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Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry

Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications · India

ISSN0971-9962eISSN2454-8316

SJR Q4✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals. If this journal has one, it appears on the journal’s page ↗

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Bottom 25%

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.216

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.216

Total Worksi

833

Total Citationsi

3,334

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.45

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Internal medicine: Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry: Neurology. Diseases of the nervous system: Psychiatry. Topics: psychiatry, social psychiatry

General Information

Country / RegionIndia

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published—

Annual Volume~ 74 articles / year

StatusActive

Total Publications833

Publisher OrgMedknow

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Submission Info

Publishing ModelGold Open Access

Peer ReviewDouble-blind

OA LicenseCC BY-NC-SA

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

📦 Long-term Preservation

LOCKSSPorticoCLOCKSS

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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10/11 · 91%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

0971-9962 / 2454-8316

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Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus, DOAJ

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Peer review process documented?

Double-blind

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

LOCKSS, Portico, CLOCKSS

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Plagiarism detection in place?

Yes

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

282

2019

111

520

2020

112

496

2021

2022

109

152

2023

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Psychiatry and Mental HealthQ4

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Psychiatry and Mental Health

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Mental Health Treatment and AccessCOVID-19 and Mental HealthChild and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentFamily Caregiving in Mental IllnessSchizophrenia research and treatment

Frequently asked questions about Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry

Is Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry: it is indexed in Scopus, DOAJ, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry?

Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.216.

Is Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry is indexed in Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry?