General Psychiatry

General Psychiatry
DisciplinePsychiatry
LanguageEnglish
Edited byZhao Min and Xu Yifeng
Publication details
Former name
Shanghai Archives of Psychiatry (Chinese name: 上海精神医学)
History1959–present
Publisher
FrequencyBimonthly
Yes
LicenseCreative Commons Attribution License
9.9 (2025)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Gen. Psychiatry
Indexing
ISSN2096-5923 (print)
2517-729X (web)
OCLC no.1340603097
Links

General Psychiatry is a bimonthly, peer-reviewed, open-access medical journal covering psychiatry and mental health.[1][2] It is published by the Shanghai Mental Health Center in partnership with Wiley. Professor Min Zhao, President of the Shanghai Mental Health Center, and Professor Yifeng Xu, Director of the Brain Health Institute of the National Center for Mental Disorders, serve as Co-Editors-in-Chief, with Professor Jinghong Chen serving as Executive Editor.

Scope

The journal publishes original research, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and case reports. Its scope includes biological psychiatry, psychopharmacology, psychiatric genetics, psychotherapy, neuroimaging, digital psychiatry, computational psychiatry, and artificial intelligence in mental health, and related fields.[1]

Overview and history

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).[3][4] 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.[3]

In August 2018, it changed its name to General Psychiatry and began publication with the BMJ Publishing Group.[5][6] It was selected as an echelon journal in both Phase I (2019–2023) and Phase II (2024–2028) of Excellence Action Plan for China’s Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journals.[7][8] In late 2025, its publishing work was moved from BMJ to Wiley[9]. 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).[10]

In 2026 XinRui Journal Rating, the journal was placed in Q1 in both Medicine and Psychiatry.[11] It has also been recognized as one of The Excellent International Impact Academic Journals of China.[12]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index,[13] Scopus, PubMed[14], Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)[15], PsycInfo[16], and the Chinese Science Citation Database (CSCD)[17]. Its 2025 CiteScore is 12.4, ranking 23rd in Psychiatry and Mental Health of Medicine. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2025 impact factor of 9.9, ranking it in 7th place out of 293 journals in the category "Psychiatry".[18]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Homepage". General Psychiatry. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  2. ↑ "上海市精神卫生中心". www.smhc.org.cn. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  3. 1 2 "About Us - Shanghai Carchives of Psychiatry". shanghaiarchivesofpsychiatry.org. 2024-02-11. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  4. ↑ Wu, Chunyan; Wang, Liwei (2010-02-01). "Psychiatric Journals in China". American Journal of Psychiatry. 167 (2): 133. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2009.167.2.133. PMID 26650323. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  5. ↑ Xu, Yifeng (2018-09-14). "New journey, new mission: bolstering international communication about mental health". General Psychiatry. 31 (1) e100002. doi:10.1136/gpsych-2018-100002. PMC 6211272. PMID 30582118.
  6. ↑ "BMJ to publish international psychiatry journal". InPublishing. 2018-09-19. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  7. ↑ "中国科技期刊卓越行动计划二期入选项目公布" [Announcement of the Selected Projects for Phase II of the China Science and Technology Journal Excellence Action Plan]. China Association for Science and Technology (in Chinese). Retrieved 2026-08-26.
  8. ↑ "关于对中国科技期刊卓越行动计划拟入选项目进行公示的通知" [Notice on the Public Announcement of the Proposed Projects for Selection under the China Science and Technology Journal Excellence Action Plan]. China Association for Science and Technology (in Chinese). Retrieved 2026-08-26.
  9. ↑ "2026 Wiley Journal Changes". Wiley Online Library. Retrieved 2026-03-04.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ↑ "About". General Psychiatry. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  11. ↑ "Home". XinRui Journal Ranking. Retrieved 2026-08-26.
  12. ↑ 中国学术期刊国际引证年报(自然科学与工程技术) [Annual Report for International Citation of Chinese Academic Journals (Natural Science)] (in Chinese). China National Knowledge Infrastructure and Tsinghua University Library (published 2025-12-11). 2025.
  13. ↑ "Web of Science Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Clarivate. Retrieved 2024-07-27.
  14. ↑ "PubMed". PubMed. Retrieved 2026-03-04.
  15. ↑ "General Psychiatry – DOAJ". doaj.org. Retrieved 2024-07-11.
  16. ↑ "American Psychological Association PsychNet".
  17. ↑ "ScienceChina 中国科学文献服务系统". sciencechina.cn. Retrieved 2026-08-26.
  18. ↑ "General Psychiatry". 2024 Journal Citation Reports (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2025 – via Web of Science.
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