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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 >>

2025 Published Issues
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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: 58/279 in psychiatry; JIF Quartile: Q1; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q2.

ISSN
2220-3206 (online)
Editorial
Minireviews
Case Control Study
Yan-Ning Song, Shuang Xia, Zhi Sun, Yong-Chao Chen, Lu Jiao, Wen-Hua Wan, Hong-Wei Zhang, Xiao Guo, Hua Guo, Shou-Feng Jia, Xiao-Xin Li, Shi-Xian Cao, Li-Bin Fu, Meng-Meng Liu, Tian Zhou, Lv-Feng Zhang, Qing-Quan Jia 
World J Psychiatry 15(1):101186. Published online Jan 19, 2025. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v15.i1.101186
Retrospective Study
Ya-Xin Xu, Xiao-Xuan Niu, Wen-Chang Jia, Jing Wen, Xue-Lin Cheng, Yan Han, Ming-Hui Peng, Jing Zhou, Yao Liu, Sun-Fang Jiang, Xiao-Pan Li 
World J Psychiatry 15(1):101750. Published online Jan 19, 2025. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v15.i1.101750
Observational Study
Scientometrics
Bo-Fan Chen, Li Liu, Fang-Zhen Lin, Hai-Min Zeng, Hai-Qiang Huang, Chun-Fang Zhang, Cong-Cong Liu, Xiang Chen, Jie Peng, Yun-Fa Wang, Zhi-Lin Wang, Bin Chen, De-Le Liu, Yun Liu, Zheng-Zheng Li, Xin-Xing Zeng 
World J Psychiatry 15(1):100685. Published online Jan 19, 2025. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v15.i1.100685
Chao Yang, Kun Zhang, Qian Wang, Shuai Wang, Huan Li, Kai Zhang 
World J Psychiatry 15(1):100730. Published online Jan 19, 2025. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v15.i1.100730
Letter to the Editor