Indian Journal of Psychiatry

The Indian Journal of Psychiatry is a monthly peer-reviewed open access medical journal. It is published by Medknow Publications on behalf of the Indian Psychiatric Society. It covers research in all fields of psychiatry.

History
The journal was established in 1949 as the Indian Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry and obtained its present name in 1958. The editor-in-chief is Om Prakash Singh The following persons have been editors-in-chief: • N. N. De (1949–1951)

• L. P. Verma (1951–1958)

• A. N. Bardhan (1958–1960)

• M. R. Vachha (1961–1967)

• A. Venkoba Rao (1968–1976)

• B. B. Sethi (1977–1984)

• S. M. Channabasavanna (1985–1988)

• A. K. Agarwal (1989–1992)

• K. Kuruvilla (1993–1996)

• J. K. Trivedi (1997–2002)

• U. Goswami (2003)

• T. S. S. Rao (2004)

• N. G. Desai (2005–2006)

• T. S. S. Rao (2007-2018)

• G. Swaminath (2007)

• T. S. Sathyanarayana

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus, EBSCO databases, Expanded Academic ASAP, and InfoTrac.

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