About this journal
Aims and scope
The European Journal of Psychotraumatology (EJPT) is a peer-reviewed open access interdisciplinary journal owned by the European Society of Traumatic Stress Studies (ESTSS).
Aims: The European Journal of Psychotraumatology (EJPT) aims to engage scholars, clinicians and researchers in the vital issues of how to understand, prevent and treat the consequences of stress and trauma, including but not limited to, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depressive disorders, substance abuse, burnout, and neurobiological or physical consequences, using the latest research or clinical experience in these areas. The journal shares ESTSS’ mission to advance and disseminate scientific knowledge about traumatic stress. Papers may address individual events, repeated or chronic (complex) trauma, large scale disasters, or violence.
Being open access, the European Journal of Psychotraumatology is also evidence of ESTSS’ stand on free accessibility of research publications to a wider community via the web.
Scope: The European Journal of Psychotraumatology seeks to attract contributions from academics and practitioners from diverse professional backgrounds, including, but not restricted to, those in mental health, social sciences, and health and welfare services. Contributions from outside Europe are welcome.
The journal welcomes original basic and clinical research articles that consolidate and expand the theoretical and professional basis of the field of traumatic stress; Review articles including meta-analyses; short communications presenting new ideas or early-stage promising research; study protocols that describe proposed or ongoing research; case reports examining a single individual or event in a real‑life context; clinical practice papers sharing experience from the clinic; letters to the Editor debating articles already published in the Journal; inaugural Lectures; conference abstracts and book reviews. Both quantitative and qualitative research is welcome.
The European Journal of Psychotraumatology is open to innovative, unconventional, or inspirational contributions that move the field forward. All research papers undergo strict peer review.
Topics:
- Assessment, Diagnosis
- Prevention, Early Interventions
- Clinical or Interventions Research
- Complex PTSD, dissociation, long term treatment
- (Neuro)Biological, Medical, Neuroimaging
- Physical health, comorbidities
- Biomarkers, Medication (enhanced) treatment
- Integrative approaches
- Life span (Children through old age)
- Human rights, Social Policy, Refugees, Ethics, Culture
- Diversity (incl Gender)
- Community Programs
- Disaster, Mass Trauma
- (Sexual) abuse
- Military, Police, Emergency Services, Aid Workers
- Research Methodology
- Internet and Technology
- Policy, Societal impact
- Health economics, cost effectiveness
- Media
- History
Journal metrics
Usage
- 1.3M annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 4.2 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 4.9 (2023) 5 year IF
- 7.6 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.499 (2023) SNIP
- 1.884 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 42 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 60 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 20 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 48% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
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Journal metrics in brief
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 the following metrics (find out why).
- 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.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editor-in-Chief
Miranda Olff, PhD, Professor in Psychotraumatology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers (location AMC), University of Amsterdam & Director of Research, ARQ National Psychotrauma Center, The Netherlands
Associate Editors
Ananda Amstadter, PhD, Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Anka A. Vujanovic, PhD, Professor and Director of Clinical Training, Texas A&M University, USA
Anke Ehlers, PhD, Professor and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, University of Oxford, UK
Antonia V. Seligowski, PhD, Assistant Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School,USA
Barbara Niles, PhD, Associate Professor of Pychiatry, Boston University Chobonian and Avedisian School of Medicine, USA & Research Psychologist, National Center for PTSD Behavioral Science Division at VA Boston Healthcare System, USA
Cherie Armour, PhD, Professor of Psychological Trauma and Mental Health, Queens University Belfast, UK
Debbie Kaminer, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Eric Bui, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Caen Normandy, Caen, France; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Irma Hein, PhD, Associate Professor, Amsterdam University Medical Center & Child Psychiatrist, Levvel, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Maj Hansen, PhD, Associate Professor in Psychology, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Matthew Price, PhD, George W. Albee & Gold Professor of Psychological Science, University of Vermont, USA
Marianne Skogbrott Birkeland, PhD, Research Professor, Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, Norway
Marylene Cloitre, PhD, Associated Director of Research, National Center for PTSD in Palo Alto, California, USA; New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, USA
Neil Roberts, D. Clin. Psy., Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Cardiff & Vale University Health Board, UK & Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Cardiff University, UK
Nicole Nugent, PhD, Associate Professor, Warren Alpert Medical School, Borwn University, USA and Clinical Psychologist, Hasbro Children's Hospital, USA
Soraya Seedat, MD, PhD, Head of Psychiatry, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Talya Greene, PhD MPH, Associate Professor, University College London, UK
Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, Western University of Canada, Canada
Statistical Advisor
Tore Wentzel-Larsen, MSc, PhD, Researcher in Statistics, Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, and Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Eastern and Southern Norway, Norway
Editorial Board
A. Nuray Karanci. PhD, Professor in Psychology, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Agorastos Agorastos, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Aleksandra Luszczynska, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland
Alyson Zalta, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychological Science, University of California, USA
Andreas Maercker, MD, PhD, Full Professor in Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Arieh Y. Shalev, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, NYU Langone Medical Center, USA
Birgit Kleim, PhD, Professor at Center for Psychiatric Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Brian Albanese, PhD, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University, USA
Brian Hall, PhD, Professor of Global Public Health, New York University Shanghai, China
