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Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.7), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 0253-7176Verify ISSN ↗0975-1564Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Psychology | 117 / 314 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 259 / 580 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.7.
Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine is Q2 in Clinical Psychology (rank 117 of 314) and Q2 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 259 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine 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 3.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.581, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 50.
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.
Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0253-7176 and its online ISSN is 0975-1564.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine has an h-index of 69 and a 2-year mean of 2.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #61 of 308 Scopus journals in Clinical Psychology.
Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine published 182 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 252. 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 93 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (85.1%), Malaysia (3.2%) and United Kingdom (2.9%). 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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