Biological Psychiatry | |
Formernames: | Recent Advances in Biological Psychiatry |
Editor: | John H. Krystal |
Discipline: | Biological psychiatry |
Abbreviation: | Biol. Psychiatry |
Publisher: | Elsevier on behalf of the Society of Biological Psychiatry |
Frequency: | Biweekly |
History: | 1959–present |
Impact: | 13.382 |
Impact-Year: | 2020 |
Website: | https://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/ |
Link1: | https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/biological-psychiatry |
Link1-Name: | Online access |
Link2: | http://www.journals.elsevier.com/biological-psychiatry |
Link2-Name: | Journal page at publisher's website |
Issn: | 0006-3223 |
Eissn: | 1873-2402 |
Oclc: | 424038458 |
Lccn: | 78009779 |
Coden: | BIPCBF |
Biological Psychiatry is a biweekly, peer-reviewed, scientific journal of psychiatric neuroscience and therapeutics, published by Elsevier since 1985 on behalf of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, of which it is the official journal. The journal covers a broad range of topics related to the pathophysiology and treatment of major neuropsychiatric disorders. A yearly supplement is published which contains the abstracts from the annual meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry.
The journal was established in 1959 as Recent Advances in Biological Psychiatry.[1] It obtained its current name in 1969 with volume numbering restarting at 1[2] and is the official journal of the Society of Biological Psychiatry. The founding editor-in-chief was Joseph Wortis, who edited the journal until 1992.[3] [4] The current editor is John H. Krystal (Yale University School of Medicine). In 2016, a spin-off journal was established: Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging . In 2021, a second spin-off journal was established: Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science .
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 12.095.[5]
The following persons have been editor-in-chief of the journal: