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General Psychiatry is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by BMJ Publishing Group.
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ISSN 2096-5923Verify ISSN ↗2517-729XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 23 / 580 | 96th | Q1 |
| Neurology | 11 / 201 | 94th | Q1 |
| Neurology (clinical) | 24 / 403 | 94th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.4.
General Psychiatry is Q1 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 23 of 580), Q1 in Neurology (rank 11 of 201) and Q1 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 24 of 403), by CiteScore 2025.
General Psychiatry 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 12.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.487, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 54.
General Psychiatry is published by BMJ Publishing Group. Its print ISSN is 2096-5923 and its online ISSN is 2517-729X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
General Psychiatry has an h-index of 51 and a 2-year mean of 7.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #17 of 570 Scopus journals in Psychiatry and Mental Health.
General Psychiatry published 68 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 90. 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 China (62.5%), United States (9.5%) and United Kingdom (5.1%). 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. 3 retracted papers are recorded (5 per 1,000 papers). 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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