BJPsych Open
Last updated ISSN 2056-4724
BJPsych Open is published by Cambridge University Press in medicine. It is open access. The article processing charge is $3,550.
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What it publishes
Recent work in BJPsych Open concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
Key facts
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2056-4724 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $3,550 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 5,768 |
| Publishing since | 1990 |
| Journal website | www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-open |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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