The ''Indian Journal of Psychiatry'' is a monthly

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. It is published by Medknow Publications on behalf of the Indian Psychiatric Society. It covers research in all fields of

psychiatry Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of deleterious mental disorder, mental conditions. These include matters related to cognition, perceptions, Mood (psychology), mood, emotion, and behavior. ...

History

The journal was established in 1949 as the ''Indian Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry'' and obtained its present name in 1958. The

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is Om Prakash Singh The following persons have been editors-in-chief:

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in

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, EBSCO databases, Expanded Academic ASAP, and InfoTrac.

Retraction

In 2016, the journal retracted a 2013 supplementary paper because it plagiarized a Wikipedia article.

References

External links

* {{Mental Health in India Psychiatry journals Open access journals Academic journals established in 1949 Medknow Publications academic journals English-language journals Quarterly journals Mental health in India Academic journals associated with learned and professional societies of India