Community Mental Health Journal is devoted to the evaluation and improvement of public sector mental health services for people affected by severe mental disorders, serious emotional disturbances and/or addictions.
Coverage includes:
- nationally representative epidemiologic projects
- intervention research involving benefit and risk comparisons between service programs
- methodology, such as instrumentation, where particularly pertinent to public sector behavioral health evaluation or research
*Please note: All studies must be approved by human subjects committees (also known as institutional review boards). At the end of the Methods section, authors must state which human subject committee (IRB) approved the study.
SCImago Journal and Country Rank (SJR) 2018: 0.708
76 out of 246 on the Health (Social Science) list
189 out of 489 on the Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health list
210 out of 494 on the Psychiatry and Mental Health list
SJR is a measure of the journal's relative impact in its field, based on its number of citations and number of articles per publication year.
Source Normalised Impact per Paper (SNIP) 2018: 0.857
The SNIP measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field. The impact of a single citation is given higher value in subject areas where citations are less likely, and vice versa.
CiteScore 2018: 1.63
- Studies public sector services for people affected by severe mental disorder, emotional disturbance or addictions
- Presents nationally representative epidemiologic projects
- Coverage includes intervention research involving benefit and risk comparisons between service programs
- Addresses pertinent topics in methodology, such as instrumentation
Journal information
- Editor-in-Chief
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- Sandra Steingard
- Publishing model
- Hybrid (Transformative Journal). Learn about publishing Open Access with us
Journal metrics
- 1.292 (2019)
- Impact factor
- 1.604 (2019)
- Five year impact factor
- 83 days
- Submission to first decision
- 262 days
- Submission to acceptance
- 393,170 (2020)
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Community Mental Health Center Visits and Community Mobility of People with Serious Mental Illnesses: A Facilitator or Constraint?
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Journal updates
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New Article Type: Fresh Focus
Community Mental Health Journal is introducing a new article type, focusing on emerging topics of discussion within community psychiatry. The new article type, Fresh Focus, spans several possible formats and focus topics listed here.
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COVID-19 and impact on peer review
As a result of the significant disruption that is being caused by the COVID-19 pandemic we are very aware that many researchers will have difficulty in meeting the timelines associated with our peer review process during normal times. Please do let us know if you need additional time. Our systems will continue to remind you of the original timelines but we intend to be highly flexible at this time.
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- Electronic ISSN
- 1573-2789
- Print ISSN
- 0010-3853
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