BMJ Mental Health
is a peer reviewed, open access journal from BMJ covering clinically relevant research in mental health and psychiatry.
Impact Factor: 5.2
Citescore: 18.1
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What I Stand for as Editor-in-Chief
In BMJ Mental Health's first Editorial, Professor Andrea Cipriani outlines the aims, scope and vision for the journal, and discusses the benefits of an accessible, fully open access journal in the field of mental health.
Professor Cipriani also discusses what he will stand for as Editor-in-Chief of BMJ Mental Health, including embedding evidence-based research in routine mental healthcare and fighting stigma and ideology in mental health.
Topic Collections
Advances in Clinical Psychopharmacology in Children and Young People
Clinical psychopharmacology is a developing field with relevant unmet needs and opportunities, such as understanding the best use of currently available medications, gaining insight into their specific effects in the developmental stage of life, and the testing of new medications. This Topic Collection of BMJ Mental Health will publish high quality empirical original studies or evidence synthesis papers on any relevant aspect of clinical psychopharmacology in children and/or young people.
Submission deadline: 30th April 2024
Chronopsychiatry: From Discovery Science to Clinical Innovation
In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest exploring the intersection sleep/circadian science and mental health. BMJ Mental Health is calling for submissions on circadian mental health research and innovation with particular focus on major depression, psychosis, bipolar disorder, dementia, neurodevelopmental disorders (ASD and ADHD) and substance misuse disorders.
Submission deadline: 9th June 2024
Most Read Articles
Child and adolescent mental health:
All-cause and suicide mortalities among adolescents and young adults who contacted specialised gender identity services in Finland in 1996–2019: a register study17 February 2024
Old age psychiatry:
Development and validation of a dementia risk score in the UK Biobank and Whitehall II cohorts21 August 2023
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Latest Articles
Child and adolescent mental health:
Psychiatric admissions in young people after expiration of criminal justice supervision in Australia: a retrospective data linkage study27 March 2024
Editorials:
Data reduction when aggregating information about harms associated with medical interventions22 March 2024
Patient and public involvement and engagement:
Tracing Tomorrow: young peoples preferences and values related to use of personal sensing to predict mental health, using a digital game methodology20 March 2024
Adult mental health:
Psychological burden associated with incident persistent symptoms and their evolution during the COVID-19 pandemic: a prospective population-based study15 March 2024
Genetics and genomics:
Bidirectional associations between mental disorders, antidepressants and cardiovascular disease15 March 2024
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