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Aims and scope

Cogent Mental Health is an open access and peer-reviewed journal that takes an innovative, broad, multidisciplinary perspective. The journal publishes research focusing on the breadth of subject domains that encompass mental health including the fields of psychiatry, psychology, counselling and psychotherapy. Sections are topic-based and bring together work from multiple perspectives of the disciplines and professions involved.

Journal metrics

Usage

6K annual downloads/views

Speed/acceptance

7 days avg. from submission to first decision
12 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
26% acceptance rate

Understanding and using journal metrics

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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:
Jeffrey A. Hayes - Pennsylvania State University, United States

Associate Editors:

Chiara Baglioni - Guglielmo Marconi University, Italy
Alice Coyne - Case Western Reserve University, United States
Nick Firth - University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Helene A. Nissen-Lie - University of Oslo, Norway
Clara Paz - Universidad de Las Américas, Ecuador
Marc Williams - Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Stephen Wilson - Penn State Neuroscience Institute, United States

Editorial Review Board

Jacques Barber, Adelphi University, United States

James Boswell, University at Albany, United States

Louis Castonguay, Pennsylvania State University, United States

Julie Christiansen, University of Denmark, Denmark

Mike Constantino, University of Massachusetts, United States

Mick Cooper, University of Roehampton, United Kingdom

Guiellermo de la Parra, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile

Catherine Dempsey, Uniformed Services University & Henry M. Jackson Foundation, United States

David Disabato, Baldwin Wallace University, United States

Daniel Espinosa, Universidad CES, Columbia & Millennium Institute for Research in Depression and Personality, Chile

Barry Farber, Columbia University, United States

Beatriz Gomez, PhD, CEO at Aigle Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Jo Hall, National Health Service, United Kingdom

Armin Hartmann, University of Freiburg, Germany

Roger Hagen, University of Oslo, Norway

Andreas Høstmælingen, University of Oslo, Norway

Micaela Jiménez, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador

Stevan Lars Nielsen, Brigham Young University, USA

Allison Lockard, Bucknell University, United States

Ben Locke, Togetherall, Inc., United States

Wolfgang Lutz, University of Trier, Germany

Guido Mascialino, Universidad de Las Américas, Ecuador

J. Christopher Muran, Adelphi University, United States

Marta Salla Martínez, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain

Terje Tilden, Modum Bad, Norway

Nicholas Morrison, Westfield State University, United States

Janet McCracken, The Highlands, United States

Andrew Page, University of Western Australia, Australia

Juan Martin Gomez Penedo, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Jérémie Richard, McGill University, Canada

Juan Riker, University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

Pablo Sabucedo, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

Claudia Velarde, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru

Curt West, Uniformed Services University, United States

Stephen Wilson, Penn State Neuroscience Institute, United States

Soo Jeong Youn, Harvard Medical School, United States

Abstracting and indexing

Cogent Mental Health is abstracted/indexed in:

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Open access

Cogent Mental Health is an open access journal and only publishes open access articles. 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.

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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)

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