Mental Health Global Challenges Journal

Mental Health Global Challenges Journal is published by NDSAN (MFC-Coordinator of NDSAN). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Mental Health Treatment and Access, COVID-19 and Mental Health and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research, together about 27.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Clinical Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Mental Health: Global Challenges Journal is an open access, peer-reviewed journal, with the primary aim of promoting thought, dialogue, and debate on topics related to mental health. Mental health is an issue and a reality of major global concern, though it is often left to the margins as a topic of conversation. With one of the major aims to challenge and break the stigma of mental health, whilst promoting better health and health care, this journal has a general focus on mental health, mental health care systems, approaches to better mental health, mental health challenges for individuals, families, and groups in different cultures and contexts, mental health and trauma, and mental health and conflict, amongst other related aspects.More specifically, Mental Health: Global Challenges Journal is a journal dedicated to studies of international interest related to mental health and mental health care systems in the global context of social challenges. Therefore, we encourage papers which focus on a variety of topics related to this complex issue. Some examples are as follows: the impact of stigma on mental health and mental health care, mental health and migration, mental health in the time of military conflicts, mental health post conflict, mental health in the workplace, mental health and gender, societal attitudes and approaches to mental health, higher education and mental health care, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to mental health, cultural and cross-cultural challenges related to mental health and related topics. The journal especially encourages manuscripts which may be of interest to policy makers and/or practitioners.The journal accepts high quality English language manuscripts in the form of empirical research studies, case studies, theoretical articles, reviews, and some extended abstracts.Additional InformationMental Health Global Challenges Journal follows practicies of Council of Scientific Editors (CSE), National Information Standards Organization (NISO), and International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE)The Mental Health: Global Challenges Journal is an important source of current and emerging trends in mental health research: challenges, issues, and responses. The journal disseminates articles of scientific and practical importance to a wide, international community of mental health care and related academics and professionals. All articles published in the journal will have been blind peer reviewed by leadin

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Health Professions-Health Professions (miscellaneous)

Editor-in-chief Viktor VusPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Ukraine 3, Canada 2, Greece 1, Algeria 1 (7 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-11-01

CAS Journal Ranking

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

1.5LetPub · 2026-11-01

CiteScore (publisher)

1.5Publisher website · 2026-11-01

SJR 2026-06

0.28LetPub · 2026-11-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.61LetPub · 2026-11-01

h-index

9OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

8OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

2OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

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Average review time (community reports)

about 10 weeksLetPub · 2026-11-01

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 15 weeksDOAJ · 2026-11-01

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

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Publisher

NDSAN (MFC-Coordinator of NDSAN)

Country or region

Italy

Language

English

ISSN

2612-2138

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
• Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
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