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Top 10 Psychiatry Journals by Impact Factor

Compare leading Psychiatry journals ranked by Journal Impact Factor. Each journal summary highlights key details authors often need when choosing where to submit, including publisher, impact factor, open access status, identifiers, and available submission profile information.

Rankings are based on the latest Journal Impact Factor data currently available in our journal database.

World Psychiatry

WILEY

JIF 65.8

Closed

Identifiers

ISSN 1723-8617

eISSN 2051-5545

Psychiatry

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Lancet Psychiatry

Elsevier BV

JIF 24.8

Hybrid

The Lancet Psychiatry is a journal focused on clinical psychiatry and mental health. It publishes clinical research, expert reviews, comment, and opinion spanning psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, psychosocial approaches, psychiatric disorders across the life...

Identifiers

ISSN 2215-0374

Publication Cost

USD 8,810 APC for open access in The Lancet Psychiatry as of Jan 1, 2026.

Publishing Timeline

3 days submission to first decision; 36 days submission to decision after review; 33 days submission to acceptance; 52 days acceptance to online publication

Psychiatry

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Psychotherapy And Psychosomatics

Karger Publishers

JIF 17.4

Closed

Identifiers

ISSN 0033-3190

eISSN 1423-0348

Psychiatry

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Jama Psychiatry

American Medical Association

JIF 17.1

Closed

Identifiers

ISSN 2168-622X

eISSN 2168-6238

Psychiatry

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American Journal Of Psychiatry

American Psychiatric Association

JIF 14.7

Closed

Identifiers

ISSN 0002-953X

eISSN 1535-7228

Psychiatry

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Evidence-Based Mental Health

BMJ

JIF 11.4

Hybrid

BMJ Mental Health is a peer reviewed, open access journal from BMJ covering clinically relevant research in mental health and psychiatry. It publishes evidence-based, innovative research, systematic reviews, and methodological papers, facilitates multidiscipli...

Identifiers

ISSN 1362-0347

eISSN 1468-960X

Publication Cost

Full APC waiver available for eligible authors in low-income countries; partial discounts of up to 50% may be considered case by case.

Publishing Timeline

Time to first decision without review: 1 day median; time to first decision with review: 35 days median; time from acceptance to publication: 23 days median.

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Molecular Psychiatry

Springer Nature

JIF 10.1

Hybrid

Molecular Psychiatry is a journal publishing research articles, correspondence, collections, and systematic reviews in psychiatry and related molecular and neurobiological fields.

Identifiers

ISSN 1359-4184

eISSN 1476-5578

Publication Cost

APC: £3790.00 / $5690.00 / €4590.00, subject to VAT or local taxes where applicable.

Publishing Timeline

Submission to first editorial decision (median): 32 days; submission to acceptance (median): 226 days.

Neurosciences

Psychiatry

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Journal Of The American Academy Of Child And Adolescent Psychiatry

Elsevier BV

JIF 9.5

Hybrid

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry is the flagship journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and focuses exclusively on psychiatric research and treatment of children and adolescents. It is published twelv...

Identifiers

ISSN 0890-8567

eISSN 1527-5418

Publication Cost

No fee for subscription publication. Open access is available for a fee after acceptance. Color printing costs $650 for the first figure and $100 for each additional figure.

Publishing Timeline

9 days from submission to first decision.

Pediatrics

Psychiatry

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Biological Psychiatry

Elsevier BV

JIF 9

Hybrid

Biological Psychiatry is a peer-reviewed, rapid-publication international journal founded in 1969 and published as an official journal of the Society of Biological Psychiatry. It focuses on original basic, translational, and clinical mechanistic research that...

Identifiers

ISSN 0006-3223

eISSN 1873-2402

Publication Cost

Open access APC: USD 5489 excluding taxes for all articles; subscription publishing: no open access publication fee.

Publishing Timeline

7 days submission to first decision; 40 days submission to decision after review; 142 days submission to acceptance; 9 days acceptance to online publication

Neurosciences

Psychiatry

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Nature Mental Health

SPRINGERNATURE

JIF 8.7

Hybrid

Nature Mental Health is a monthly online-only journal publishing original, peer-reviewed research from the breadth of sciences exploring mental health and mental health disorders.

Identifiers

eISSN 2731-6076

Publication Cost

Article Processing Charge (APC) applies for open access articles.

Publishing Timeline

Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 20; submission to acceptance (median days): 232.

Psychiatry

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