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Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.2), WoS ESCI. Published by Brieflands.
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ISSN 1735-8639Verify ISSN ↗1735-9287Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brieflands
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 454 / 580 | 21st | Q4 |
| Biological Psychiatry | 44 / 54 | 19th | Q4 |
| Behavioral Neuroscience | 80 / 93 | 14th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.2.
Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is Q4 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 454 of 580), Q4 in Biological Psychiatry (rank 44 of 54) and Q4 in Behavioral Neuroscience (rank 80 of 93), by CiteScore 2025.
Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences 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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 21st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.287, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 30.
Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is published by Brieflands. Its print ISSN is 1735-8639 and its online ISSN is 1735-9287.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 3.02 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #111 of 570 Scopus journals in Psychiatry and Mental Health.
Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences published 101 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 123. 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 Iran (87.5%), United States (2%) and Thailand (2%). 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. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.9 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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