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The British Journal of Psychiatry is a peer-reviewed journal published by Cambridge University Press, covering Mental Health and Psychiatry, Schizophrenia research and treatment, Psychiatric care and mental health services.

PublisherCambridge University Press
Reference styleNumbered
Numbered — [1], [2] in the text
[1] A. Smith, B. Jones, and C. Lee, A representative article title, The British Journal of Psychiatry 12 (2023) 45–58.

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Publishes research inMental Health and Psychiatry Schizophrenia research and treatment Psychiatric care and mental health services Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies Mental Health Treatment and Access
ISSN0007-1250
Citation impact (2-yr)2.43
h-index377
i10-index11,107
Total citations1,112,302
Top institutions publishing hereUniversity College London
Journal websitebjp.rcpsych.org
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Papers published in The British Journal of Psychiatry per year

402
2014
432
2015
373
2016
296
2017
315
2018
290
2019
241
2020
196
2021
216
2022
202
2023
223
2024
386
2025

Citation impact of The British Journal of Psychiatry by publication year

13.9K
2014
15.8K
2015
16.2K
2016
9K
2017
10.6K
2018
8.6K
2019
6K
2020
3.2K
2021
2.3K
2022
1.5K
2023
969
2024
854
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in The British Journal of Psychiatry

Detection of Postnatal Depression

J. L. Cox, Joan Holden, R. Sagovsky · 1 Jun 1987

The development of a 10-item self-report scale (EPDS) to screen for Postnatal Depression in the community is described. After extensive pilot interviews a validation study was carried out on 84 mothers using the Research Diagnostic Criteria for depressive illness obtained from Goldberg's Standardised Psychiatric Interview. The EPDS was found to have satisfactory sensitivity and specificity,…

14,006 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
A New Depression Scale Designed to be Sensitive to Change

Stuart Montgomery, Marie Åsberg · 1 Apr 1979

The construction of a depression rating scale designed to be particularly sensitive to treatment effects is described. Ratings of 54 English and 52 Swedish patients on a 65 item comprehensive psychopathology scale were used to identify the 17 most commonly occurring symptoms in primary depressive illness in the combined sample. Ratings on these 17 items…

13,975 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
A Rating Scale for Mania: Reliability, Validity and Sensitivity

Robert C. Young, John T. Biggs, Vincent E. Ziegler et al. · 1 Nov 1978

An eleven item clinician-administered Mania Rating Scale (MRS) is introduced, and its reliability, validity and sensitivity are examined. There was a high correlation between the scores of two independent clinicians on both the total score (0.93) and the individual item scores (0.66 to 0.92). The MRS score correlated highly with an independent global rating, and…

8,775 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
A New Clinical Scale for the Staging of Dementia

Charles P. Hughes, Leonard van den Berg, Warren L. Danziger et al. · 1 Jun 1982

Accurate clinical staging of dementia in older subjects has not previously been achieved despite the use of such methods as psychometric testing, behavioural rating, and various combinations of simpler psychometric and behavioural evaluations. The Clinical Dementia Rating (CRD), a global rating device, was developed for a prospective study of mild senile dementia--Alzheimer type (SDAT). Reliability,…

7,068 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy:

Irvin D. Yalom, Eric Crouch · 1 Aug 1990

This book first appeared in 1970 and has gone into two further editions, one in 1975 and this one in 1985. Yalom is also the author of Existential Psychotherapy (1980), In-patient Group Psychotherapy (1983), the co-author with Lieberman of Encounter Groups: First Facts (1973) and with Elkin of Every Day Gets a Little Closer: A…

4,154 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

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