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Psychological Medicine — Impact Factor
The 2025 Impact Factor of Psychological Medicine is 5.2 (Q1 in Psychiatry; subscription or hybrid).
- Impact Factor
- 5.2 JCR 2025
- JCR category
- Psychiatry
- Quartile
- Q1 in Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Open access
- subscription or hybrid
- IF source
- cambridge.org
Position within the field
Ranked 20 of the 38 journals in Psychiatry on this site (bottom 50%).
Psychiatry journals with a similar Impact Factor
- Journal of Affective Disorders IF 5.7
- Psychiatry Research IF 5.1
- Journal of Anxiety Disorders IF 5.0
- Asian Journal of Psychiatry IF 4.9
- Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging IF 4.9
- Comprehensive Psychiatry IF 4.8
About this value
The Journal Impact Factor of Psychological Medicine (JCR 2025, released June 2026) is 5.2. Values are compiled by cross-checking figures published by publishers and societies against public aggregators; this is not a reproduction of Clarivate Journal Citation Reports™. Confirm the current value on the publisher's page or in JCR before deciding where to submit. The quartile (Q1–Q4) is the journal's relative position within its JCR category; Q1 means the top 25%.
Last updated September 2026. Report errors via the contact form. Other journals in the same category: Psychiatry.