Brigitte Lueger-Schuster, PhD, Professor in Psychotraumatology, University of Vienna, Austria
Catrin Lewis, PhD, Research Associate, National Centre for Mental Health, Cardiff, UK
Dan J. Stein, PhD, D.Phil, Head of Department in Psychiatry & Mental Health, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Dean Ajdukovic, PhD, Professor Emeritus in Psychology, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Dominic Murphy, MA, PhD, DClinPsy, Head of Research, Combat Stress, UK
Donncha Hanna, PhD, Reader at the School of Psychology, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
Dorte M. Christiansen, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Duane Booysen, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Rhodes University, South Africa
Edward Pace-Schott, MS, MA, PhD, Director of Sleep and Anxiety Disorders Laboratory and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, USA
Elizabeth Goetter, PhD, Clinical Psychologist and Co-Director of Psychology, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, USA
Emily McGlinchey, PhD, Research Fellow in Psychology, Queen's University, Northern Ireland
Eva Alisic, PhD, Associate Professor, Monash University, Australia
Evaldas Kazlauskas, PhD, Professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychotraumatology, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Farid Najafi, MD, PhD, Vice Chancellor of Education, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Filip Arnberg, PhD, Director of National Centre for Disaster Psychology, Uppsala University, Sweden
Ingo Schaefer, MD, Director of Center for Interdisciplinary Addiction Research, University Hamburg- Eppendorf, Germany
Iris Engelhard, PhD, Professor of Clinical Psychology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Jana Darejan Javakhishvili, PhD, Associate Professor in School of Arts and Science, Ilia State University, Georgia
Jana Ross, PhD, Research Assistant in School of Applied Social and Policy Sciences, Ulster University, UK
Jennifer A. Sumner, PhD, Assistant Professor Department of Psychology, UCLA, USA
Jennifer Wild, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
Jo Billings, DClinPsych, Associate Clinical Professor in Division of Psychiatry, University College London, UK
Joanne Mouthaan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Joan M. Cook, Ph.D, Professor, Yale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, USA
Jonathan Bisson, PhD, FRCPsych DM, Professor in Psychiatry, Cardiff University, UK
Julian D. Ford, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut Health Center, USA
Jun Shigemura, MD, PhD, Professor in Faculty of Health Sciences, Mejiro University, Japan
Kaitlin (Katie) Bountress, PhD, Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Karen-Inge Karstoft, PhD, Associate Professor at Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Lana Ruvolo Grasser, PhD, Postdocoral Fellow, Wayne State University, USA
Lauren Ann McDonough Lebois, PhD, Director of Neuroimaging, Dissociative Disorders and Trauma Research Program and Instructor in Psychiatry, McLean Hospital & Harvard Medical School, USA
Li Wang, PhD, Professor in Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Liat Helpman, PhD, Senior Lecturer and Head of the STAGS Lab, University of Haifa, Israel
Marcin Rzeszutek, PhD, Assistant Professor at Faculty of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Poland
Margarida Figueiredo-Braga, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in Clinical Neurosciences and Mental Health, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Maria Böttche, PhD, Head of Research Department, Zentrum Überleben, Berlin, Germany
Marie-France Marin, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Martin Robinson, PhD, Research Fellow in the School of Psychology, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
Meaghan O'Donnell, PhD, Head of Research in Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Australia
Mira Vasileva, PhD, Child and Community Wellbeing Unit, Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Australia
Miriam Lommen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Mirjam van Zuiden, PhD, Assistant Professor, Amsterdam University Medical Centers (location AMC), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Monique Pfaltz, PhD, Assistant Professor in Psychiatry Research, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
Namik Kirlic, PhD, Associate Investigator at Laureate Institute for Brain Research, USA
Nancy Kassam-Adams, PhD, Research Professor in Paediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Nasser F BinDhim, PhD, Chief Research Advisor at Saudi Food and Drug Authority, Saudi Arabia; ViceChair Board of Directors at Sharik Association for Health Research, Saudi Arabia; Adjunct Assistant Professor at College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia
Patrícia Correia Santos, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Maia, Portugal
Paul Boelen, PhD, Professor in Clinical Psychology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Paul Frewen, PhD, Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Philip Held, PhD, Assistant Professor in Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, USA
Rachel Yehuda, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Director of the Center for Psychedelic Psychotherapy and Trauma Research, Director of the Traumatic Stress Studies Division, Mount Sinai School of Medicine/J.J. Peters VAMC, USA
Regina Steil, PhD, Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany
Rens van de Schoot, PhD, Professor in Statistics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Rodrigo A. Figueroa Cabello, MD, MHA, Associate Professor of Psychiatry (Trauma and Dissociation), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile School of Medicine, Chile
Ruby Charak, M.Phil, PhD, Assistant Professor in Department of Psychological Science, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA
Sara Freedman, PhD, Acting Coordinator of Clinical Practice Program at The Louis and Gabi Weisfeld School of Social Work, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Simon Wessely, PhD, FMedSci, Regius Chair in Psychiatry, King’s College London, UK
Sophie Lykkegaard Ravn, PhD, Assistant Professor in Department of Psychology, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Suzanne Pineles, PhD, Clinical Psychologist in Women's Health Sciences Division, National Center for PTSD & Boston University, USA
Tanja Michael, D.Phil, Chair of Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, Saarland University, Germany
Tobias Raphael Spiller, Research Associate, University Hospital in Zürich, Switzerland
Ulrich Schnyder, MD, PhD, Professor Emeritus in Department of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Victoria Williamson, PhD, Research Fellow in Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings College London; Department of Psychiatry and Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
Wissam El Hage, MD, PhD, Full Professor of Psychiatry, University of Tours, France
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