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The British Journal of Psychiatry — Impact Factor
The 2025 Impact Factor of The British Journal of Psychiatry is 8.5 (Q1 in Psychiatry; subscription or hybrid).
- Impact Factor
- 8.5 JCR 2025
- JCR category
- Psychiatry
- Quartile
- Q1 in Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Royal College of Psychiatrists)
- Open access
- subscription or hybrid
- IF source
- cambridge.org
Position within the field
Ranked 10 of the 38 journals in Psychiatry on this site (top 50%).
Psychiatry journals with a similar Impact Factor
- Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry IF 9.6
- Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics IF 9.0
- European Neuropsychopharmacology IF 8.1
- European Psychiatry IF 7.9
- Neuropsychopharmacology IF 7.6
- Translational Psychiatry IF 7.5
About this value
The Journal Impact Factor of The British Journal of Psychiatry (JCR 2025, released June 2026) is 8.5. 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.