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Perspectives in Psychiatric Care is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.4), WoS SCIE/SSCI. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 0031-5990Verify ISSN ↗1744-6163Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$2,710 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychiatric Mental Health | 4 / 47 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present (also 1987, 1963–1985), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.4.
Perspectives in Psychiatric Care is Q1 in Psychiatric Mental Health (rank 4 of 47), by CiteScore 2025.
Perspectives in Psychiatric Care 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 6.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.733, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 58.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,710 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.
Perspectives in Psychiatric Care is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 0031-5990 and its online ISSN is 1744-6163.
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.
Perspectives in Psychiatric Care has an h-index of 69 and a 2-year mean of 0.85 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #30 of 46 Scopus journals in Psychiatric Mental Health.
Perspectives in Psychiatric Care published 40 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 301. 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 94 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Türkiye (35.6%), China (21.9%) and United States (5.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 5 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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