BMC Psychiatry
Last updated ISSN 1471-244X
BMC Psychiatry is published by BioMed Central in medicine. It is open access. The article processing charge is $3,290.
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What it publishes
Recent work in BMC Psychiatry concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Treatment of Major Depression
- Tryptophan and brain disorders
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Key facts
| Publisher | BioMed Central |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1471-244X |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $3,290 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 10,091 |
| Publishing since | 1936 |
| Journal website | bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/ |
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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