The Journal of Psychopharmacology is the official peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 scientific journal

Scientific journal

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 of the British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP). The journal is published twelve times a year by SAGE Publications

SAGE Publications

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 on behalf of BAP. The editors are Professor David Nutt

David Nutt

David John Nutt is a British psychiatrist and neuropsychopharmacologist specialising in the research of drugs that affect the brain and conditions such as addiction, anxiety and sleep. He was until 2009 a professor at the University of Bristol heading their Psychopharmacology Unit...

 (UK) and Professor Pierre Blier (Canada).

Scope

The journal contains research and reviews on preclinical and clinical aspects of psychopharmacology

Psychopharmacology

Psychopharmacology is the scientific study of the actions of drugs and their effects on mood, sensation, thinking, and behavior...

, providing a forum for researchers and clinicians on the effects of drugs on human and animal behavior and the mechanisms underlying those effects. The journal also publishes the British Association for Psychopharmacology's 'Evidence-based Guidelines for the Pharmacological Treatment' of mental health disorders.

Abstracting and indexing

Journal of Psychopharmacology is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS

Scopus

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, and the Social Sciences Citation Index

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. According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, its 2010 impact factor

Impact factor

The impact factor, often abbreviated IF, is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in science and social science journals. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals with higher impact factors deemed...

is 3.801, ranking it 35 out of 185 journals in the category ‘Clinical Neurology’. and 71 out of 237 journals in the category ‘Neurosciences’. and 48 out of 249 journals in the category ‘Pharmacology & Pharmacy’. and 28 out of 126 journals in the category ‘Psychiatry’.