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Discover Mental Health
ISSN 2731-4383 · Springer · Switzerland
Discover Mental Health: CAS Zone 3 · Psychology (2026 Xinrui edition); impact factor 2.2 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 1,790; median 153 days to acceptance (113 articles, last 24 months); 227 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Discover Mental Health is published by Springer and is classed under Psychology in the CAS Journal Ranking. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Mental Health Treatment and Access, COVID-19 and Mental Health and Digital Mental Health Interventions, together about 30% of its articles. Its main subfields are Clinical Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Discover Mental Health is a fully open access journal that publishes research across the transdisciplinary field of mental health research. The journal welcomes work in theoretical and fundamental sciences, as well as clinical sciences and public health and health services research. The journal will consider work covering the full range of socioeconomic, biological and environmental factors related to the broad field of mental health research. Discover Mental Health is an open access journal that supports the pre-registration of studies and access to research data. Topics Discover Mental Health will publish mental health research that covers topics including, but not limited to, the following: Cell biology, molecular biology, genetics and genomics, pathophysiology, neuroimaging, neurobiology, psychopharmacology, clinical science pertaining to psychiatry, clinical psychology and wider mental health aspects (including prevention, assessment and diagnosis, prognosis, interventions and treatments as well as the interface of mental health and physical health or disease), public health and health services research that looks at mental health intervention and management, epidemiology, and all forms of translational mental health studies covering fundamental research to global health. Content Types Discover Mental Health welcomes a variety of article types – please see our submission guidelines for details. The journal also publishes guest-edited Topical Collections of relevance to all aspects of mental health research. For more information, please follow up with our journal publishing contact.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology-Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)
Editor-in-chief Ma-Li WongPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Mental Health Treatment and AccessPsychology14.5%
- COVID-19 and Mental HealthPsychology8.1%
- Digital Mental Health InterventionsPsychology7.4%
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentPsychology6.2%
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnoutHealth Professions5.4%
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and PostpartumMedicine4.9%
- Migration, Health and TraumaPsychology4.1%
- Family Caregiving in Mental IllnessPsychology3.9%
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)Psychology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychiatry | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
EmbasePsycINFOPublisher 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 (publisher) 2025
- 2.2Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.2LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.83LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.79LetPub ·
- h-index
- 16OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 48OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.16OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 223LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 2,025Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 545,700Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 579 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 231 | 231 | 60 |
| 2025 | 227 | 227 | 705 |
| 2024 | 68 | 68 | 371 |
| 2023 | 27 | 27 | 327 |
| 2022 | 23 | 23 | 383 |
| 2021 | 3 | 3 | 37 |
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
153 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 121 days – 209 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 14 days (113 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 175 days
- Sample
- 113 articles with submission and acceptance dates (478 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 10 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 24 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 10 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).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | EUR 1,490 / USD 1,790 / GBP 1,290 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND | |
| OpenAlex | USD 1,490 / EUR 1,140 / GBP 990 | — | — | |
| LetPub | GBP 940 / USD 1,390 / EUR 1,090 | Yes | — |
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 papers3, by deadline
- Beyond Diagnosis Rethinking Mental Health Through Society, Technology, and ResilienceDeadline
- Cannabinoid Drug Discovery and Clinical Translation of Therapeutic Strategies for Pain, Depression and Anxiety DisordersDeadline
- Mental Health Across the Stroke Continuum: Biomarkers, Risk Prediction, and Precision CareDeadline
What to prepare3 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 250 words
- Reference style
- Numbered, in order of citation
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted14
- brief reportWhen you first submit in Snapp you will need to choose the correct article type.This journal accepts the following article types: Research Research articles pre…Length not stated
- case reportWhen you first submit in Snapp you will need to choose the correct article type.This journal accepts the following article types: Research Research articles pre…Length not stated
- case studyWhen you first submit in Snapp you will need to choose the correct article type.This journal accepts the following article types: Research Research articles pre…Length not stated
- clinical trialDiscover journals adopt WHO’s definition of Clinical Trials as “any research study that prospectively assigns human participants or groups of humans to one or m…Length not stated
- commentComment articles can focus on policy, science and society, or purely scientific issues.Length not stated
- data noteData Notes concisely describe sound research data with the aim of increasing visibility and transparency, supporting the reuse of research data and helping auth…Length not stated
- full research articleWhen you first submit in Snapp you will need to choose the correct article type.This journal accepts the following article types: Research Research articles pre…Length not stated
- matters arisingMatters Arising articles are interesting and timely scientific or academic comments and clarifications on original research papers published in the journal.Length not stated
- methodologyMethodologies should present a new experimental or computational method, test or procedure.Length not stated
- perspectiveA Perspective is a scholarly review and discussion of the primary research literature that does not meet the criteria for a review articleLength not stated
- registered reportRegistered Reports are a publication format in which the research question and the quLength not stated
- researchResearch articles present new scientific results within the scope of the journal that have not been published previously and are not being considered for public…Length not stated
- research articleWhen you first submit in Snapp you will need to choose the correct article type.This journal accepts the following article types: Research Research articles pre…Length not stated
- reviewWhen you first submit in Snapp you will need to choose the correct article type.This journal accepts the following article types: Research Research articles pre…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteLicense & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- License & copyright Step 4 - Understand your copyright
If your submission is accepted for publication, you will need to sign a licence agreement with Springer Nature to allow us to publish your article. According to this agreement:authors of articles published in this journal retain the copyright of their articles.authors grant Springer Nature a licence to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.authors retain full re-use rig…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access publishing
Open access Model summary
To find out more about publishing your work Open Access in Discover Mental Health, including information on fees, funding and licences, visit our Open access publishing page. Back to top Did you find what you were looking for? Share feedback.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Step 3 - Understand the peer review policy
Single-anonymous peer review Model summary
This journal follows a single-anonymous peer review procedure, where the reviewers are aware of the names and affiliations of the authors, but the reviewer reports provided to authors are anonymous. Peer review process All manuscripts undergo technical checks upon submission. Manuscripts that pass technical checks undergo suitability checks by our in-house editorial team. Eligible manuscripts are …
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
- Country or region
- Switzerland
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2731-4383
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Discover Mental Health
What CAS zone is Discover Mental Health in?
In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Psychology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Discover Mental Health?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 2.2 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 2.2, h-index 16.
How long does peer review take at Discover Mental Health?
Based on the dates recorded on 113 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 153 days (interquartile range 121–209 days); authors report an average review time of about 10 weeks. 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 Discover Mental Health?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 250 words; Reference style: Numbered, in order of citation; Cover letter: 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 Discover Mental Health?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Discover Mental Health is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists Embase and PsycINFO; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Discover Mental Health open access, and what is the APC?
Discover Mental Health is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 1,790.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .