Biological Psychiatry (journal)
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History
The journal was established in 1959 as Recent Advances in Biological Psychiatry. It obtained its current name in 1969 with volume numbering restarting at 1 and is the official journal of the Society of Biological Psychiatry. The founding editor-in-chief was Joseph Wortis, who edited the journal until 1992. The current editor is John H. Krystal (Yale University School of Medicine). In 2016, a spin-off journal was established: Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging (ISSN 2451-9022). In 2021, a second spin-off journal was established: Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science (ISSN 2667-1743).
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Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
- BIOSIS Previews
- Chemical Abstracts
- Current Contents/Life Sciences
- EMBASE
- Elsevier BIOBASE
- MEDLINE/PubMed
- Mental Health Abstracts
- PsycINFO/Psychological Abstracts
- Referativny Zhurnal
- Science Citation Index
- Scopus
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2019 impact factor of 12.095.
Editors-in-chief
The following persons have been editor-in-chief of the journal:
- Joseph Wortis, 1959–1992
- Wagner H. Bridger, 1992–1997
- Richard C. Josiassen, 1997
- Dennis S. Charney, 1998–2006
- John H. Krystal, 2006–present

