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South African Journal of Psychiatry is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.3), WoS SCIE/SSCI, DOAJ. Published by AOSIS (Pty) Ltd.
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ISSN 1608-9685Verify ISSN ↗2078-6786Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: AOSIS (Pty) Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 359 / 580 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.3.
South African Journal of Psychiatry is Q3 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 359 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
South African Journal of Psychiatry 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 2.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 38th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.530, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 25.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$562 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.
South African Journal of Psychiatry is published by AOSIS (Pty) Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1608-9685 and its online ISSN is 2078-6786.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
South African Journal of Psychiatry has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 1.25 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #331 of 570 Scopus journals in Psychiatry and Mental Health.
South African Journal of Psychiatry published 62 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 66. 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 95 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (71.5%), Botswana (3.7%) and Türkiye (3.7%). 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.
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