Indian Journal of Psychiatry

Indian Journal of Psychiatry
DisciplinePsychiatry
LanguageEnglish
Edited byOm Prakash Singh
Publication details
Former name(s)
Indian Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry
History1949-present
Publisher
FrequencyMonthly
Yes
2.983 (2021)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Indian J. Psychiatry
Indexing
ISSN0019-5545
OCLC no.746945928
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The Indian Journal of Psychiatry is a monthly 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.

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 Om Prakash Singh 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)
  • T. S. Sathyanarayana

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus,[1] EBSCO databases, Expanded Academic ASAP, 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. Retrieved 2016-02-12.