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Psychiatric Clinics of North America is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.8), WoS SSCI. Published by W.B. Saunders.
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ISSN 0193-953XVerify ISSN ↗1558-3147Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: W.B. Saunders
Cost to publish: About US$2,900 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 147 / 580 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1978–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.8.
Psychiatric Clinics of North America is Q2 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 147 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Psychiatric Clinics of North America is indexed in the 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 5.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.206, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 122.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,900 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.
Psychiatric Clinics of North America is published by W.B. Saunders. Its print ISSN is 0193-953X and its online ISSN is 1558-3147.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Psychiatric Clinics of North America has an h-index of 152 and a 2-year mean of 2.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #143 of 570 Scopus journals in Psychiatry and Mental Health.
Psychiatric Clinics of North America published 91 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 93 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (67.2%), Australia (12.2%) and Brazil (5.9%). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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