Journal-level metrics
The metrics below are produced by third parties as ways to quantify the impact this journal has on the research community.
Please note that these metrics should always be considered in the context of how they are calculated. As a signatory of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) we also emphasise that none of these journal-level metrics should be used to judge the impact of an individual article or author, or their research outputs.
For full details of how these metrics are calculated, please see our guide to journal-level metrics.
Journal metrics
| 2-year Impact Factor | 8.8 |
| 5-year Impact Factor | 9.1 |
| Eigenfactor | 0.01163 |
| Article Influence Score | 3.454 |
| CiteScore | 12.8 |
| Scimago Journal Rank (SJR) | 2.471 |
| Source Normalised Impact per Paper (SNIP) | 2.173 |
Peer Review Metrics - Original Research (Paper, Feature & Review) submitted in 2023
BJPsych - Original research submissions received in 2023
Number of submissions: 796
Number of submissions sent for peer review: 134 (17%)
Mean number of reviewers invited: 11
Mean number of reviews received: 2
Decisions made for original research in 2023
Overall acceptance rate: 6%
Median time from submission to first decision: 4 days (54 for papers with at least one review invited)
Median time from submission to final decision: 2 days (92 for papers with at least one review invited)
Article counts
The table below displays information about the number of articles published in this journal in 2024. For further details of how articles are counted, please see our information on publishing statistics.
Published articles
| Total number of articles last year | 71 |
| Number of OA articles last year | 59 |
| Number of articles last year supported by subscription revenue | 12 |