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Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.7), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by D. Steinkopff-Verlag.
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ISSN 0933-7954Verify ISSN ↗1433-9285Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: D. Steinkopff-Verlag
Cost to publish: About US$4,390 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health (social science) | 24 / 387 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Social Psychology | 28 / 315 | 91st | Q1 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 67 / 580 | 88th | Q1 |
| Epidemiology | 21 / 173 | 88th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.7.
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology is Q1 in Health (social science) (rank 24 of 387), Q1 in Social Psychology (rank 28 of 315) and Q1 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 67 of 580), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 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 7.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.584, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 160.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,390 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.
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology is published by D. Steinkopff-Verlag. Its print ISSN is 0933-7954 and its online ISSN is 1433-9285.
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.
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology has an h-index of 202 and a 2-year mean of 2.88 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #48 of 378 Scopus journals in Health (social science).
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology published 211 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (16.3%), United Kingdom (12%) and Australia (9.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.2 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.
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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