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Journal rankings · indicator year 2020

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Subfield ranking · 2020

Psychiatry and Mental health journal rankings 2020

140 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine

Psychiatry and Mental health has 140 ranked journals in 2020. The median journal has an OJR of 1.00, level with the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2019; Q1 starts at OJR 1.39. The top three are Alzheimer s & Dementia, Digital Biomarkers, and Alzheimer s & Dementia Translational Research & Clinical Interventions.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2020. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 score is computed on.

140
3% of Medicine
Median OJR

The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.

The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.

The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.

1.00+0.02 vs 2019
This subfieldAll 0.82World 1.00
Open-access journals

Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.

34%
All fields: 35%
Median listed APC

Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.

$3,190
Median positive listed APC: $3,190 among 79 journals. Another 1 lists $0; 60 have no known price. All fields: $3,300.

Subfields of Medicine (42)

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140 ranked journals

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Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

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Psychiatry and Mental health ranking, 2020

Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest.

OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields.

The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list.

OJR

Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field.

▲ or ▼ is the change from 2019. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 2017–2019 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal.

List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed.

The line is the journal’s OJR from 2011 to 2020.

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1Alzheimer s & DementiaWiley · United States
4.89Q117.03 3.43 up from 201946579%$4,200
2Digital BiomarkersOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland
4.10Q15.57 5.47 down from 201941100%$990
3.26Q18.83 1.12 up from 2019246100%$2,540
4Alzheimer s Research & TherapyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
2.90Q18.10 0.37 up from 2019335100%$4,290
5EpilepsiaWiley · Denmark
2.49Q16.22 1.03 down from 201986653%$4,360
6JMIR AgingOACanada
2.32Q13.81 1.97 up from 201969100%$1,605
2.27Q15.94 0.14 up from 2019231100%$2,540
8The Journal of Headache and PainOASpringer Nature · Italy
2.25Q18.40 2.13 up from 2019339100%$3,990
9Schizophrenia BulletinOxford University Press · United Kingdom
2.24Q16.86 0.16 up from 2019456100%$4,981
10CNS DrugsAdis, Springer Healthcare · New Zealand
2.20Q17.33 1.32 up from 201926049%$5,090
11The International Journal of NeuropsychopharmacologyOAUniversity of Oxford · United Kingdom
2.09Q17.68 2.61 up from 2019285100%$2,693
12Annals of General PsychiatryOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
2.07Q14.49 1.19 up from 2019118100%$3,090
13Neurology and TherapyOAAdis, Springer Healthcare · United Kingdom
2.05Q15.05 0.22 up from 2019103100%$7,400
14Current Pain and Headache ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States
1.93Q14.82 0.32 down from 20192227%$4,590
15Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive DisordersKarger Publishers · Switzerland
1.92Q13.80 2.92 down from 201919036%—
16Neurologic ClinicsElsevier BV · United States
1.90Q15.10 1.02 up from 201915314%$3,650
17Journal of Psychiatry and NeuroscienceOACanadian Medical Association · Canada
1.86Q15.20 1.07 up from 2019137100%—
18CephalalgiaSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
1.85Q16.25 0.84 up from 201942942%$3,000
19Acta Psychiatrica ScandinavicaWiley · United Kingdom
1.82Q15.37 0.23 up from 201939854%$4,880
20Therapeutic Advances in PsychopharmacologyOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
1.76Q16.40 1.78 up from 201971100%$2,650
21Sexual Medicine ReviewsElsevier BV · United States
1.71Q14.93 0.24 up from 201920021%$3,550
22The Journal of Clinical PsychiatryPhysicians Postgraduate Press, Inc. · United States
1.64Q13.67 0.08 down from 201955150%—
23SchizophreniaOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom
1.62Q15.93 1.11 up from 201985100%$3,590
24Journal of Alzheimer s DiseaseIOS Press · Netherlands
1.61Q14.73 0.01 down from 20192,14451%—
25Bipolar DisordersWiley · United Kingdom
1.57Q14.98 0.63 up from 201935632%$4,730
26Psychiatry JournalHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom
1.56Q12.98 1.38 up from 201955100%$800
27Expert Review of NeurotherapeuticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
1.54Q14.19 0.15 down from 201925239%—
1.53Q15.62 4.60 up from 2019590%—
29International Journal of Bipolar DisordersOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
1.53Q15.33 1.00 up from 201992100%$2,990
30Epilepsia OpenOAWiley · United States
1.51Q14.52 1.25 up from 2019190100%$3,120
31Journal of Sex & Marital TherapyRoutledge · United States
1.48Q12.92 0.42 up from 201919013%—
32European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical NeuroscienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
1.46Q14.61 1.44 up from 201930468%$2,990
33Behavioural NeurologyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom
1.43Q13.92 0.87 up from 2019169100%$1,790
34NeuropsychologyAmerican Psychological Association · United States
1.39Q13.63 0.56 up from 201924651%—
35Medical HumanitiesBMJ · United Kingdom
1.39Q12.09 0.32 up from 201916847%—
36Aging & Mental HealthRoutledge · United Kingdom
1.39Q22.88 0.61 up from 201967145%—
37American Journal of Geriatric PsychiatryElsevier BV · United States
1.39Q23.61 1.17 up from 201956735%$4,400
38The Journal of Sexual MedicineElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.37Q23.92 0.30 up from 201965911%$3,550
1.37Q24.75 1.08 up from 201957633%$4,150
40Expert Opinion on PharmacotherapyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
1.36Q23.95 0.68 up from 201959024%—
1.35Q23.56 0.66 up from 201955754%$4,600
42Current Alzheimer ResearchBentham Science Publishers · Netherlands
1.33Q23.83 0.11 down from 201925418%—
43PharmacopsychiatryThieme Medical Publishers (Germany) · Germany
1.33Q22.58 0.32 down from 20191247%—
1.32Q23.64 0.58 up from 201931474%$3,240
45The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer s DiseaseOASpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland
1.31Q23.73 1.13 up from 2019103100%$4,060
46Basic and Clinical AndrologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
1.30Q23.13 0.36 down from 201953100%$2,990
47Journal of Psychosomatic ResearchElsevier BV · United States
1.26Q23.23 0.01 down from 201957534%$3,760
48DementiaSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
1.23Q22.83 0.92 up from 201938854%$3,650
49Sexual MedicineOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.22Q23.28 0.33 up from 2019147100%$2,750
50Journal of the International Neuropsychological SocietyCambridge University Press · United Kingdom
1.21Q22.51 0.45 down from 201937261%$3,550

Citations made in 2020. Corpus-wide, 86.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

33 additional Psychiatry and Mental health journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2017–2019, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
140
Window papers (baseline)
68,365 +10.8% from indicator year 2017
Median OJR
1.0031 +4.6% from indicator year 2017
Rising journals (2025)
7

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2017–2019 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals657174828287899398100102107109119119123134142141142140145147144144139
Window papers (baseline)20,74823,51125,74227,92029,15931,33333,93437,51241,19244,74246,73949,13150,17752,43255,06458,02160,51061,71563,84165,47168,36572,11176,70878,26778,46579,078
Median OJR0.820.7720.790.7670.870.83290.890.9290.920.9960.951.031.0130.9641.00341.0090.9820.9590.9760.9851.00310.9070.9280.9110.83350.88

How to read these rankings

OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
Quartiles
Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
Impact factor (2-year)
Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
Rank ranges
Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.