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. 2012 Oct;11(3):207–208. doi: 10.1002/j.2051-5545.2012.tb00137.x

The new impact factor and immediacy index of World Psychiatry

MARIO LUCIANO 1
PMCID: PMC3449356  PMID: 23024687

The new impact factor of World Psychiatry, based on citations in the year 2011 to papers published in the journal in the years 2009 and 2010, is 6.233. The impact factor of the journal was 3.896 in 2009, 4.375 in 2010, and 5.562 last year.

The journal is in the top 10 of psychiatric journals and is preceded only by the American Journal of Psychiatry, the Archives of General Psychiatry and the British Journal of Psychiatry among journals of general psychiatry.

The papers that received the highest number of citations during the period considered in the calculation of the new impact factor are the Special Articles by De Hert et al 1 on the metabolic syndrome in people with schizophrenia, by A.C. McFarlane 2 on the long-term costs of traumatic stress, by D. Cicchetti 3 on resilience, and by A. Bateman and P. Fonagy 4 on mentalization based treatment for borderline personality disorder; the WPA guidance papers on steps, obstacles and mistakes to avoid in the implementation of community mental health care 5,6 and on how to combat stigmatization of psychiatry and psychiatrists 7; the Forums “Are psychiatrists an endangered species?” 8,9, “Pathophysiology of depression: do we have any solid evidence of interest to clinicians?” 10, and “Problematic Internet use – research evidence and open issues” 11; and the Research Reports by J. Angst et al 12 on hypomania from a transcultural perspective, by O. Gureje et al 13 on the Nigerian Survey on Mental Health and Wellbeing, and by V. Patel et al 14 on reducing the treatment gap for mental disorders.

The new immediacy index of the journal, based on citations in the year 2011 to papers published in the same year, is 2.556. It was 0.950 last year. The journal is in the top 3 of psychiatric journals according to this measure, preceded only by Molecular Psychiatry (3.676) and the American Journal of Psychiatry (3.583). The immediacy index of the Archives of General Psychiatry is 2.202. This immediacy index of the journal is mostly due to the high number of citations received by papers related to the development of the ICD-11 15,16,17,18,19 and by other WPA guidance papers, educational modules and recommendations 20,21,22,23,24,25.

The journal editorial staff is grateful to the authors, the referees and the WPA task forces who made these accomplishments possible.

References

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