Journal profile · Multiple
Psychiatry Psychology and Law
ISSN 1321-8719 · eISSN 1934-1687 · Taylor & Francis
Psychiatry Psychology and Law: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.58; JCR Q1 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 188 days to acceptance (96 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 50% (journal website); 91 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Psychiatry Psychology and Law 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 Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending, Child Abuse and Trauma and Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis, together about 36.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Clinical Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Psychiatry, Psychology and Law is a peer reviewed journal with outstanding academic and professional representation on its editorial board. The journal disseminates high quality information to scholars and professionals working in the areas, or intersections, of psychiatry, psychology and the law. It aims to keep professionals informed about contemporary research and practice developments in these fields and to facilitate cross-disciplinary debate, collaboration and communication. Accordingly, it is expected that authors will contextualise contributions within this disciplinary scope by demonstrating how such contributions reflect intersecting links between the disciplines of psychiatry, psychology and/or the law. The journal publishes original articles and empirical studies; analyses of professional issues, controversies and developments in these areas; case studies and case commentaries; and book reviews. It invites contributions to research and practice developments in forensic psychiatry, forensic psychology, criminology, behavioural science, civil and criminal mental health law and related fields. The journal is open, but not limited, to international or cross-jurisdictional comparisons of experiences in the related fields and invites authors to contextualise in depth analyses of specialised topics to readers of various backgrounds. Further, there is an expectation that where contributions relate to psychiatric, psychological, or legal systems and/or phenomena in international or cross-jurisdictional contexts, authors will attempt to generalise the findings to the jurisdictions of Australia and New Zealand. Periodically, one of the annual issues of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law deals with a particular topic in depth. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law is the professional journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (ANZAPPL). Established in the late 1970s, ANZAPPL is committed to exploring the relationship between the disciplines of psychiatry, psychology and the law. Peer review policy All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and double anonymized refereeing.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Editor-in-chief Mark NolanPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named New Zealand 3, United States 1, Australia 1 (5 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual OffendingPsychology17.5%
- Child Abuse and TraumaPsychology10.3%
- Criminal Justice and Corrections AnalysisSocial Sciences8.8%
- Deception detection and forensic psychologyPsychology8%
- Healthcare Decision-Making and RestraintsPsychology7.9%
- Crime Patterns and InterventionsSocial Sciences4.8%
- Memory Processes and InfluencesNeuroscience4.3%
- Sexual Assault and Victimization StudiesSocial 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 | Criminology & Penology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Law | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychiatry | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychology, Multidisciplinary | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Criminology & Penology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Law | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychiatry | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychology, Multidisciplinary | 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 | Criminology & Penology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Law | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychiatry | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychology, Multidisciplinary | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q1 · best quartile · 2025
- 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
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
EmbasePsycINFOPublisher website
Other: J-Gate, AGIS Plus Text, Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA), Cabell's, Sociological Abstracts, Australian Public Affairs Information Services (APAIS) Index, National Criminal Justice Reference Service, USA
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
- 1.58LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.6Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.2LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 3.2Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.52LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.52Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.25LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1.25Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 53OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 570OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.46OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 12.5%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 20.83%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 78LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 334,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,809 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 61 | 29 | 3 |
| 2025 | 91 | 82 | 102 |
| 2024 | 84 | 83 | 240 |
| 2023 | 56 | 53 | 257 |
| 2022 | 49 | 47 | 307 |
| 2021 | 61 | 60 | 573 |
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
188 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 149 days – 258 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 75 days (96 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 268 days
- Sample
- 96 articles with submission and acceptance dates (157 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
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 50%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 100 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 141 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 81 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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)
Article types accepted5
- book reviewsand book reviewsLength not stated
- case commentariescase studies and case commentariesLength not stated
- case studiescase studies and case commentariesLength not stated
- empirical studiesThe journal publishes original articles and empirical studiesLength not stated
- original articlesThe journal publishes original articles and empirical studiesLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Psychiatry, Psychology and Law is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open access? Increase the discoverabil…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Peer review policy: All research articles have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and double anonymized refereeing. Model summary
All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and double anonymized refereeing.
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
- Taylor & Francis
- ISSN
- 1321-8719
- Electronic ISSN
- 1934-1687
- Society / sponsor
- Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry Psychology and Law
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 33, Issue 4 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Psychiatry Psychology and Law
What CAS zone is Psychiatry Psychology and Law in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Psychiatry Psychology and Law is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Criminology & Penology / Law / Psychiatry / Psychology, Multidisciplinary. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Psychiatry Psychology and Law?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.58; CiteScore 3.2, h-index 53.
How long does peer review take at Psychiatry Psychology and Law?
Based on the dates recorded on 96 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 188 days (interquartile range 149–258 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 50%. 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 JCR quartile is Psychiatry Psychology and Law in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q1 (best quartile). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 4 of Medicine.
Where are the editorial board members of Psychiatry Psychology and Law based?
Of the 5 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are New Zealand (3), United States (1) and Australia (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Psychiatry Psychology and Law?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Psychiatry Psychology and Law is indexed in SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists Embase and PsycINFO; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Psychiatry Psychology and Law open access, and what is the APC?
Psychiatry Psychology and Law is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC charged, amount not published.
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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .