Journal of Psychiatry Research

JOPR publishes psychiatry research from clinics, addiction services, the youth justice system and the wider community. So far that means herbal and psychedelic-assisted treatment studies, forensic work with young people in the justice system, and community studies of late-life depression and of the stigma linked to obsessive-compulsive disorder, published as original studies, case series and a critical review.

It is written for psychiatrists and psychiatry trainees, clinical psychologists, addiction and forensic mental-health clinicians, and researchers who measure mental health in the community. Authors who validate a screening scale, follow patients in an outpatient clinic or survey a population in a low- or middle-income country will find papers like their own in JOPR.

JOPR's online ISSN is 2995-6439, and JOPR is the abbreviation the journal uses for itself; Directive Publications is the publisher. In a reference list, spell out the full title, Journal of Psychiatry Research, next to the ISSN, since shortened psychiatry journal titles are easily mixed up.

Not at present; Clarivate has not assigned JOPR a Journal Impact Factor. The numbers that appear in searches for this title belong to older psychiatry journals with similar names, so check that any figure you see is tied to ISSN 2995-6439 before you link it to JOPR.

Yes, and the review is double-blind. A paper that passes the editors' first screening reaches its reviewers stripped of author details, and the authors never see who reviewed it. Fees play no part in this step, because whether an author will pay the APC or has applied for a waiver is withheld from everyone assessing the manuscript.

Yes. Anyone can open a JOPR paper on directivepublications.org and save its PDF, with no sign-in and no subscription. Authors keep the copyright, and under CC BY 4.0 anyone may share, translate or adapt the work, for teaching, a patient leaflet or a later study, provided the original article is credited.

Submission and peer review cost nothing; JOPR's article-processing charge (APC) falls due only when a manuscript has been accepted, so a rejected paper incurs no charge. The submission system shows the amount that applies to your paper as you go through its steps. Clinicians and researchers without funding, for instance in under-resourced mental-health services, can request a full waiver or a partial discount, ideally when they submit; the Waiver Policy page explains how requests are judged.

Submissions go through the online form at directivepublications.org/submit: select Journal of Psychiatry Research in its journal menu before uploading the files. For the double-blind process, send a title page with all names, affiliations and ORCID iDs separately from a main manuscript stripped of identifiers, and number the references in Vancouver style. Psychiatric studies usually follow STROBE for observational surveys, PRISMA for systematic reviews or CARE for case reports; an ORCID iD for each author is encouraged.

Yes. JOPR has already published case series, among them five young violent offenders with autism spectrum disorder. Base the report on the CARE checklist and record in it that written informed consent came from the patient. Anything that could identify a person, such as a photograph, an unusual occupation or a court history, needs a separate, explicit consent to publication, which matters especially in forensic psychiatry.

Any JOPR study that involves patients, people in custody or community volunteers needs a named approving ethics committee, a statement of compliance with the Declaration of Helsinki and confirmation of written informed consent. Put these statements in the Methods, together with the reporting guideline the study followed, as the Author Guidelines ask.

Look up ISSN 2995-6439 in the ISSN Portal, whose record links the title to directivepublications.org, and check that the article or invitation you received points back to directivepublications.org/journal-of-psychiatry-research, where every published JOPR article is listed.

No. Several psychiatry journals have titles built from the same few words, including two long-established ones that many searches for this name reach first, and JOPR has no link with any of them. Journal of Psychiatry Research, written without "The" and carrying ISSN 2995-6439, is the Directive Publications title; a citation, ranking page or email that gives another ISSN or publisher refers to a different journal.

Editorial problems such as a disputed author list, a conflict of interest declared too late, or doubts about a dataset or an image are handled following the COPE guidelines, which also govern any correction or retraction. Before review, each JOPR manuscript is run through similarity-detection software to catch overlap with published work.