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World Psychiatry is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 84.8), WoS SCIE/SSCI. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 1723-8617Verify ISSN ↗2051-5545Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 1 / 580 | 99th | Q1 |
| Psychiatric Mental Health | 1 / 47 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 84.8.
World Psychiatry is Q1 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 1 of 580) and Q1 in Psychiatric Mental Health (rank 1 of 47), by CiteScore 2025.
World 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 84.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 20.787, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 170.
World Psychiatry is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 1723-8617 and its online ISSN is 2051-5545.
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.
World Psychiatry has an h-index of 199 and a 2-year mean of 17.99 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 84.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 570 Scopus journals in Psychiatry and Mental Health.
World Psychiatry published 118 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 119. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (28.4%), United Kingdom (15.1%) and Australia (7.5%).
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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