Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy is published by Associação de Psiquiatria do Rio Grande do Sul 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 Schizophrenia research and treatment, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development and Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes, together about 21.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry and Mental health. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Brief Background Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy is the official scientific publication of Associação de Psiquiatria do Rio Grande do Sul (APRS, Brazil). The journal has been published uninterruptedly since 1979, under different titles. Along the years, the journal has increased its periodicity and become increasingly international, which has resulted in indexation in different databases. It is currently published in continuous publication format. The journal’s abbreviated title is Trends Psychiatry Psychother. Open Access This journal follows the Open Access model, allowing unrestricted virtual access (including no financial barriers) to all scientific texts published by the journal. Open Access is a condition whereby the copyright holder of an academic work grants usage rights to third parties through an open license (Creative Commons Attribution, CC-BY), permitting immediate free access to the work and authorizing any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose. Open Science Compliance The journal is fully open access. All journal content (except where identified) is licensed under a Creative Commons attribution-type BY (CC-BY). Ethics in Publication We observe the ethics in publication values set forth in the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals published by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), as well as the publication ethics principles described by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Focus and Scope The journal covers the broad spectrum of clinical psychiatry and basic science, with a focus on the interaction between experimental and clinical research. Other types of articles whose primary focus is to help translate fundamental discoveries from basic science into the reality of clinical psychiatric practice will also be considered. These may include papers on psychological processes and behavior, neuropsychology, psychopharmacology, clinical neuroscience, psychotherapy, and other areas of relevance to one or more aspects of psychopathology and psychiatry. Digital Preservation This journal is indexed cover to cover by SciELO and PMC, and therefore meets digital preservation criteria. Indexing Sources Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy is indexed in the following databases and platforms:

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): PSYCHIATRY

Editor-in-chief Taiane de Azevedo CardosoPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Brazil 44, United States 10, Canada 5, United Kingdom 2, Australia 2 (65 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub

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

Indexing the journal's website claims

MEDLINEEmbasePsycINFOPublisher website

Other: Index Medicus, EBSCO, Latindex

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

CiteScore 2026-06

4.6LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.78LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.87LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

47OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

268OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.3OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

97.73%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

22LetPub · 2026-09-13

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

Average review time (community reports)

about 13 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 13 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

Peer review

Open peer review, Unspecified 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.

• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ

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

Associação de Psiquiatria do Rio Grande do Sul

Country or region

Brazil

Language

English, Spanish, Portuguese

ISSN

2237-6089

Electronic ISSN

2238-0019

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
• Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
• Peer review process ↗DOAJ
• Editorial board ↗DOAJ
• Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