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Welcome to the World Journal of Psychiatry

World Journal of Psychiatry (WJP, World J Psychiatry) is a high-quality, open-access academic journal that employs a single-blind peer-review process. The journal focuses on publishing clinical, basic, and translational research achievements that are innovative, novel, and practical in the fields of psychiatry. The types of articles published in WJP include Editorial, Opinion Review, Frontier, Review, Minireview, Clinical Research, Basic Study, Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, Evidence-based Medicine, Field of Vision, Clinical Guidelines, Letter to the Editor, and Case Report. All submissions must comply with academic norms and ethical requirements. WJP is edited and published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. Submit here >>

2025 Published Issues
7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Editors-in-Chief
  • Paolo Girardi, MD, Professor, (E-mail: paolo.girardi@uniroma1.it) Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, and Health Studies, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome 00100, Italy
  • Marianna Mazza, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, (E-mail: marianna.mazza@policlinicogemelli.it) Department of Neurosciences, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome 00168, Italy
Indexing/Abstracting
The WJP is now abstracted and indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE, also known as SciSearch®), Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, PubMed, PubMed Central, Reference Citation Analysis, China Science and Technology Journal Database, and Superstar Journals Database.
Journal Metrics

The 2025 edition of Journal Citation Reports® cites the 2024 journal impact factor (JIF) for WJP as 3.4; JIF without journal self cites: 3.2; 5-year JIF: 4.0; JIF Rank: 79/288 in psychiatry; JIF Quartile: Q2; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q2.

ISSN
2220-3206 (online)
Latest Manuscript Statistics
Received (394), Peer Review Time (5 days/Mean), Time to First Decision (33 days/Mean), Second Decision Time (27 days/Mean), Accepted (29.2%/Mean), Production Time (41 days/Mean), Time to Publication (130 days/Mean), and Rejected (29.7%/Mean).
Editorial
Review
Sariye Aybüke Yıldırım, Irmak Dal, Selin Özkan-Kotiloğlu, Bora Baskak, Dilek Kaya-Akyüzlü 
World J Psychiatry 15(7):107597. Published online Jul 19, 2025. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v15.i7.107597
Minireviews
Retrospective Study
Clinical Trials Study
Observational Study
Zi-Qi Wang, Si-Yu Hong, Zi-Xuan Jia, Sha-Sha Ma, Qing-Lu Wang, Wen-Jun Wang 
World J Psychiatry 15(7):106613. Published online Jul 19, 2025. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v15.i7.106613
Basic Study
Han-Jie Guo, Xiao-Qing Ma, Yan-Ting Li, Zhao-Han Zhou, Wei Tao, Yu-Hao Jiang, Xiao-Long Li, Xi-Liang Zhang 
World J Psychiatry 15(7):104921. Published online Jul 19, 2025. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v15.i7.104921
Le Jiang, Rui-Xue Ma, Er-Shu He, Xiao-Ye Zheng, Xin Peng, Wen-Hao Ma, Ying Li, Han-Wei li, Xue-Yan Zhang, Jie-Yu Ji, Yan-Jiao Li, Shang-Lan Qu, Li-Juan Li, Zhi-Ting Gong 
World J Psychiatry 15(7):107524. Published online Jul 19, 2025. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v15.i7.107524
Meta-Analysis
Shan-Sheng Hou, Jun Liu, Peng-Fei Qiao, Dong-Ge Yang, Liang-Fei Huang, Fei Liu, Yue Liu, Ting-Ting Jia, Hong-Liang Wang 
World J Psychiatry 15(7):104812. Published online Jul 19, 2025. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v15.i7.104812
Letter to the Editor