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BMJ Mental Health is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by BMJ Publishing Group.
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ISSN 2755-9734Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 60 / 580 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.3.
BMJ Mental Health is Q1 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 60 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
BMJ Mental Health is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 8.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.833, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 57.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. Authors elsewhere should check the fee on the journal's own website.
BMJ Mental Health is published by BMJ Publishing Group. Its ISSN is 2755-9734.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
BMJ Mental Health has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 5.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #32 of 570 Scopus journals in Psychiatry and Mental Health.
BMJ Mental Health published 142 papers in 2025. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (34.6%), United States (15.2%) and Sweden (5.8%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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