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International Journal of Bipolar Disorders is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 2194-7511Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 134 / 580 | 76th | Q1 |
| Biological Psychiatry | 22 / 54 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.
International Journal of Bipolar Disorders is Q1 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 134 of 580) and Q2 in Biological Psychiatry (rank 22 of 54), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Bipolar Disorders 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 6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.423, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 42.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,990 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
International Journal of Bipolar Disorders is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its ISSN is 2194-7511.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
International Journal of Bipolar Disorders has an h-index of 51 and a 2-year mean of 4.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #53 of 570 Scopus journals in Psychiatry and Mental Health.
International Journal of Bipolar Disorders published 41 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 45. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (13%), Germany (7.7%) and United Kingdom (7.7%).
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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