Biological Psychiatry (journal)

This article is about the journal Biological Psychiatry. For the field of study, see Biological psychiatry.

Biological Psychiatry is a biweekly, peer-reviewed, scientific journal of psychiatric neuroscience and therapeutics, published by Elsevier since 1985 on behalf of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, of which it is the official journal. The journal covers a broad range of topics related to the pathophysiology and treatment of major neuropsychiatric disorders. A yearly supplement is published which contains the abstracts from the annual meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry.

Biological Psychiatry

Discipline	Biological psychiatry
Language	English
Edited by	John H. Krystal
Publication details
Former name	Recent Advances in Biological Psychiatry
History	1959–present
Publisher	Elsevier on behalf of the Society of Biological Psychiatry
Frequency	Biweekly
Impact factor	13.382 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Biol. Psychiatry
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	BIPCBF
ISSN	0006-3223 (print) 1873-2402 (web)
LCCN	78009779
OCLC no.	424038458
Links
Journal homepage Online access Journal page at publisher's website

History

The journal was established in 1959 as Recent Advances in Biological Psychiatry.^[1] It obtained its current name in 1969 with volume numbering restarting at 1^[2] and is the official journal of the Society of Biological Psychiatry. The founding editor-in-chief was Joseph Wortis, who edited the journal until 1992.^[3][4] The current editor is John H. Krystal (Yale University School of Medicine). In 2016, a spin-off journal was established: Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging (ISSN 2451-9022). In 2021, a second spin-off journal was established: Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science (ISSN 2667-1743).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• BIOSIS Previews
• Chemical Abstracts
• Current Contents/Life Sciences
• EMBASE
• Elsevier BIOBASE
• MEDLINE/PubMed
• Mental Health Abstracts
• PsycINFO/Psychological Abstracts
• Referativny Zhurnal
• Science Citation Index
• Scopus

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 12.095.^[5]

Editors-in-chief

The following persons have been editor-in-chief of the journal:

• Joseph Wortis, 1959–1992
• Wagner H. Bridger, 1992–1997
• Richard C. Josiassen, 1997
• Dennis S. Charney, 1998–2006
• John H. Krystal, 2006–present

See also

• List of psychiatry journals