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Impact factors of psychiatric journals

The British Journal of Psychiatry now has the highest impact factor of all psychiatric journals outside the USA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

Louise Howard  and
Greg Wilkinson
Louise Howard*
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, London SE5 8AF
Greg Wilkinson
Affiliation:
British Journal of Psychiatry, 17 Belgrave Square, London SWIX 8PG
*
Louise Howard, Institute of Psychiatry. London SE5 8AF
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Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 172 , Issue 6 , June 1998 , pp. 457
Copyright
Copyright © 1998 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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