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BJPsych Bulletin is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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ISSN 2056-4694Verify ISSN ↗2056-4708Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 240 / 580 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.
BJPsych Bulletin is Q2 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 240 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
BJPsych Bulletin is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 58th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.522, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 37.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
BJPsych Bulletin is published by Cambridge University Press. Its print ISSN is 2056-4694 and its online ISSN is 2056-4708.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
BJPsych Bulletin has an h-index of 46 and a 2-year mean of 0.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #383 of 570 Scopus journals in Psychiatry and Mental Health.
BJPsych Bulletin published 125 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 146. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 81 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (70.2%), United States (9.2%) and Canada (2.3%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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