Psychological Medicine
Last updated ISSN 0033-2917
Psychological Medicine is published by Cambridge University Press in medicine. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,550.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Psychological Medicine concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Treatment of Major Depression
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Legal case studies and regulations
Key facts
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0033-2917, 1469-8978 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,550 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 14,657 |
| Publishing since | 1970 |
| Journal website | journals.cambridge.org/psm |
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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