''World Psychiatry'' is a
peer-reviewed medical journal covering research in the area of
psychiatry
Psychiatry is the specialty (medicine), medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders. These include various maladaptations related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions. See glossary of psych ...
. It is the official publication of the
World Psychiatric Association
The World Psychiatric Association is an international umbrella organisation of psychiatric societies.
Objectives and goals
Originally created to produce world psychiatric congresses, it has evolved to hold regional meetings, to promote profess ...
.
It is published by
Wiley-Blackwell
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and the
editor-in-chief
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The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
is
Mario Maj
Mario Maj is an Italian psychiatrist and professor who has been President of the World Psychiatric Association (2008-2011) and of the European Psychiatric Association (2003-2004). He is the founder and Editor of ''World Psychiatry
''World Psychiat ...
.
Abstracting and indexing
According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal has a 2021
impact factor
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of 79.683. It is ranked no. 1 out of 155 journals in the category Psychiatry and no. 1 out of 3,414 journals in the
Social Sciences Citation Index category.
The journal is abstracted and indexed in
PubMed
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, Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Embase.
In addition to the English edition, the journal is also available in Arabic, Chinese language, Chinese, French language, French, Russian language, Russian, Spanish language, Spanish and Turkish language, Turkish.
See also
* List of psychiatry journals
References
External links
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Multilingual journals
Psychiatry journals
Publications established in 2002
Triannual journals
Wiley-Blackwell academic journals
World Psychiatric Association