The British Journal of Psychiatry: impact and ranking
The British Journal of Psychiatry has a 2-year mean citedness of 2.83 in OpenAlex, which ranks #4,393 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 375. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.83 #4,393 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 375 #261 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.1M #322 of 18,122
- Works
- 33k 33.5 citations per work
What is the impact factor of The British Journal of Psychiatry?
The impact factor is a figure Clarivate licenses, so it is not shown here. Its open counterpart is the 2-year mean citedness OpenAlex holds for The British Journal of Psychiatry: 2.83, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks The British Journal of Psychiatry #4,393 of 18,122 journals, in the top 24%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of The British Journal of Psychiatry?
OpenAlex gives The British Journal of Psychiatry an h-index of 375: 375 of its papers have each been cited at least 375 times. That ranks #261 of 18,122 journals.
How much does The British Journal of Psychiatry publish?
OpenAlex records 32,978 works in The British Journal of Psychiatry from 1855 to 2026, cited 1,105,940 times in all, 33.5 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #322 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Country
- United Kingdom
- ISSN-L
- 0007-1250
- In OpenAlex
- 1855 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list The British Journal of Psychiatry as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,920.
- Website
- bjp.rcpsych.org
- OpenAlex record
- S127936299
Journals ranked near The British Journal of Psychiatry
The journals with a page that stand just above and below The British Journal of Psychiatry on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,375 | Thin Solid Films | 2.84 | 255 |
| 4,378 | Journal of Computational Chemistry | 2.83 | 283 |
| 4,383 | Journal of Neurophysiology | 2.83 | 427 |
| 4,441 | European Journal of Neuroscience | 2.81 | 277 |
| 4,448 | Spine | 2.80 | 392 |
| 4,484 | Biochemistry | 2.79 | 442 |
How these figures are made
Every figure is from OpenAlex's record of this journal, snapshot of 2026-10-14. The 2-year mean citedness is not Clarivate's impact factor: it counts the citations OpenAlex has recorded, so it differs from the licensed figure. Ranks are among the 18,122 journals with at least 1,000 works in OpenAlex and a record in 2025 or later that pass checks for record errors. Method and limits.