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| Discipline | Psychiatry |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Yifeng Xu ( Chinese name: 徐一峰); Jinghong Chen (Chinese name: 陈京红) |
| Publication details | |
Former name | Shanghai Archives of Psychiatry (Chinese name: 上海精神医学) |
| History | 1959–present |
| Publisher | BMJ Publishing Group (China) |
| Frequency | Bimonthly |
| Yes | |
| License | Creative Commons Attribution License |
| 5.3 (2023) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Gen. Psychiatry |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 2096-5923 (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]
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]
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]