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Psychiatric Clinics of North America

W.B. Saunders · United States · Est. 1978

ISSN1558-3147

SJR Q1✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SSCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

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

SJR Scorei

1.206

H-Indexi

151

SNIPi

0.863

Total Worksi

3,215

Total Citationsi

119,060

2yr Mean Citednessi

2.18

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Psychiatric Clinics of North America updates readers on the latest trends in patient management and newest advances in psychiatry. Each issue focuses on a single topic in psychiatry, reviewing new diagnostic and management techniques for a single clinical problem.

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1978

Annual Volume~ 83 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications3,215

Publisher OrgElsevier BV

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

W.B. Saunders

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1558-3147

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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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?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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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

1.7k

2019

2020

772

2021

848

2022

582

2023

534

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 HealthQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Psychiatry

Scopus Categories

Psychiatry and Mental Health

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Schizophrenia research and treatmentChild and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentMental Health and PsychiatryObsessive-Compulsive Spectrum DisordersTreatment of Major DepressionPsychotherapy Techniques and ApplicationsPsychosomatic Disorders and Their TreatmentsBipolar Disorder and TreatmentAnxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive ProcessesEating Disorders and Behaviors

Frequently asked questions about Psychiatric Clinics of North America

Is Psychiatric Clinics of North America a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Psychiatric Clinics of North America: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, 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 Psychiatric Clinics of North America?

Psychiatric Clinics of North America is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 2.18.

Is Psychiatric Clinics of North America indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Psychiatric Clinics of North America is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.