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Welcome to the World Journal of Psychiatry

World Journal of Psychiatry (WJP, World J Psychiatry) is a high-quality, open-access academic journal that employs a single-blind peer-review process. The journal focuses on publishing innovative, novel, and practical clinical, basic, and translational research achievements in the fields of psychiatry. 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. All submissions must comply with academic norms and ethical requirements. The journal is edited and published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. Submit here >>

2025 Published Issues
6 5 4 3 2 1
Editors-in-Chief
  • Paolo Girardi, MD, Professor, (E-mail: paolo.girardi@uniroma1.it) Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, and Health Studies, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome 00100, Italy
  • Marianna Mazza, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, (E-mail: marianna.mazza@policlinicogemelli.it) Department of Neurosciences, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome 00168, Italy
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)
Latest Manuscript Statistics
Received (308), Peer Review Time (5 days/Mean), Time to First Decision (37 days/Mean), Second Decision Time (25 days/Mean), Accepted (22.7%/Mean), Production Time (38 days/Mean), Time to Publication (130 days/Mean), and Rejected (29.5%/Mean).
Editorial
Review
Minireviews
Gabor S Ungvari, Stanley N Caroff, Levente Csihi, Gábor Gazdag 
World J Psychiatry 15(6):104247. Published online Jun 19, 2025. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v15.i6.104247
Case Control Study
Retrospective Cohort Study
Retrospective Study
Observational Study
Kang-Ning Li, Shi-Xiong Tang, You-Fu Tao, Hai-Ruo He, Mo-Han Ma, Qian-Qian Zhang, Mei Huang, Wen-Tao Chen, Hui Liang, Ao-Qian Deng, Si-Rui Gao, Fan-Yu Meng, Yi-Lin Peng, Yu-Meng Ju, Wen-Wen Ou, Su Shu, Yan Zhang 
World J Psychiatry 15(6):105555. Published online Jun 19, 2025. doi: 10.5498/wjp.v15.i6.105555
Basic Study
Case Report
Letter to the Editor