The British Journal of Psychiatry
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Frequency:
Monthly
Circulation: 17,500
(all RCPsych members plus large subscription base)
Editor: Professor
Peter Tyrer, Professor of Community Psychiatry at Imperial College,
London. Full Editorial
Board
ISSN (Print):
0007-1250
Online version ISSN: 1472-1465
Audience: Psychiatrists, clinical
psychologists and all other mental health professionals.
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The British Journal of Psychiatry is a leading
international psychiatric journal, It contains the best original
research papers from around the world covering all branches of the
subject, with an overriding concern to improve the prevention,
investigation, diagnosis, treatment, and care of mental illness,
and the promotion of mental health globally.
- High Impact Factor: 6.619
- Third most-cited general psychiatry
journal in the world (based on ISI rankings).
- Full peer-review process.
- A series of supplements provides
extensive in-depth coverage of selected areas (several per
year).
- MEDLINE indexed.
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Regular
features in BJPsych include:
- Highlights
- Editorials
- Psychiatry in pictures
- Review articles
- Short reports
- Book reviews
- Correspondence section
- From the Editor’s desk
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Occasional
features in BJPsych include:
- Debate articles
- Special papers
- 100 years ago
- Psychiatrists in 19th Century
fiction
- Psychiatry in music/the movies
- Psychiatry in the Old Testament
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Online BJPsych has the
following extra features:
- E-letters section.
- Latest research published online
ahead of print.
- Some articles online contain extra
text.
- Full text archive dating back to
2000.
- Full text (as PDFs), contents lists
and abstracts archive dating back to 1855.
- More online features