General Psychiatry
Academic journal
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General Psychiatry is a bimonthly peer-reviewed open-access medical journal covering mental health topics relevant to psychiatrists and mental health professionals.[1][2]
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| Discipline | Psychiatry |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Yifeng Xu ( Chinese name: 徐一峰); Jinghong Chen (Chinese name: 陈京红) |
| Publication details | |
Former name | Shanghai Archives of Psychiatry (Chinese name: 上海精神医学) |
| History | 1959–present |
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| Frequency | Bimonthly |
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| License | Creative Commons Attribution License |
| 7.0 (2024) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Gen. Psychiatry |
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| ISSN | 2096-5923 (print) 2517-729X (web) |
| OCLC no. | 1340603097 |
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Overview and history
The journal was established by Yifeng Xu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine) and co-edited by the executive editor-in-chief Jinghong Chen (Shanghai Mental Health Center).[3] As the first psychiatric journal in China, it was established in 1959 as the Shanghai Archives of Psychiatry (Chinese name: 上海精神医学).[4][5] It was initially published at irregular intervals, which then became a quarterly publication in 1989 and a bimonthly one in 2003. In 2012, it transitioned to an all-English publication.[4] In August 2018, it changed its name to General Psychiatry published by the BMJ Publishing Group.[6][7] In late 2025, its publishing work was taken over by Wiley[8]. The journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics and is affiliated with the Shanghai Mental Health Center (Chinese name: 上海精神卫生中心).[9]
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index,[10] Scopus, Pubmed[11], and the Directory of Open Access Journals.[12] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2024 impact factor of 7.0—ranking it in16th place out of 288 journals in the category "Psychiatry".[13]