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International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.3), WoS SCIE/SSCI, DOAJ. Published by Wiley-Blackwell.
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ISSN 1049-8931Verify ISSN ↗1557-0657Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 177 / 580 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.3.
International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research is Q2 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 177 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research 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 5.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.316, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 96.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,070 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 Methods in Psychiatric Research is published by Wiley-Blackwell. Its print ISSN is 1049-8931 and its online ISSN is 1557-0657.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research has an h-index of 113 and a 2-year mean of 3.32 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #87 of 570 Scopus journals in Psychiatry and Mental Health.
International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research published 42 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 64. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (19.2%), United Kingdom (8.4%) and Türkiye (7.3%).
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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