Biological Psychiatry (journal)
Academic journal
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Biological Psychiatry is a biweekly, peer-reviewed, scientific journal of psychiatric neuroscience and therapeutics, published by Elsevier since 1985 on behalf of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, of which it is the official journal. The journal covers a broad range of topics related to the pathophysiology and treatment of major neuropsychiatric disorders. A yearly supplement is published which contains the abstracts from the annual meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry.
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| Discipline | Biological psychiatry |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | John H. Krystal |
| Publication details | |
Former name | Recent Advances in Biological Psychiatry |
| History | 1959–present |
| Publisher | Elsevier on behalf of the Society of Biological Psychiatry |
| Frequency | Biweekly |
| 13.382 (2020) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Biol. Psychiatry |
| Indexing | |
| CODEN | BIPCBF |
| ISSN | 0006-3223 (print) 1873-2402 (web) |
| LCCN | 78009779 |
| OCLC no. | 424038458 |
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History
The journal was established in 1959 as Recent Advances in Biological Psychiatry.[1] It obtained its current name in 1969 with volume numbering restarting at 1[2] and is the official journal of the Society of Biological Psychiatry. The founding editor-in-chief was Joseph Wortis, who edited the journal until 1992.[3][4] The current editor is John H. Krystal (Yale University School of Medicine). In 2016, a spin-off journal was established: Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging (ISSN 2451-9022). In 2021, a second spin-off journal was established: Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science (ISSN 2667-1743).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
- BIOSIS Previews
- Chemical Abstracts
- Current Contents/Life Sciences
- EMBASE
- Elsevier BIOBASE
- MEDLINE/PubMed
- Mental Health Abstracts
- PsycINFO/Psychological Abstracts
- Referativny Zhurnal
- Science Citation Index
- Scopus
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 12.095.[5]
Editors-in-chief
The following persons have been editor-in-chief of the journal:
- Joseph Wortis, 1959–1992
- Wagner H. Bridger, 1992–1997
- Richard C. Josiassen, 1997
- Dennis S. Charney, 1998–2006
- John H. Krystal, 2006–present