Indian Journal of Psychiatry

The Indian Journal of Psychiatry is a quarterly peer-reviewed open access medical journal. It is published by Medknow Publications on behalf of the Indian Psychiatric Society. It covers research in all fields of psychiatry. Each year, the April issue is accompanied by a supplement that contains the abstracts of presentations at the annual meeting of the society.

Indian Journal of Psychiatry
DisciplinePsychiatry
LanguageEnglish
Edited byProf. Om Prakash Singh
Publication details
Former name(s)
Indian Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry
History1949-present
Publisher
FrequencyQuarterly
Yes
0.81 (2016)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Indian J. Psychiatry
Indexing
ISSN0019-5545
OCLC no.746945928
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History

The journal was established in 1949 as the Indian Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry and obtained its present name in 1958. The editor-in-chief is T. S. Sathyanarayana Rao (Jagadguru Sri Shivarathreeshwara University). The following persons have been editors-in-chief:

  • N. N. De (1949–1951)
  • L. P. Verma (1951–1958)
  • A. N. Bardhan (1958–1960)
  • M. R. Vachha (1961–1967)
  • A. Venkoba Rao (1968–1976)
  • B. B. Sethi (1977–1984)
  • S. M. Channabasavanna (1985–1988)
  • A. K. Agarwal (1989–1992)
  • K. Kuruvilla (1993–1996)
  • J. K. Trivedi (1997–2002)
  • U. Goswami (2003)
  • T. S. S. Rao (2004)
  • N. G. Desai (2005–2006)
  • T. S. S. Rao (2007-2018)
  • G. Swaminath (2007)

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus,[1] EBSCO databases, Expanded Academic ASAP, IndMed, and InfoTrac.

Retraction

In 2016, the journal retracted a 2013 supplementary paper because it plagiarized a Wikipedia article.[2][3]

References
  1. "Content overview". Scopus. Elsevier. Retrieved 2015-04-01.
  2. "Wikipedia page reincarnated as paper: Authors plagiarized paper on reincarnation". Retraction Watch. Retrieved 2016-02-02.
  3. "Article retracted after 'overlapping text' from Wikipedia found". The Hindu. 6 February 2016. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
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