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Journal of Clinical Psychiatry is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7), WoS SCIE/SSCI. Published by Physicians Postgraduate Press Inc..
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ISSN 0160-6689Verify ISSN ↗1555-2101Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Physicians Postgraduate Press Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 87 / 580 | 85th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1978–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.
Journal of Clinical Psychiatry is Q1 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 87 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Clinical 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 7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.530, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 243.
Journal of Clinical Psychiatry is published by Physicians Postgraduate Press Inc. Its print ISSN is 0160-6689 and its online ISSN is 1555-2101.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Clinical Psychiatry has an h-index of 249 and a 2-year mean of 2.64 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #142 of 570 Scopus journals in Psychiatry and Mental Health.
Journal of Clinical Psychiatry published 179 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 243. 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 90 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (50%), India (8.9%) and Canada (7.1%). 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. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.1 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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