Indian Journal of Psychiatry

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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[edit]

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[edit]

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

Retraction[edit]

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

References[edit]

  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.

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