN, USA

Dan G. Blazer, MD, PhD, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

Peter G. Bourne, MD, Washington, DC, USA

C. Hendricks Brown, PhD, Chicago, IL, USA

Rosalind D. Cartwright, PhD, (Emeritus}, Rush University, Chicago, IL, USA

J.B. Chassan, PhD

John F. Clarkin, PhD, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

Martha Cox, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Larry Davidson, PhD, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

Bruce P. Dohrenwend, PhD

Sue E. Estroff, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Spencer Eth, MD, University of Miami Hospital and Clinics, Miami, FL, USA

Horacio Fabrega, MD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Marion S. Forgatch, PhD, Oregon Social Learning Center, Eugene, OR, USA

David V. Forrest, MD, New York, NY, USA

Thomas G. Gutheil, MD, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Michael A. Hoge, PhD, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

Margo Horn, PhD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

George W. Howe, PhD, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA

Dilip V. Jeste, MD, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

Merton J. Kahne, MD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

Jerald Kay, MD, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA

Kenneth S. Kendler, MD, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

Robert Liberman, MD, University of California Los Angeles, CA, USA

Don R. Lipsitt, MD, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Martha K. McClintock, MD, PhD, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Robert Michels, MD, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

John M. Morihisa, MD, Capital District Psychiatric Center, Albany, NY, USA

Robert M. Post, MD, Political Psychology Associates, Ltd., Bethesda, MD, USA

Frank W. Putnam, MD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Walter Reich, MD, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA

David Reiss, MD, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

Ronald O. Rieder, MD, New York, NY, USA

Robert G. Robinson, MD, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

Carl Salzman, MD, Harvard University, Boston, MA USA

Kenneth F. Schaffner, MD, PhD, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA

David E. Scharff, MD, International Psychotherapy Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, USA

Stephen J Suomi, PhD, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD, USA

Nina R. Schooler, PhD, SUNY Downstate Health Science University, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Arieh Y. Shalev, MD, New York University, New York, NY, USA

Edward R. Shapiro, MD, Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA, USA

Edward K. Silberman, MD, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

Stephen M. Sonnenberg, MD, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

L. Alan Sroufe, PhD, (Emeritus),  University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

George T. Vaillant, MD, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Fred R. Volkmar, MD, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

Norman F. Watt, PhD, University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA

Daniel R. Weinberger, MD, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

Thomas A. Widiger, PhD, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA

Robert Winer, MD, Private Practice, Bethesda, MD, USA

Irvin D. Yalom, MD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

John Zinner, MD, Private Practice, Bethesda, MD, USA

Abstracting and indexing

Addiction Abstracts, Academic Index, Applied Social Science Index and Abstracts, Bell & Howell Information and Learning, BIOSIS Previews, Chemical Abstracts, Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography, Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences, EMBASE, Index Medicus/MEDLINE, International Review of Psychiatry, PsycINFO, Research Alert, Science Citation Index, Science Citation Index-Expanded, SCOPUS, Social Sciences Citation Index, Social SciSearch, Sociological Abstracts.

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