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Culture Medicine and Psychiatry
ISSN 0165-005X · eISSN 1573-076X · Springer Nature · 4 issues per year
Culture Medicine and Psychiatry: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.85; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,090; median 171 days to acceptance (52 articles, last 24 months); 67 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Culture Medicine and Psychiatry is published by Springer Nature and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Mental Health and Psychiatry, Mental Health Treatment and Access and Migration, Health and Trauma, together about 30.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Clinical Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry is an international, interdisciplinary forum publishing work at the intersections of medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities with a specific focus on human experiences of mind, mental distress, and mental health. Founded in 1977, the journal promotes more inclusive understandings of mental distress and illness, particularly by focusing on the role of culture and social context while also illuminating the lived experiences of clinicians, as well as users of mental health care and their families. For this journal, mental health “care” includes biomedical as well as alternative approaches, including (but not limited to): traditional healing, alternative medicine, mutual support, psychedelic treatment, and more. The journal publishes original research that includes social science methodologies such as ethnographic and qualitative research, as well as historical methods such as archival research. Articles should inform clinically-relevant interdisciplinary conversations and include citations from fields like anthropology, medicine/public health, and the medical humanities. We also seek provocative pieces that challenge current trends in the social sciences, humanities and medicine, which can be published as peer-reviewed “perspectives” pieces. In addition, the journal intends to publish more book reviews and opinion pieces and these are welcome. We do not publish pieces that are based on computer-driven text analysis, testing of psychometric scales, or that offer only quantitative data. We also do not publish analyses focused on the psychological traits of fictional characters in books and films.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Editor-in-chief Neely MyersPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 44, United Kingdom 6, Canada 4, France 2, Denmark 2 (62 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Mental Health and PsychiatryArts and Humanities12.2%
- Mental Health Treatment and AccessPsychology11.3%
- Migration, Health and TraumaPsychology7.1%
- Empathy and Medical EducationMedicine6.6%
- Historical Psychiatry and Medical PracticesPsychology6.5%
- Cultural Competency in Health CareSocial Sciences4.5%
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentPsychology4.1%
- Anthropological Studies and InsightsSocial Sciences3.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Anthropology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychiatry | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Social Sciences, Biomedical | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Anthropology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychiatry | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Social Sciences, Biomedical | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Anthropology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychiatry | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Social Sciences, Biomedical | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
SCIEMEDLINEPsycINFOCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: Google Scholar, EBSCO, ProQuest, Dimensions, CNKI, Baidu, Naver, OCLC, Portico, CLOCKSS
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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
- Impact factor
- 1.85LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.9Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.4LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.6LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.34LetPub ·
- h-index
- 107OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 934OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.49OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 10.5%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 46.72%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 54LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 404,200Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,806 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 65 | 27 | 17 |
| 2025 | 67 | 40 | 93 |
| 2024 | 46 | 23 | 155 |
| 2023 | 29 | 16 | 182 |
| 2022 | 51 | 26 | 394 |
| 2021 | 62 | 31 | 710 |
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
171 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 105 days – 275 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 26 days (90 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 206 days
- Sample
- 52 articles with submission and acceptance dates (142 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
- Submission to first decision
- 11 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,090 / EUR 2,490 / GBP 2,190 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Page charges
- No page charges
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)
Open calls for papers1, by deadline
Publisher websiteWhat to prepare5 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 200 words
- Keywords
- ≥ 4
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 8,000 words
- Reference style
- APA
- Suggested reviewers
- Required
Article types accepted8, with length limits
- book reviewsions rests solely with the author(s)”. Book Review: 2-3,000 words max with references; not peer reviewed (but will receive edmain text ≤ 3,000 words
- case studyOriginal Research Article: 8,000 words max plus references; sent out for double blind peer review; two positive reviews required to pass into revision stage and…main text ≤ 8,000 words
- editorialOriginal Research Article: 8,000 words max plus references; sent out for double blind peer review; two positive reviews required to pass into revision stage and…Length not stated
- opinionOriginal Research Article: 8,000 words max plus references; sent out for double blind peer review; two positive reviews required to pass into revision stage and…main text ≤ 3,000 words
- original researchOriginal Research Article: 8,000 words max plus references; sent out for double blind peer review; two positive reviews required to pass into revision stage and…Length not stated
- original research articleOriginal Research Article: 8,000 words max plus references; sent out for double blind peer review; two positive reviews required to pass into revision stage and…main text ≤ 8,000 words
- perspectiveOriginal Research Article: 8,000 words max plus references; sent out for double blind peer review; two positive reviews required to pass into revision stage and…Length not stated
- reviewOriginal Research Article: 8,000 words max plus references; sent out for double blind peer review; two positive reviews required to pass into revision stage and…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Authorship principles
These guidelines describe authorship principles and good authorship practices to which prospective authors should adhere to. Authorship clarified The Journal and Publisher assume all authors agreed with the content and that all gave explicit consent to submit and that they obtained consent from the responsible authorities at the institute/organization where the work has been carried out, before th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Disclosures and declarations
All authors are requested to include information regarding sources of funding, financial or non-financial interests, study-specific approval by the appropriate ethics committee for research involving humans and/or animals, informed consent if the research involved human participants, and a statement on welfare of animals if the research involved animals (as appropriate). The decision whether such …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability statements
All original research must include a data availability statement. This statement should explain how to access data supporting the results and analysis in the article, including links/citations to publicly archived datasets analysed or generated during the study. Please see our full policy here. If it is not possible to share research data publicly, for instance when individual privacy could be com…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Compliance with Ethical Standards
To ensure objectivity and transparency in research and to ensure that accepted principles of ethical and professional conduct have been followed, authors should include information regarding sources of funding, potential conflicts of interest (financial or non-financial), informed consent if the research involved human participants, and a statement on welfare of animals if the research involved an…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access publishing
To find out more about publishing your work Open Access in Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, including information on fees, funding and licences, visit our Open access publishing page. Back to top
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical Trial Registration
The World Health Organization (WHO) definition of a clinical trial is "any research study that prospectively assigns human participants or groups of humans to one or more health-related interventions to evaluate the effects on health outcomes". The WHO defines health interventions as “A health intervention is an act performed for, with or on behalf of a person or population whose purpose is to ass…
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
- Springer Nature
- Frequency
- 4 issues per year
- ISSN
- 0165-005X
- Electronic ISSN
- 1573-076X
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Culture Medicine and Psychiatry
What CAS zone is Culture Medicine and Psychiatry in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Culture Medicine and Psychiatry is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Anthropology / Psychiatry / Social Sciences, Biomedical. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Culture Medicine and Psychiatry?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.85; CiteScore 3.4, h-index 107.
How long does peer review take at Culture Medicine and Psychiatry?
Based on the dates recorded on 52 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 171 days (interquartile range 105–275 days). 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 Culture Medicine and Psychiatry?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 200 words; Keywords: ≥ 4; Manuscript length: ≤ 8,000 words; Reference style: APA; Suggested reviewers: 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Culture Medicine and Psychiatry based?
Of the 62 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (44), United Kingdom (6) and Canada (4). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Culture Medicine and Psychiatry?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Culture Medicine and Psychiatry is indexed in SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists SCIE, MEDLINE, PsycINFO and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Culture Medicine and Psychiatry open access, and what is the APC?
Culture Medicine and Psychiatry is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,090.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; 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: .