Journal profile · PSYCHIATRY
International Journal of Social Psychiatry
ISSN 0020-7640 · eISSN 1741-2854 · SAGE
International Journal of Social Psychiatry: CAS Zone 3 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.69; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,900; review about 173 days (submission to acceptance, publisher); acceptance rate 13.6% (journal website); 196 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
International Journal of Social Psychiatry is published by SAGE and is in Zone 3 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Mental Health Treatment and Access, Schizophrenia research and treatment and Family Caregiving in Mental Illness, together about 36.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Clinical Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Established in 1954, International Journal of Social Psychiatry is a peer reviewed journal that provides a forum for the dissemination of findings related to social psychiatry. The journal is of interest to psychiatrists and other members of the multi-disciplinary team around … | View full journal description This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): PSYCHIATRY
Editor-in-chief Antonio VentriglioPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 2%); most named United Kingdom 12, Italy 11, Australia 4, United States 3, India 2 (51 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Mental Health Treatment and AccessPsychology17.3%
- Schizophrenia research and treatmentMedicine11.5%
- Family Caregiving in Mental IllnessPsychology7.4%
- Mental Health and PsychiatryArts and Humanities6%
- Psychotherapy Techniques and ApplicationsPsychology5.3%
- Migration, Health and TraumaPsychology5.2%
- Psychiatric care and mental health servicesPsychology4.4%
- Suicide and Self-Harm StudiesPsychology4.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychiatry | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychiatry | 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 | Psychiatry | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
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
- Impact factor
- 2.69LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.7Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 3.6Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 6.3LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.08LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.32LetPub ·
- h-index
- 116OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,951OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.41OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 3.7%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 26.32%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 167LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 5,420 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 118 | 31 | 23 |
| 2025 | 196 | 80 | 358 |
| 2024 | 181 | 91 | 812 |
| 2023 | 201 | 105 | 1,865 |
| 2022 | 138 | 41 | 1,836 |
| 2021 | 189 | 56 | 3,107 |
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
Publisher-reported review time from the journal's website
173 dayssubmission to acceptance
The publisher's own definition applies; dates from this journal's articles in the last 24 months are not available yet, so the publisher's figure is used.
Figures by source
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 13.6%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 7 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 173 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 46 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 3,900 / GBP 2,859 | — | — | |
| 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)
- Other fees
- No other fees
- Submission fee
- No submission fee
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 prepare3 items from the author guidelines
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 4,000 words
- Reference style
- APA
- Not considered
- unsolicited book reviews
Article types accepted13, with length limits
- book reviewInternational Journal of Social Psychiatry publishes original research and review articles in the fields of social and community psychiatry and in related topic…Length not stated
- book reviewsBook Reviews. The principal aim of book reviews is to make the readers aware of recently published books of significance to the field.Length not stated
- brief reportInternational Journal of Social Psychiatry publishes original research and review articles in the fields of social and community psychiatry and in related topic…main text ≤ 1,000 words
- editorialInternational Journal of Social Psychiatry publishes original research and review articles in the fields of social and community psychiatry and in related topic…Length not stated
- editorials and brief reportsEditorials and Brief Reports. Editorials are generally invited by the Editor and reflect on topics of current controversy or to serve as introductions to themed…Length not stated
- letterInternational Journal of Social Psychiatry publishes original research and review articles in the fields of social and community psychiatry and in related topic…Length not stated
- letters to the editorsLetters to the Editors. Readers' letters should address issues raised by published articles or should report significant new findings that merit rapid dissemina…Length not stated
- original articleInternational Journal of Social Psychiatry publishes original research and review articles in the fields of social and community psychiatry and in related topic…Length not stated
- original articlesOriginal Articles. Articles and reports on original research.Length not stated
- original researchInternational Journal of Social Psychiatry publishes original research and review articles in the fields of social and community psychiatry and in related topic…Length not stated
- reviewInternational Journal of Social Psychiatry publishes original research and review articles in the fields of social and community psychiatry and in related topic…main text ≤ 4,000 words
- review articleInternational Journal of Social Psychiatry publishes original research and review articles in the fields of social and community psychiatry and in related topic…Length not stated
- review articlesReview Articles. Review Articles will, in a scholarly fashion, summarise an important area of the literature.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Author contributions
You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please include the Author Contributions heading within your submission after the Acknowledgements section. The information you give on submission will then show under the Author Contributions heading later at the proofing stage.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal. Figures submitted in color will be published in color in the online version of the journal at no cost. If you wish to have color figures in the printed version, you will receive information regarding the costs from Sage after receipt of your accepted article. Optional open access publishing is available for a fee via the Sage Choice p…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Peer review is double anonymized. Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Double Anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk rejec…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
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
- SAGE
- ISSN
- 0020-7640
- Electronic ISSN
- 1741-2854
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about International Journal of Social Psychiatry
What CAS zone is International Journal of Social Psychiatry in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, International Journal of Social Psychiatry is in Zone 3 of Medicine, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Psychiatry. 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 International Journal of Social Psychiatry?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.69; CiteScore 6.3, h-index 116.
How long does peer review take at International Journal of Social Psychiatry?
The publisher reports about 173 days (submission to acceptance); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 13.6%. 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 International Journal of Social Psychiatry?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Manuscript length: ≤ 4,000 words; Reference style: APA. 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 International Journal of Social Psychiatry based?
Of the 51 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 2%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (12), Italy (11) and Australia (4). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index International Journal of Social Psychiatry?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, International Journal of Social Psychiatry is indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Is International Journal of Social Psychiatry open access, and what is the APC?
International Journal of Social Psychiatry is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,900.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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: .