Abbreviated title (ISO 4) Biol. Psychiatry Language English | Edited by John H. Krystal | |
Former names Recent Advances in Biological Psychiatry Publisher Elsevier on behalf of the Society of Biological Psychiatry |
Biological Psychiatry is a biweekly, peer-reviewed, scientific journal of psychiatric neuroscience and therapeutics, published by Elsevier since 1985 on behalf of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, of which it is the official journal. The journal covers a broad range of topics related to the pathophysiology and treatment of major neuropsychiatric disorders. A yearly supplement is published which contains the abstracts from the annual meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry.
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History
The journal was established in 1959 as Recent Advances in Biological Psychiatry. It obtained its current name in 1969 with volume numbering restarting at 1 and is the official journal of the Society of Biological Psychiatry. The founding editor-in-chief was Joseph Wortis, who edited the journal until 1992. The current editor is John H. Krystal (Yale University School of Medicine). In 2016, the Society of Biological Psychiatry launched a spin-off journal to Biological Psychiatry titled Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging [ISSN 2451-9022].
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 11.212.
Editors-in-chief
The following persons have been editor-in-chief of the journal: