Indian Journal of Psychiatry

*Indian Journal of Psychiatry*
Discipline	Psychiatry
Language	English
Edited by	Prof. Om Prakash Singh
Publication details
Former name(s)	Indian Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry
History	1949-present
Publisher	Medknow Publications on behalf of the Indian Psychiatric Society (India)
Frequency	Quarterly
Open access	Yes
Impact factor	0.81 (2016)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Indian J. Psychiatry
Indexing;
ISSN	0019-5545;
OCLC no.	746945928
Links
	Journal homepage; Online access; Online archive;

The Indian Journal of Psychiatry is a quarterly peer-reviewed open access medical journal. It is published by Medknow Publications on behalf of the Indian Psychiatric Society. It covers research in all fields of psychiatry. Each year, the April issue is accompanied by a supplement that contains the abstracts of presentations at the annual meeting of the society.

History[]

The journal was established in 1949 as the Indian Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry and obtained its present name in 1958. The editor-in-chief is T. S. Sathyanarayana Rao (Jagadguru Sri Shivarathreeshwara University). The following persons have been editors-in-chief:

N. N. De (1949–1951)
L. P. Verma (1951–1958)
A. N. Bardhan (1958–1960)
M. R. Vachha (1961–1967)
A. Venkoba Rao (1968–1976)
B. B. Sethi (1977–1984)
S. M. Channabasavanna (1985–1988)
A. K. Agarwal (1989–1992)
K. Kuruvilla (1993–1996)
J. K. Trivedi (1997–2002)
U. Goswami (2003)
T. S. S. Rao (2004)
N. G. Desai (2005–2006)
T. S. S. Rao (2007-2018)
G. Swaminath (2007)

Abstracting and indexing[]

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus,^[1] EBSCO databases, Expanded Academic ASAP, , and InfoTrac.

Retraction[]

In 2016, the journal retracted a 2013 supplementary paper because it plagiarized a Wikipedia article.^[2]^[3]

References[]

^ "Content overview". Scopus. Elsevier. Retrieved 2015-04-01.
^ "Wikipedia page reincarnated as paper: Authors plagiarized paper on reincarnation". Retraction Watch. Retrieved 2016-02-02.
^ "Article retracted after 'overlapping text' from Wikipedia found". The Hindu. 6 February 2016. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2016-02-12.

External links[]

Official website

[Scopus-1] "Content overview". Scopus. Elsevier. Retrieved 2015-04-01.

[2] "Wikipedia page reincarnated as paper: Authors plagiarized paper on reincarnation". Retraction Watch. Retrieved 2016-02-02.

[3] "Article retracted after 'overlapping text' from Wikipedia found". The Hindu. 6 February 2016. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2016-02-12.

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Non-governmental organization	AASRA The Banyan Lifeline Foundation Schizophrenia Research Foundation Vandrevala Foundation The Live Love Laugh Foundation
Mental Health Professional Associations	Indian Psychiatric Society Indian Association of Private Psychiatry Indian Association of Clinical Psychology National Academy of Psychology
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