Indian Journal of Psychiatry

*Indian Journal of Psychiatry*
Discipline	Psychiatry
Language	English
Edited by	Om Prakash Singh
Publication details
Former names	Indian Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry
History	1949-present
Publisher	Medknow Publications on behalf of the Indian Psychiatric Society (India)
Frequency	Monthly
Open access	Yes
Impact factor	2.983 (2021)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Indian J. Psychiatry
Indexing;
ISSN	0019-5545 ;
OCLC no.	746945928
Links
	Journal homepage ; Online access ; Online archive ;

Last updated December 22, 2025

History

The journal was established in 1949 as the Indian Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry and obtained its present name in 1958. The editor-in-chief is Om Prakash Singh The following persons have been editors-in-chief:

N. N. De (1949–1951)
L. P. Verma (1951–1958)
A. N. Bardhan (1958–1960)
M. R. Vachha (1961–1967)
A. Venkoba Rao (1968–1976)
B. B. Sethi (1977–1984)
S. M. Channabasavanna (1985–1988)
A. K. Agarwal (1989–1992)
K. Kuruvilla (1993–1996)
J. K. Trivedi (1997–2002)
U. Goswami (2003)
T. S. S. Rao (2004)
N. G. Desai (2005–2006)
T. S. S. Rao (2007-2018)
G. Swaminath (2007)
T. S. Sathyanarayana

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus,^[1] EBSCO databases, Expanded Academic ASAP, and InfoTrac.

Retraction

In 2016, the journal retracted a 2013 supplementary paper because it plagiarized a Wikipedia article.^[2]^[3]

References

↑ "Content overview". Scopus. Elsevier . Retrieved 2015-04-01.
↑ "Wikipedia page reincarnated as paper: Authors plagiarized paper on reincarnation". Retraction Watch . Retrieved 2016-02-02.
↑ "Article retracted after 'overlapping text' from Wikipedia found". The Hindu . 6 February 2016. Retrieved 2016-02-12.

External links

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[Scopus-1] "Content overview". Scopus. Elsevier . Retrieved 2015-04-01.

[2] "Wikipedia page reincarnated as paper: Authors plagiarized paper on reincarnation". Retraction Watch . Retrieved 2016-02-02.

[3] "Article retracted after 'overlapping text' from Wikipedia found". The Hindu . 6 February 2016. Retrieved 2016-02-12.

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v t e Mental health and healthcare in India
Psychiatric hospitals and other in-patient units	Antara Bangur Institute of Neurosciences Central Institute of Psychiatry Ranchi Institute of Mental Health, Amritsar Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research State Mental Health Institute Vidyasagar Institute of Mental Health and Neuro and Allied Sciences Yerwada Mental Hospital
Non-governmental organizations	AASRA The Alternative Story The Banyan Lifeline Foundation The Live Love Laugh Foundation Schizophrenia Research Foundation Vandrevala Foundation
Mental health professional associations	Indian Psychiatric Society Indian Association of Private Psychiatry Indian Association of Clinical Psychology National Academy of Psychology
Mental health journals	Indian Journal of Psychiatry Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Mens Sana Monographs
Key people	H. Narayan Murthy Radhika Chandiramani Bhargavi Davar Vikram Patel Anirudh Kala Alok Sarin Indira Sharma Shekhar Seshadri Girindrasekhar Bose M. Sarada Menon
Controversy & criticism	Erwadi fire incident Political abuse of psychiatry in India