Psychotherapy Research is a bimonthly peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

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 covering research in all fields of psychotherapy: outcome, process, education and training of therapists, as well as investigations of services. It is published by Routledge

Routledge

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 on behalf of the Society for Psychotherapy Research

Society for Psychotherapy Research

The Society for Psychotherapy Research is a learned society founded in 1970. It is multidisciplinary, international association for research into psychotherapy...

. The founding team of editors consisted of David Shapiro, Hans Strupp, and Klaus Grawe. The current editors are Paulo Machado (University of Minho

University of Minho

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) and Christopher Muran (Derner Institute, Adelphi University

Adelphi University

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).

Abstracting and indexing

Psychotherapy Research is abstracted and indexed in MEDLINE

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, Scopus

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, Social Sciences Citation Index

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, Psychological Abstracts

Psychological Abstracts

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, PsycINFO

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, PsycLIT

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, and Innovations & Research. According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, the journal has a 2010 impact factor

Impact factor

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of 1.708, ranking it 42nd out of 102 journals in the category "Psychology, Clinical".