Mental Health Religion & Culture

Mental Health Religion & Culture is published by Taylor & Francis 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 Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology, Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health and Religion and Society Interactions, together about 50.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Social Psychology and Clinical Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Mental Health, Religion & Culture provides an authoritative forum and a single point of reference for the growing number of professionals and academics working in the expanding field of mental health and religion. The journal publishes empirically-based work which explores the relationships between mental health and aspects of religion and culture, and discusses conceptual and philosophical aspects. Contributions are encouraged from a range of disciplines including: psychiatry, psychology, anthropology, sociology and other social sciences, philosophy, theology and religious studies, community and social work, counselling and pastoral work. Published papers include clinical and other case material, observational and interview material, survey, questionnaire, psychometric and other quantified data. There is also scope for scholarly review and presentation of historical material, religious texts and other textual material. Systematic reviews, meta-analysis, and theoretical and philosophical analysis are welcomed. Mental Health, Religion & Culture accepts the following types of article: original articles, book reviews, and correspondence. Topics covered include: When and how do religious behaviours become psychiatric symptoms? Cultural variations in psychiatric disease entities: religious influences Religious coping methods and their efficacy Religious healing and mental disorders and their efficacy Religious activities and child-rearing practices and their mental health consequences Religiously-influenced beliefs about the causes of mental disorders Religious group incorporation (conversion) and exiting: mental health consequences Religious aspects of identity and relations with mental health Religious issues in psychotherapy, psychiatry and clinical psychology The role of religious personnel in the multi-disciplinary mental health team. Please note that this journal only publishes manuscripts in English. Peer Review Integrity: Taylor & Francis is committed to peer-review integrity and upholding the highest standards of review. Once your paper has been assessed for suitability by the editor, it will then be double anonymized peer-reviewed by independent, anonymous expert referees. If you have shared an earlier version of your Author’s Original Manuscript on a preprint server, please be aware that anonymity cannot be guaranteed. Further information on our preprints policy and citation requirements can be found on our Preprints Author Services page. Find out mo

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): PSYCHIATRY

Editor-in-chief Christopher AlanPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• CiteScore Q1 · 2025

Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website

Database indexing

ESCIScopusLetPub

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

Indexing the journal's website claims

SCIEPsycINFOCINAHLPublisher website

Other: Caredata, CommunityWISE, Family Studies Database (NISC), Sociological Abstracts, Religious and Theological Abstracts, Theology Digest

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.

Impact

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

0.8Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

1.4Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

2.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

2.3Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

0.38LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.38Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SNIP 2026-06

0.63LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

0.63Publisher website · 2026-10-01

h-index

78OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

832OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.76OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

15.34%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

47LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

155,000Publisher website · 2026-10-01

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.

Other sources

Acceptance rate (publisher)

22%Publisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to first decision

32 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

37 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

262 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

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.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

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

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.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

1367-4676

Electronic ISSN

1469-9737

Latest issue on the website

Volume 29, Issue 1 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website