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Journal of Creativity in Mental Health is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.4), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1540-1383Verify ISSN ↗1540-1391Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Psychology | 173 / 314 | 45th | Q3 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 353 / 580 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.4.
Journal of Creativity in Mental Health is Q3 in Clinical Psychology (rank 173 of 314) and Q3 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 353 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Creativity in Mental Health 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 2.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 45th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.347, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 30.
Journal of Creativity in Mental Health is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1540-1383 and its online ISSN is 1540-1391.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Creativity in Mental Health has an h-index of 38 and a 2-year mean of 0.99 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #179 of 308 Scopus journals in Clinical Psychology.
Journal of Creativity in Mental Health published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 72. 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 98 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (84.2%), Ireland (2%) and United Kingdom (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. 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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