This blog post aims to provide a list of top research journals that publish research related to psychiatry and mental health. The top 50, high impact factor psychiatry journals are listed. From the psychiatry journals list, the journal “world psychiatry” has the highest impact factor of 79.683.
Moreover, all these below-listed journals are PubMed-indexed.
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List of highest impact factor psychiatry journals – Top Journals
| S. No. | Journal Title | CiteScore | Impact Factor | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | World Psychiatry | 53.2 | 79.683 | Wiley-Blackwell |
| 2 | The Lancet Psychiatry | 37.8 | 77.056 | Elsevier |
| 3 | Annual Review of Clinical Psychology | 29.0 | 22.098 | Annual Reviews Inc. |
| 4 | JAMA Psychiatry | 27.7 | 25.911 | American Medical Association |
| 5 | American Journal of Psychiatry | 21.5 | 19.242 | American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. |
| 6 | Molecular Psychiatry | 19.5 | 13.437 | Springer Nature |
| 7 | Alzheimer’s and Dementia | 18.0 | 16.655 | Wiley-Blackwell |
| 8 | Clinical Psychology Review | 17.1 | 11.397 | Elsevier |
| 9 | Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics | 17.0 | 25.617 | Karger |
| 10 | Evidence-Based Mental Health | 15.2 | 13.538 | BMJ Publishing Group |
| 11 | Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry | 15.1 | 13.65 | BMJ Publishing Group |
| 12 | Health Psychology Review | 13.8 | 9.638 | Taylor & Francis |
| 13 | Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | 13.3 | 13.113 | Elsevier |
| 14 | Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry | 13.1 | 8.265 | Wiley-Blackwell |
| 15 | Neuropsychopharmacology | 13.0 | 8.294 | Springer Nature |
| 16 | Schizophrenia Bulletin | 12.6 | 7.348 | Oxford University Press |
| 17 | Current Neuropharmacology | 11.7 | 7.708 | Bentham |
| 18 | General PsychiatryOpen Access | 11.6 | – | BMJ Publishing Group |
| 19 | Journal of Behavioral AddictionsOpen Access | 11.5 | 7.772 | Akademiai Kiado |
| 20 | Psychological Medicine | 11.5 | 10.592 | Cambridge University Press |
| 21 | Developmental Review | 11.3 | 8.361 | Elsevier |
| 22 | Depression and Anxiety | 11.1 | 8.128 | Wiley-Blackwell |
| 23 | British Journal of Psychiatry | 10.7 | 10.671 | Royal College of Psychiatrists |
| 24 | Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica | 10.5 | 7.734 | Wiley-Blackwell |
| 25 | Journal of Anxiety Disorders | 10.2 | 13.711 | Elsevier |
| 26 | Alzheimer’s and Dementia: Translational Research and Clinical InterventionsOpen Access | 10.1 | – | Wiley-Blackwell |
| 27 | Current Psychiatry Reports | 10.1 | 8.081 | Springer Nature |
| 28 | Molecular AutismOpen Access | 10.0 | 6.476 | Springer Nature |
| 29 | Addiction | 9.8 | 7.256 | Wiley-Blackwell |
| 30 | CNS Drugs | 9.8 | 6.497 | Springer Nature |
| 31 | Epidemiology and Psychiatric SciencesOpen Access | 9.8 | 7.818 | Cambridge University Press |
| 32 | Alcohol research : current reviews | 9.3 | 7.654 | US National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism |
| 33 | Journal of Abnormal Psychology | 9.3 | 7.507 | APA |
| 34 | International Journal of NeuropsychopharmacologyOpen Access | 9.1 | 5.678 | Oxford University Press |
| 35 | International Journal of Social Psychiatry | 9.1 | 10.461 | SAGE |
| 36 | Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences | 9.1 | 12.145 | Wiley-Blackwell |
| 37 | American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry | 9.0 | 7.996 | Elsevier |
| 38 | Psychotherapy | 9.0 | 6.596 | APA |
| 39 | CNS Neuroscience and TherapeuticsOpen Access | 8.9 | 7.035 | Wiley-Blackwell |
| 40 | Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | 8.8 | 7.156 | APA |
| 41 | Comprehensive PsychiatryOpen Access | 8.7 | 7.211 | Elsevier |
| 42 | Psychiatry Research | 8.7 | 11.225 | Elsevier |
| 43 | Bipolar Disorders | 8.6 | 5.345 | Wiley-Blackwell |
| 44 | Pharmacopsychiatry | 8.5 | 2.544 | Thieme |
| 45 | Translational PsychiatryOpen Access | 8.5 | 7.989 | Springer Nature |
| 46 | Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review | 8.4 | 7.410 | Springer Nature |
| 47 | Psychological Assessment | 8.3 | 6.083 | APA |
| 48 | Journal of Clinical Psychiatry | 8.2 | 5.906 | Physicians Postgraduate Press, Inc. |
| 49 | Acta Neuropsychiatrica | 8.1 | 4.513 | Cambridge University Press |
| 50 | Psychoneuroendocrinology | 8.0 | 4.693 | Elsevier |