Transcultural Psychiatry is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

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 that publishes papers in the fields of cultural 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...

, psychology and anthropology. The journal's editor-in-chief is Laurence J. Kirmayer (McGill University

McGill University

Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...

). The Associate Editors are Renato Alarcón, Sing Lee, Roland Littlewood and Leslie Swartz. It has been in publication since 1964 and is currently published by SAGE Publications

SAGE Publications

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 on behalf of the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry of McGill University

McGill University

Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...

. It is the official journal of the World Psychiatric Association Transcultural Psychiatry Section.

Scope

Transcultural Psychiatry focuses on the social and cultural determinants of psychopathology and psychosocial treatments of the range of mental and behavioural problems in individuals, families and communities. The journal also draws from the disciplines of psychiatric epidemiology, medical anthropology and cross-cultural psychology.

Abstracting and indexing

Transcultural Psychiatry is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS

Scopus

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, and the Social Sciences Citation Index

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. According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, its 2010 impact factor

Impact factor

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is 0.984, ranking it 80 out of 107 journals in the category ‘Psychiatry’. and 27 out of 75 journals in the category ‘Anthropology’.