The British Journal of Psychiatry

The British Journal of Psychiatry

 

Frequency: Monthly

 

Circulation: 15,800 (all RCPsych members plus large subscription base)

 

Editor: Prof. 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: 5.077
  • 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).

 

Regular features in BJP include:

  • Highlights
  • Editorials
  • Psychiatry in pictures
  • Review articles
  • Short reports
  • Book reviews
  • Correspondence section
  • From the Editor’s desk

 

Occasional features in BJP include:

  • Debate articles
  • Special papers
  • 100 years ago
  • Psychiatrists in 19th Century fiction
  • Psychiatry in music/the movies
  • Psychiatry in the Old Testament

 

Online BJP extra features:

  • E-letters section.
  • 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
 

 


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