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The Lancet Psychiatry is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 39.4), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 2215-0366Verify ISSN ↗2215-0374Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$7,280 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 2 / 580 | 99th | Q1 |
| Biological Psychiatry | 1 / 54 | 99th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 39.4.
The Lancet Psychiatry is Q1 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 2 of 580) and Q1 in Biological Psychiatry (rank 1 of 54), by CiteScore 2025.
The Lancet 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 39.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 8.070, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 176.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$7,280 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.
The Lancet Psychiatry is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2215-0366 and its online ISSN is 2215-0374.
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.
The Lancet Psychiatry has an h-index of 219 and a 2-year mean of 8.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 39.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #14 of 570 Scopus journals in Psychiatry and Mental Health.
The Lancet Psychiatry published 218 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 380. 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 83 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (26.3%), United States (18.4%) and Australia (5.5%).
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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