Psychiatric Services
Encyclopedia
Psychiatric Services is a peer-reviewed academic journal
publishing research on psychiatry
. It is published monthly by American Psychiatric Association
(APA), and is edited by Howard H. Goldman.
The journal was founded in 1950 by Daniel Blain, APA’s first medical director, as the A.P.A. Mental Hospital Service Bulletin. It is published "for mental health professionals and others concerned with treatment and services for persons with mental illnesses and mental disabilities, in keeping with APA's objectives to improve care and treatment, to promote research and professional education in psychiatric and related fields, and to advance the standards of all psychiatric services and facilities."
The journal is abstracted and/or indexed by Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition (Thomson ISI), Medline
/PubMed
, Science Citation Index Expanded, SciFinder, SciSearch, Scopus
and Web of Science
, among others. Its impact factor is 2.813.
Academic journal
An academic journal is a peer-reviewed periodical in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research...
publishing research on psychiatry
Psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. These mental disorders include various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities...
. It is published monthly by American Psychiatric Association
American Psychiatric Association
The American Psychiatric Association is the main professional organization of psychiatrists and trainee psychiatrists in the United States, and the most influential worldwide. Its some 38,000 members are mainly American but some are international...
(APA), and is edited by Howard H. Goldman.
The journal was founded in 1950 by Daniel Blain, APA’s first medical director, as the A.P.A. Mental Hospital Service Bulletin. It is published "for mental health professionals and others concerned with treatment and services for persons with mental illnesses and mental disabilities, in keeping with APA's objectives to improve care and treatment, to promote research and professional education in psychiatric and related fields, and to advance the standards of all psychiatric services and facilities."
The journal is abstracted and/or indexed by Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition (Thomson ISI), 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...
/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...
, Science Citation Index Expanded, SciFinder, SciSearch, Scopus
Scopus
Scopus, officially named SciVerse Scopus, is a bibliographic database containing abstracts and citations for academic journal articles. It covers nearly 18,000 titles from over 5,000 international publishers, including coverage of 16,500 peer-reviewed journals in the scientific, technical, medical,...
and Web of Science
Web of Science
ISI Web of Knowledge is an academic citation indexing and search service, which is combined with web linking and provided by Thomson Reuters. Web of Knowledge coverage encompasses the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. It provides bibliographic content and the tools to access, analyze,...
, among others. Its impact factor is 2.813.