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Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology
ISSN 2045-1253 · eISSN 2045-1261 · SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD · United States
Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology: CAS Zone 3 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 4.95; fully open access; APC about USD 2,650; median 151 days to acceptance (97 articles, last 24 months); 38 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology is published by SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD 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 Schizophrenia research and treatment, Treatment of Major Depression and Bipolar Disorder and Treatment, together about 46.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Psychiatry and Mental health. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology (TPP) is a peer-reviewed open access journal which has a strong clinical and pharmacological focus and is aimed at clinicians and researchers in psychopharmacology, providing a forum online for publishing the highest quality articles in this area. 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): Multiple
Editor-in-chief David TaylorPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 2%); most named United Kingdom 13, United States 8, Italy 7, Australia 6, Canada 4 (51 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Schizophrenia research and treatmentMedicine24.1%
- Treatment of Major DepressionMedicine12.9%
- Bipolar Disorder and TreatmentMedicine9.2%
- Tryptophan and brain disordersNeuroscience7.2%
- Electroconvulsive Therapy StudiesMedicine5.3%
- Healthcare Decision-Making and RestraintsPsychology4.8%
- Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on BehaviorNeuroscience4.3%
- Psychedelics and Drug StudiesPsychology4.1%
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 | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychiatry | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Psychiatry | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Pharmacology & Pharmacy | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Psychiatry | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
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
- 4.95LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 5Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 4.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 7LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.32LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.42LetPub ·
- h-index
- 61OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 326OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.52OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 4%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 34LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 653 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 64 | 64 | 26 |
| 2025 | 38 | 38 | 96 |
| 2024 | 35 | 35 | 223 |
| 2023 | 35 | 35 | 772 |
| 2022 | 45 | 45 | 719 |
| 2021 | 49 | 49 | 1,180 |
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 PubMed · to
151 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 106 days – 207 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 38 days (97 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 187 days
- Sample
- 97 articles with submission and acceptance dates (104 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 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 | USD 2,650 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,650 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 2,650 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 3,200 / USD 5,500 | — | — |
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 prepare1 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- Vancouver
Article types accepted5
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Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, 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 ·- License & copyright
Creative Commons licensing for manuscript content Model summary
Manuscript content on this site is licensed under Creative Commons Licenses
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. All accepted articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication, are published under a Creative Commons license, and hosted online in perpetuity. If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time article processing charge (APC) is payable to cover the cost of publis…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency:Single-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 reject…
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
Accepts preprint submissions; DOI to be entered at submission; no updated versions during peer review. Model summary
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 PUBLICATIONS LTD
- Country or region
- United States
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2045-1253
- Electronic ISSN
- 2045-1261
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗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 Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology
What CAS zone is Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology is in Zone 3 of Medicine, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Pharmacology & Pharmacy / Psychiatry. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 4.95; CiteScore 7, h-index 61.
How long does peer review take at Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology?
Based on the dates recorded on 97 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 151 days (interquartile range 106–207 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.
Where are the editorial board members of Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology 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 (13), United States (8) and Italy (7). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology open access, and what is the APC?
Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,650.
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: .