Journal profile · Medicine-Psychiatry and Mental Health

Case Reports in Psychiatry

ISSN 2090-682X · eISSN 2090-6838 · John Wiley & Sons, Inc. · USA

Case Reports in Psychiatry: fully open access; APC about USD 870; median 173 days to acceptance (98 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 28% (journal website); 39 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.

Impact factor—No published value
CAS zone—Not in the CAS Journal Ranking
CiteScore quartileQ4Psychiatry and Mental Health · rank 465/580 · 19th percentile
Review time173 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · 98 articles, last 24 months · Crossref
APCUSD 870Fully open access
Acceptance28%From the journal's website
Articles per year392025 · OpenAlex count

Scope

Aims, scope and focus

Case Reports in Psychiatry is published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Schizophrenia research and treatment, Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies and Treatment of Major Depression, together about 39.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Psychiatry and Mental health. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Case Reports in Psychiatry is an open access journal that publishes case reports and case series in all areas of psychiatry.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Medicine-Psychiatry and Mental Health

Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate

  1. Schizophrenia research and treatmentMedicine19.8%
  2. Electroconvulsive Therapy StudiesMedicine11.9%
  3. Treatment of Major DepressionMedicine7.5%
  4. Bipolar Disorder and TreatmentMedicine6.5%
  5. Psychosomatic Disorders and Their TreatmentsMedicine5.7%
  6. Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum DisordersPsychology4.1%
  7. Mental Health and PsychiatryArts and Humanities4.1%
  8. Hallucinations in medical conditionsNeuroscience3.4%

Rankings & indexing

CAS ranking and database indexing

CAS Journal Ranking

CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered

Not covered by this edition.

CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered

Not covered by this edition.

CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered

Not covered by this edition.

CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)

SubjectQuartileRankPercentile
Psychiatry and Mental HealthQ4465/58019th

Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub

Database indexing

ScopusDOAJLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.

Metrics

Impact metrics and publication volume

Impact

CiteScore 2026-06
1.1LetPub ·
CiteScore (publisher)
1.1Publisher website ·
SJR 2026-06
0.23LetPub ·
SNIP 2026-06
0.32LetPub ·
h-index
23OpenAlex ·
i10-index
128OpenAlex ·
2-year mean citedness
0.66OpenAlex ·
Share of gold OA articles
0%LetPub ·

Articles by year OpenAlex count · 655 in total · the current year is incomplete

YearArticlesOpen accessCitations
20266767264
20253939374
20243434461
20234444461
20225555403
20216161415

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Review & acceptance

Review time and acceptance

Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to

173 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 119 days – 235 days

Acceptance to online
median 22 days (98 articles)
Submission to online
median 193 days
Sample
98 articles with submission and acceptance dates (96 in the window); the latest was accepted on

Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)
about 12 weeksLetPub ·
Acceptance rate (publisher)
28%Publisher website ·
Submission to first decision
42 daysPublisher website ·
Submission to publication (journal-reported)
about 12 weeksDOAJ ·
Peer review
Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

Fees & open access

APC and open-access policy

Fully open accessDOAJ

Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).

SourceAPCFee waiverLicenseObserved
DOAJUSD 870 / GBP 580 / EUR 750YesCC BY
OpenAlexUSD 790 / EUR 680 / GBP 580——
LetPubUSD 725Yes—

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Submission

Article types and submission policies (journal website)

What to prepare2 items from the author guidelines
Abstract
≤ 300 words
First submission
Free format: the journal's layout is not required
Publisher website · model-extracted, each line checked against the text
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
Authorship Title and authorship information

The following information should be included: Manuscript title Full author names Full institutional mailing addresses Email addresses Affiliations. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in institutional affiliations. Responsibility for affiliations ultimately rests with the author, although the publisher may request changes be made to countries listed in affiliations t…

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Conflicts of interest Conflicts of interest

Max three manuscripts under review at any point in time Model summary

Authors must declare all relevant interests that could be perceived as conflicting. Authors should explain why each interest may represent a conflict. If no conflicts exist, the authors should state this. Submitting authors are responsible for co-authors declaring their interests. Conflicts of interest (COIs, also known as 'competing interests') occur when issues outside research could be reasonab…

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Data availability Data availability

Data availability statement required with submission Model summary

Authors must include a data availability statement with their submission. When submitting a manuscript, submitting authors will be asked to select from several pre-written statements or use the text editor to tell us about data availability with regard to their submission. Review our Data Sharing Policy to understand which data availability statement is right for your submission.

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Publication ethics

Human experiments must comply with Declaration of Helsinki (1964) Model summary

For any experiments on humans, all work must be conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki (1964)

Source ↗Publisher website ·
License & copyright Copyright and permissions

Authors retain the copyright of their manuscripts, and all open access articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited. The use of general descriptive names, trade names, trademarks, and so forth in this publication, even if not speci…

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Open access

Copyright retained by authors; CC BY license Model summary

Authors retain the copyright of their manuscripts, and all open access articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Peer review Peer review

Single-anonymized peer review model for applicable article types Model summary

The journal follows a single-anonymized peer review model, for applicable article types. Information on the Peer Review model can be found here. Wiley's policy on the confidentiality of the review process is available here. All submitted articles are subject to assessment and peer review to ensure editorial appropriateness and technical correctness. Research published in the journal must be: Scien…

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Plagiarism

iThenticate CrossCheck used for plagiarism detection Model summary

This journal uses iThenticate’s CrossCheck software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts.

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Preprints Preprints

Preprint servers accepted; does not compromise novelty Model summary

The journal accepts articles previously published on preprint servers, and does not consider this to compromise the novelty of the results. Articles based on content previously made public only on a preprint server, institutional repository, or in a thesis will be considered. The preprint should be cited.

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Trial registration / reporting guidelines Reporting guidelines

Authors are strongly encouraged to use appropriate reporting guidelines when preparing and submitting manuscripts, to maximize transparency and reproducibility. Our editors and reviewers are also encouraged to use them in the review process. Completed checklists should be provided in the supplementary files on submission. We particularly encourage the use of: CONSORT for randomized controlled tria…

Source ↗Publisher website ·

Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Profile

Publication details and official links

Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Country or region
USA
Language
English
ISSN
2090-682X
Electronic ISSN
2090-6838
Official links

FAQ

Frequently asked questions about Case Reports in Psychiatry

How long does peer review take at Case Reports in Psychiatry?

Based on the dates recorded on 98 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 173 days (interquartile range 119–235 days); authors report an average review time of about 12 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 28%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.

What are the manuscript requirements of Case Reports in Psychiatry?

According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 300 words; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.

Which databases index Case Reports in Psychiatry?

According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Case Reports in Psychiatry is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ.

Is Case Reports in Psychiatry open access, and what is the APC?

Case Reports in Psychiatry is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 870.

Sources and updates

The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .