期刊名称：BMC PSYCHIATRY ISSN： 1471-244X 出版频率： Continuous publication 出版社： BMC, CAMPUS, 4 CRINAN ST, LONDON, ENGLAND, N1 9XW   出版社网址： http://www.biomedcentral.com/ 期刊网址： http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcpsychiatry 影响因子： 3.63 主题范畴： PSYCHIATRY 期刊简介(About the journal)    投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)    编辑部信息(Editorial Board)    About the journal About BMC Psychiatry Aims and scope | Editorial team | Open access | Article-processing charges | Indexing services | Publication and peer review process | Editorial policies | Citing articles in BMC Psychiatry | Why publish your article in BMC Psychiatry? This page includes information about the aims and scope of BMC Psychiatry, editorial policies, open access and article-processing charges, the peer review process and other information. For details of how to prepare and submit a manuscript through the online submission system, please see the instructions for authors. Scope BMC Psychiatry is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of the prevention, diagnosis and management of psychiatric disorders, as well as related molecular genetics, pathophysiology, and epidemiology. It is journal policy to publish work deemed by peer reviewers to be a coherent and sound addition to scientific knowledge and to put less emphasis on interest levels, provided that the research constitutes a useful contribution to the field. Editorial team Executive Editor Alice Murray Editorial Board Manager Paul Lambert Journal Development Manager Genevieve Horne Senior Managing Editor Diana Marshall Publisher Jo Appleford-Cook Open access All articles published by BMC Psychiatry are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. Further information about open access can be found here. 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In the case of authors whose institutions are Supporter Members, however, a discounted article-processing charge is payable by the author. For further details, see our article-processing charge page. Indexing services All articles published in BMC Psychiatry are included in: CAS Cases Database Citebase Current contents DOAJ Embase Google Scholar Index Copernicus MEDLINE Medscape OAIster PsycINFO PubMed PubMed Central Science Citation Index Expanded SCImago Scirus Scopus SOCOLAR Zetoc The full text of all research articles is deposited in digital archives including e-Depot (The Netherlands). The full text of all research articles published by BioMed Central is also available on SpringerLink. All case reports published in this journal will also be indexed in Cases Database. BMC Psychiatry is tracked by Thomson Reuters (ISI) and has an Impact Factor of 2.23. Publication and peer review process Publication of research articles by BMC Psychiatry is dependent primarily on their scientific validity and coherence as judged by our external expert editors and/or peer reviewers, who will also assess whether the writing is comprehensible and whether the work represents a useful contribution to the field. BMC Psychiatry operates an 'open peer review' policy meaning reviewers are asked to sign their reviews. The pre-publication history including all submitted versions, reviewers' reports and authors' responses will be linked to from the published article. Authors will be able to check the progress of their manuscript through the submission system at any time by logging into My BMC Psychiatry, a personalized section of the site. Reprints High-quality, bound reprints can be purchased for all articles published. Please see our reprints website for further information about ordering reprints. Supplements BMC Psychiatry will consider supplements based on proceedings (full articles or meeting abstracts), reviews or research. All articles submitted for publication in supplements are subject to peer review. Published supplements are fully searchable and freely accessible online and can also be produced in print. For further information, please contact us. Editorial policies All manuscripts submitted to BMC Psychiatry should adhere to BioMed Central's editorial policies. Appeals and complaints Authors who wish to appeal a rejection or make a complaint should, in the first instance, contact the Executive Editor who will provide details of the journal's complaints procedure. Citing articles in BMC Psychiatry Articles in BMC Psychiatry should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. Because articles are not printed, they do not have page numbers; instead, they are given a unique article number. Article citations follow this format: Authors: Title. BMC Psychiatry [year], [volume number]:[article number]. e.g. Roberts LD, Hassall DG, Winegar DA, Haselden JN, Nicholls AW, Griffin JL: Increased hepatic oxidative metabolism distinguishes the action of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor delta from Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor gamma in the Ob/Ob mouse. BMC Psychiatry 2009, 1:115. refers to article 115 from Volume 1 of the journal. Why publish your article in BMC Psychiatry? High visibility BMC Psychiatry's open access policy allows maximum visibility of articles published in the journal as they are available to a wide, global audience. Articles that have been especially highly accessed are highlighted with a 'Highly accessed' graphic, which appears on the journal's contents pages and search results. Speed of publication BMC Psychiatry offers a fast publication schedule whilst maintaining rigorous peer review; all articles must be submitted online, and peer review is managed fully electronically (articles are distributed in PDF form, which is automatically generated from the submitted files). Articles will be published with their final citation after acceptance, in both fully browsable web form, and as a formatted PDF; the article will then be available through BMC Psychiatry and BioMed Central. Flexibility Online publication in BMC Psychiatry gives authors the opportunity to publish large datasets, large numbers of color illustrations and moving pictures, to display data in a form that can be read directly by other software packages so as to allow readers to manipulate the data for themselves, and to create all relevant links (for example, to PubMed, to sequence and other databases, and to other articles). 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Editorial Board Section Editors Cathy Barr The Toronto Western Hospital, Canada Ruth Benca University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Secondo Fassino Turin University, Italy Morten Hesse University of Aarhus, Denmark Ute Lewitzka Dalhousie University, Canada Paul Lysaker VA Medical center, USA Nexhmedin Morina University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Frank Neuner Bielefeld University, Germany Mark Powers University of Texas at Austin, United States of America Lon S Schneider University of Southern California, USA Florian Seemüller Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany Emanuel Severus TU Dresden, Germany Martin Teicher Harvard Medical School, USA Wei Wang Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China Deputy Section Editor Ute Lewitzka Dalhousie University, Canada Dr Michael Gerhard Odenwald University of Konstanz, Germany Emanuel Severus TU Dresden, Germany Associate Editors Pauline Aalten Maastricht University, Netherlands Ofer Agid University of Toronto, Canada Gerhard Andersson Linköping University, Sweden Mikkel Arendt Aarhus University, Denmark Todd Arnedt University of Michigan, USA Ursula Franziska Bailer Medical University of Vienna, Austria Lina Balluz Behaviour Surveillance Branch, USA Matthias Berking University of Marburg, Germany Carl Birmingham University of British Columbia, Canada Nigel Blackwood Kings College London, UK Stefan Borgwardt University of Basel, Switzerland Rami Bou Khalil Psychiatric hospital of the Cross- Saint Joseph University, Lebanon Francesca Brambilla Sacco Hospital, Milan, Italy Paolo Brambilla University of Udine, Italy Jeffrey Bridge The Ohio State University, USA Alan Brown Columbia University, USA Martin Brüne University of Bochum, Germany Nick Carleton University of Regina, Canada Mauro Giovanni Carta University of Cagliari, Italy Imran Chaudhry University of Manchester, UK Varuni de Silva University of Colombo, Sri Lanka Lindsey DeBoer Rush University Medical Center, USA Peter Dome Semmelweis University, Hungary Markus Donix University Hospital Dresden, Germany Sarah Doucette Dalhousie University, Canada Ask Elklit University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Linda Ercoli UCLA, USA Markku Eronen Vanhan Vaasan Sairaala, Finland Alessandra Falco University of Padova, Italy Angela Favaro University of Padua, Italy Jess Fiedorowicz The University of Iowa, USA Mario Fioravanti University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Helen Fisher Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK Martine Flament University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research, Canada Robin Gearing Columbia University, USA Philip Gehrman University of Pennsylvania, USA Heide Glaesmer University of Leipzig, Germany Fernando Goes Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA Terry E Goldberg Hofstra North Shore School of Medicine, USA Andrea Goldschmidt Washington University, USA Carla Maria Gramaglia Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy Andrew J Greenshaw University of Alberta, Canada Emilio Gutierrez Universidad de Compostela, Spain Paul Holtzheimer Emory University, USA Tina In-Albon University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Tae-Youn Jun The Catholic University of Korea, Korea, South Mario Juruena University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Joshua Kantrowitz Columbia University, USA Niranjan Karnik Rush University Medical Center, USA Stephanie Kasen Columbia University, USA Ian Kelleher Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Ireland Deanna L Kelly University of Maryland, USA Katherine Keyes Columbia University, United States of America James Bowes Kirkbride University of Cambridge, UK Iris-Tatjana Kolassa University of Konstanz, Germany Ivan Komproe Utrecht University, Netherlands Rajeev Krishnadas University of Glasgow, UK Dr Marek Kubicki Harvard Medical School, USA Jens Kuhn University of Cologne, Germany Jonna Kuntsi Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK Stephanie Le Hellard University of Bergen, Norway David Ledgerwood Wayne State School of Medicine, USA Daniel Legrange Univ of Chicago, USA Andrew Leuchter UCLA, USA Lisa Lilenfeld Argosy University, Washington DC, USA Eugene Lin China Medical University, Taiwan Ramon Lindauer AMC-de Bascule, Netherlands Antony Loebel Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc, USA Sean Lynch University of Exeter, UK Laura Mandelli University of Bologna, Italy Prof Donatella Marazziti University of Pisa, Italy Sanjay Mathew Baylor College of Medicine, USA Marco Menchetti Bologna University, Italy gabriella milos University of Zurich, Switzerland Nexhmedin Morina