Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology
Encyclopedia
The Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology is a peer-reviewed
medical journal
published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
covering psychopharmacology
.
, the journal's 2009 impact factor
is 5.092, ranking it 20th out of 236 in the category "Pharmacology & Psychology" and 12th out of 117 in the category "Psychiatry". In addition, the journal is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index
and PubMed
/MEDLINE
.
Peer review
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medical journal
Medical journal
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published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins is an academic and professional medical publisher owned by Wolters Kluwer group. It publishes textbooks, various electronic media, and over 275 journals and newsletters in the health-care field. Publications are aimed at physicians, nurses, clinicians, and students...
covering psychopharmacology
Psychopharmacology
Psychopharmacology is the scientific study of the actions of drugs and their effects on mood, sensation, thinking, and behavior...
.
Abstracting and indexing
According to the Journal Citation ReportsJournal Citation Reports
Journal Citation Reports is an annual publication by the Healthcare & Science division of Thomson Reuters. It has been integrated with the Web of Knowledge, by Thomson Reuters, and is accessed from the Web of Science to JCR Web. It provides information about academic journals in the sciences and...
, the journal's 2009 impact factor
Impact factor
The impact factor, often abbreviated IF, is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in science and social science journals. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals with higher impact factors deemed...
is 5.092, ranking it 20th out of 236 in the category "Pharmacology & Psychology" and 12th out of 117 in the category "Psychiatry". In addition, the journal is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index
Science Citation Index
The Science Citation Index is a citation index originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information and created by Eugene Garfield in 1960, which is now owned by Thomson Reuters. The larger version covers more than 6,500 notable and significant journals, across 150 disciplines, from ...
and PubMed
PubMed
PubMed is a free database accessing primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health maintains the database as part of the Entrez information retrieval system...
/MEDLINE
MEDLINE
MEDLINE is a bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information. It includes bibliographic information for articles from academic journals covering medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and health care...
.