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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
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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 2024 edition of Journal Citation Reports® cites the 2023 journal impact factor (JIF) for WJP as 3.9; JIF without journal self cites: 3.8; 5-year JIF: 3.7; JIF Rank: 58/276 in psychiatry; JIF Quartile: Q1; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q2.

ISSN
2220-3206 (online)
Editorial
Retrospective Cohort Study
Retrospective Study
Observational Study
Mi Wang, Wen-Tao Chen, Hao-Ting Wang, Bang-Shan Liu, Yu-Meng Ju, Qiang-Li Dong, Xiao-Wen Lu, Jin-Rong Sun, Liang Zhang, Hua Guo, Fu-Tao Zhao, Wei-Hui Li, Li Zhang, Ze-Xuan Li, Mei Liao, Yan Zhang, Jin Liu, Ling-Jiang Li 
World J Psychiatry 14(10):1474-1483. Published online Oct 19, 2024. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v14.i10.1474
Wen-Liang Wang, Ji-Kang Liu, Yi-Fan Sun, Xiao-Hong Liu, Yu-Hang Ma, Xue-Zheng Gao, Li-Min Chen, Zhen-He Zhou, Hong-Liang Zhou 
World J Psychiatry 14(10):1484-1494. Published online Oct 19, 2024. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v14.i10.1484
Man-In Ho, Zhe-Hao Wu, Yu-Ying Chen, Weng-Io Leong, Jue Wang, Hua Zhou, Zi-Tuo Wu, Ying-Qi Mao, Jia-An Du, Yi Zheng, Yi Yu, Paulo Do Lago Comandante, Li-Li Yu, Qi-Biao Wu 
World J Psychiatry 14(10):1495-1505. Published online Oct 19, 2024. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v14.i10.1495
Randomized Clinical Trial
Peter Phiri, Laura Pemberton, Yang Liu, Xiaojie Yang, Joe Salmon, Isabel Boulter, Sana Sajid, Jackie Clarke, Andy McMillan, Jian Qing Shi, Gayathri Delanerolle 
World J Psychiatry 14(10):1521-1537. Published online Oct 19, 2024. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v14.i10.1521
Basic Study
Meta-Analysis
Zhou-Hong Zhan, Jia-Liang Wang, Li-Hong Wang, Nan-Nan Shen, Xin-Wen Liu, Yan-Na Yu, Fu-Rong Liu 
World J Psychiatry 14(10):1583-1591. Published online Oct 19, 2024. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v14.i10.1583
Scientometrics
Letter to the Editor