University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Richard Musil Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Germany Carryl P Navalta Boston University School of Medicine, USA Kelly Newell University of Wollongong, Australia Angela Nickerson University of New South Wales, Australia Dr Michael Gerhard Odenwald University of Konstanz, Germany David Cunningham Owens University of Edinburgh, UK Barton Palmer University of California, USA Michael Pentzek University Medical Center Duesseldorf, Germany K. Luan Phan Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA Ann Polcari Northeastern University, USA Mark Powers University of Texas at Austin, United States of America Basant Puri MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College, UK Valdo Ricca Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Careggi, Italy Philipp S. Ritter University Hospital Dresden, Germany David Roe University of Haifa, Israel David Rudd College of Social and Behavioural Science, USA Jorun Rugkasa Akershus University Hospital, Norway Dallas Seitz Queen's University, Canada Shukwinder Shergill Kings College London, USA Dr Daniel Smith University of Glasgow, UK Nadia Solowij University of Wollongong, Australia Renan Souza Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Birgitte Thylstrup Centre for drug and Alcohol Research, Denmark Arun Tiwari Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada Akemi Tomoda University of Fukui, Japan Paul Unschuld Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich, Switzerland Jack van Honk Utrecht University, Netherlands Tamsyn Van Rheenen Swinburne University, Australia Antonio Vela-Bueno Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain Norio Watanabe Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Japan Monnica Williams University of Louisville, USA Jutta Wolf Brandeis University, USA Gwyneth Zai University of Toronto, Canada Jamie Zeitzer Stanford University, USA Patrizia Zeppegno University of Eastern Piedmont Amedeo Avogadro, Italy Simon Øverland University of Bergen, Norway Editorial Advisors Paul S Appelbaum Columbia University, United States of America Simon Baron-Cohen University of Cambridge, United Kingdom John T Cacioppo University of Chicago, United States of America Edmond Chiu University of Melbourne, Australia C. Robert C Cloninger Washington University, United States of America Alv A Dahl Oslo University Hospital, Norway Jose de Leon University of Kentucky, United States of America Louisa Degenhardt University of New South Wales, Australia Donna Dickenson Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom Thomas Elbert University of Konstanz, Germany Paul Emmelkamp University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Hans Foerstl Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie der Tech­nischen Universität München,, Germany Toshiaki Furukawa Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine / School of Public Health, Japan Nassir Ghaemi Tufts Medical Center, United States of America Christian Guilleminault Sleep Disorders Clinic, United States of America Uriel Halbreich SUNY-AB, United States of America Matthew Hotopf GKT School of Medicine, United Kingdom Eve C Johnstone University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom John Kane The Zucker Hillside Hospital, United States of America Prof Shitij Kapur University of Toronto, Canada Scott Kim University of Michigan, United States of America George Kirov Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff University, United Kingdom Moshe Kotler Tel Aviv University, Israel Malcolm Lader Institute of Psychiatry, United Kingdom Raymond Lam University of British Columbia, Canada Stephen Lawrie University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Antonio Lobo Hospital Clínico Universitario de Zaragoza, Spain Simon Lovestone Institute of Psychiatry, United Kingdom Harriet L MacMillan McMaster University, Canada Alain A Malafosse University of Geneva, Switzerland Rachel Manber Stanford University, United States of America Thomas H McGlashan Yale University, United States of America John McGrath The Park Centre for Mental Heatlh, Australia Peter McGuffin Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, United Kingdom James H Meador-Woodruff University of Michigan, United States of America Julien Mendlewicz University of Brussels, Belgium John Nurnberger Indiana University School of Medicine, United States of America Gordon B Parker Prince of Wales Hospital, Australia Nancy Petry Univ of CT Health Center, United States of America Marc Potenza Yale University School of Medicine, United States of America Peter Rabins Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, United States of America Nina R Schooler Georgetown University School of Medicine, United States of America Martha Shenton Harvard Medical School, United States of America Greg Simon Group Health Cooperative, United States of America Dan Stein University of Cape Town, South Africa Louis G Tassinary College of Architecture, Texas A&M University Anita Thapar Cardiff University, United Kingdom Gustavo Turecki McGill University, Canada Kristian Wahlbeck THL National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland Myrna M Weissman College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, United States of America Simon Wessely Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, United Kingdom Hans-Ulrich Wittchen Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Germany Deborah Yurgelun-Todd McLean Hospital, United States of America