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Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.7), WoS SCIE/SSCI. Published by Canadian Science Publishing.
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ISSN 1180-4882Verify ISSN ↗1488-2434Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Canadian Science Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 100 / 580 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Pharmacology (medical) | 58 / 278 | 79th | Q1 |
| Biological Psychiatry | 15 / 54 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1991–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.7.
Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience is Q1 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 100 of 580), Q1 in Pharmacology (medical) (rank 58 of 278) and Q2 in Biological Psychiatry (rank 15 of 54), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience 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 6.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.378, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 120.
Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience is published by Canadian Science Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1180-4882 and its online ISSN is 1488-2434.
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 Psychiatry and Neuroscience has an h-index of 122 and a 2-year mean of 14.96 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 570 Scopus journals in Psychiatry and Mental Health.
Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 76. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Canada (31.8%), China (27.3%) and United States (8.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.4 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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