The ''Psychiatric Quarterly'' is a

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that was established in 1915 as ''The State Hospital Quarterly'' ( and ). It obtained its current name in 1927. The publication's founding editor-in-chief was Horatio Pollock.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the

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, and EMBASE, among others. According to the '' Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2010

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of 1.327, ranking it 62nd out of 110 journals in the category "Psychiatry".

In popular culture

In the 2002 episode " Surprise!" of the program '' Greg the Bunny'', it is revealed that character Dottie Sunshine is a reader of ''Psychiatric Quarterly''.

References

External links

* {{Official, https://www.springer.com/medicine/psychiatry/journal/11126
Online archive of ''The State Hospital Quarterly''
at the

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