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Indian Journal of Psychiatry is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.9), WoS SCIE/SSCI, DOAJ. Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0019-5545Verify ISSN ↗1998-3794Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 306 / 580 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present (also 1973–1984, 1970), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.9.
Indian Journal of Psychiatry is Q3 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 306 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Indian Journal of Psychiatry is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences 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 2.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 47th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.649, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 65.
Indian Journal of Psychiatry is published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. Its print ISSN is 0019-5545 and its online ISSN is 1998-3794.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Indian Journal of Psychiatry has an h-index of 95 and a 2-year mean of 2.11 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #198 of 570 Scopus journals in Psychiatry and Mental Health.
Indian Journal of Psychiatry published 229 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 759. 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 94 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (87.4%), Taiwan (2.1%) and Türkiye (2.1%). 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. 6 retracted papers are recorded (1.5 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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