Indian Journal of Psychiatry

Academic journal

Indian Journal of PsychiatryDiscipline| Psychiatry

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Language| English
Edited by| Om Prakash Singh
Publication details

Former name(s)

Indian Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry

History| 1949-present
Publisher|

Medknow Publications on behalf of the Indian Psychiatric Society (India)

Frequency| Monthly

Open access

| Yes

Impact factor

| 2.983 (2021)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4 (alt) * Bluebook (alt)
NLM (alt) * MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4| Indian J. Psychiatry
Indexing
CODEN (alt * alt2) * JSTOR (alt) * LCCN (alt)
MIAR * NLM (alt) * Scopus
ISSN| 0019-5545

OCLC no.| 746945928
Links

* Journal homepage
* Online access
* Online archive

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

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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

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

## Retraction

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

## References

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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.

## External links

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* Official website

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Mental health and healthcare in India

Psychiatric hospitals and
other in-patient units|

* Antara
* Bangur Institute of Neurosciences
* Central Institute of Psychiatry Ranchi
* Institute of Mental Health, Amritsar
* Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences
* National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences
* Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research
* State Mental Health Institute
* Vidyasagar Institute of Mental Health and Neuro and Allied Sciences
* Yerwada Mental Hospital

Non-governmental organizations|

* AASRA
* The Alternative Story
* The Banyan
* Lifeline Foundation
* The Live Love Laugh Foundation
* Schizophrenia Research Foundation
* Vandrevala Foundation

Mental health
professional associations|

* Indian Psychiatric Society
* Indian Association of Private Psychiatry
* Indian Association of Clinical Psychology
* National Academy of Psychology

Mental health journals|

* Indian Journal of Psychiatry
* Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine
* Journal of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health
* Mens Sana Monographs

Key people|

* H. Narayan Murthy
* Radhika Chandiramani
* Bhargavi Davar
* Vikram Patel
* Anirudh Kala
* Alok Sarin
* Indira Sharma
* Shekhar Seshadri
* Girindrasekhar Bose
* M. Sarada Menon

Controversy & criticism|

* Erwadi fire incident
* Political abuse of psychiatry in India

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