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Nature Mental Health is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.1), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2731-6076Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: About US$12,690 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neuroscience (miscellaneous) | 5 / 74 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 63 / 580 | 89th | Q1 |
| Biological Psychiatry | 9 / 54 | 84th | Q1 |
| Molecular Medicine | 49 / 179 | 72nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.1.
Nature Mental Health is Q1 in Neuroscience (miscellaneous) (rank 5 of 74), Q1 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 63 of 580) and Q1 in Biological Psychiatry (rank 9 of 54), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Nature 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 8.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.705, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 26.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$12,690 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Nature Mental Health is published by Springer Nature. Its ISSN is 2731-6076.
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.
Nature Mental Health has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 6.65 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 73 Scopus journals in Neuroscience (miscellaneous).
Nature Mental Health published 196 papers in 2025. 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 (40.3%), United Kingdom (12.9%) and Germany (6%).
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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