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Welcome to the World Journal of Psychiatry

World Journal of Psychiatry (WJPWorld J Psychiatry) is a high-quality, online, open-access, single-blind peer-reviewed journal published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. WJP accepts both solicited and unsolicited manuscripts. Articles published in WJP are high-quality, clinical and basic, influential research articles by established academic authors as well as new researchers. The paramount objective of WJP is to showcase and promote distinguished research in the field of psychiatry, to help advance development of this field. 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. Submit here >>

2024 Published Issues
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Editors-in-Chief
  • Ting-Shao Zhu, PhD, Professor, (E-mail: tszhu@psych.ac.cn) Division of Social and Engineering Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
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 2023 Edition of Journal Citation Reports® cites the 2022 impact factor (IF) for WJP as 3.1; IF without journal self cites: 2.9; 5-year IF: 4.2; Journal Citation Indicator: 0.52; Ranking: 91 among 155 journals in psychiatry; and Quartile category: Q3.

ISSN
2220-3206 (online)
Editorial
Edison Iglesias de Oliveira Vidal, Luiz Fernando Alvarenga Ribeiro, Marco Antonio de Carvalho-Filho, Fernanda Bono Fukushima 
World J Psychiatry 14(4):489-493. Published online Apr 19, 2024. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v14.i4.489
Review
Case Control Study
Victoria Metelkina-Fernandez, Louise-Emilie Dumas, Clair Vandersteen, David Chirio, Auriane Gros, Arnaud Fernandez, Florence Askenazy, Valeria Manera 
World J Psychiatry 14(4):507-512. Published online Apr 19, 2024. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v14.i4.507
Retrospective Cohort Study
Retrospective Study
Observational Study
Basic Study
Systematic Reviews
Ana V Pejčić, Srdjan M Stefanović, Miloš N Milosavljević, Vladimir S Janjić, Marko M Folić, Nevena D Folić, Jovana Z Milosavljević 
World J Psychiatry 14(4):582-599. Published online Apr 19, 2024. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v14.i4.582