General Psychiatry

General Psychiatry is a bimonthly peer-reviewed open-access medical journal covering mental health topics relevant to psychiatrists and mental health professionals.

Overview and history

The journal was established by Yifeng Xu and co-edited by the executive editor-in-chief Jinghong Chen. As the first psychiatric journal in China, it was established in 1959 as the Shanghai Archives of Psychiatry. 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. In August 2018, it changed its name to General Psychiatry published by the BMJ Publishing Group. The journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics and is affiliated with the Shanghai Mental Health Center.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, Scopus, and the Directory of Open Access Journals. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 5.3—ranking it in 28th place out of 276 journals in the category "Psychiatry".