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Welcome to the World Journal of Psychiatry

World Journal of Psychiatry (WJPWorld J Psychiatry) is a high-quality, online, open-access, single-blind peer-reviewed journal published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. WJP accepts both solicited and unsolicited manuscripts. Articles published in WJP are high-quality, clinical and basic, influential research articles by established academic authors as well as new researchers. The paramount objective of WJP is to showcase and promote distinguished research in the field of psychiatry, to help advance development of this field. The types of articles published in WJP include Editorial, Opinion Review, Frontier, Review, Minireview, Clinical Research, Basic Study, Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, Evidence-based Medicine, Field of Vision, Clinical Guidelines, Letter to the Editor, and Case Report. Submit here >>

2024 Published Issues
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Editors-in-Chief
  • Ting-Shao Zhu, PhD, Professor, (E-mail: tszhu@psych.ac.cn) Division of Social and Engineering Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Indexing/Abstracting
The WJP is now abstracted and indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE, also known as SciSearch®), Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, PubMed, PubMed Central, Reference Citation Analysis, China Science and Technology Journal Database, and Superstar Journals Database.
Journal Metrics

The 2023 Edition of Journal Citation Reports® cites the 2022 impact factor (IF) for WJP as 3.1; IF without journal self cites: 2.9; 5-year IF: 4.2; Journal Citation Indicator: 0.52; Ranking: 91 among 155 journals in psychiatry; and Quartile category: Q3.

ISSN
2220-3206 (online)
Editorial
Review
Ali Ahmed Mohamed, Steven Faragalla, Asad Khan, Garrett Flynn, Gersham Rainone, Phillip Mitchell Johansen, Brandon Lucke-Wold 
World J Psychiatry 14(5):624-634. Published online May 19, 2024. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v14.i5.624
Minireviews
Retrospective Study
Observational Study
Wei Ding, Min-Zhong Wang, Xian-Wei Zeng, Zhen-Hua Liu, Yao Meng, Hui-Ting Hu, Yuan Zhang, Yu-Guang Guan, Fan-Gang Meng, Jian-Guo Zhang, Shu Wang 
World J Psychiatry 14(5):704-714. Published online May 19, 2024. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v14.i5.704
Prospective Study
Scientometrics
Meng-Di Zhang, Rong-Quan He, Jia-Yuan Luo, Wan-Ying Huang, Jing-Yu Wei, Jian Dai, Hong Huang, Zhen Yang, Jin-Liang Kong, Gang Chen 
World J Psychiatry 14(5):742-759. Published online May 19, 2024. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v14.i5.742