Journal Of Psychopharmacology
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The ''Journal of Psychopharmacology'' is a monthly
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published by
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on behalf of the British Association for Psychopharmacology. It was established in 1987 and is a member of the
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. The
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are
David Nutt David John Nutt (born 16 April 1951) is an English neuropsychopharmacologist specialising in the research of drugs that affect the brain and conditions such as addiction, anxiety, and sleep. He is the chairman of Drug Science, a non-profit wh ...
(
Imperial College London Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...
) and Pierre Blier (
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). The journal covers all aspects of
psychopharmacology Psychopharmacology (from Greek grc, ψῡχή, psȳkhē, breath, life, soul, label=none; grc, φάρμακον, pharmakon, drug, label=none; and grc, -λογία, -logia, label=none) is the scientific study of the effects drugs have on m ...
.


Abstracting and indexing

''Journal of Psychopharmacology'' is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: EMBASE/Excerpta Medica,
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,
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, and the
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. According to the ''
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'', the journal had a 2018
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of 4.738, ranking it 30 out of 197 journals in the category "Clinical Neurology", 53 out of 261 journals in the category "Neurosciences", 22 out of 261 journals in the category "Pharmacology & Pharmacy", and 21 out of 142 journals in the category "Psychiatry".


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External links

* {{Official website, http://www.uk.sagepub.com/journals/Journal200774/title Pharmacology journals Psychiatry journals SAGE Publishing academic journals English-language journals