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Journal of ECT is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 3), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
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ISSN 1095-0680Verify ISSN ↗1533-4112Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 300 / 580 | 48th | Q3 |
| Neuroscience (miscellaneous) | 42 / 74 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1998–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 3.
Journal of ECT is Q3 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 300 of 580) and Q3 in Neuroscience (miscellaneous) (rank 42 of 74), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of ECT 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 3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 48th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.757, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 73.
Journal of ECT is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. Its print ISSN is 1095-0680 and its online ISSN is 1533-4112.
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 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 ECT has an h-index of 81 and a 2-year mean of 1.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #355 of 570 Scopus journals in Psychiatry and Mental Health.
Journal of ECT published 108 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 121. 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (30%), India (17.2%) and Japan (8.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (1.5 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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