International Journal of Social Psychiatry


The International Journal of Social Psychiatry is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research in the field of social psychiatry. The journal's editor-in-chief is Dinesh Bhugra. It was established in 1955 and is currently published by Sage Publications.

Abstracting and indexing

The International Journal of Social Psychiatry is abstracted and indexed in: Academic Search Premier, Current Contents, Family Index Database, International Nursing Index, PubMed: MEDLINE, Scopus, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2017 impact factor is 1.613, ranking it 84th out of 142 journals in the category ‘Psychiatry’.