Advances in Mental Health

Aims & Scope

Advances in Mental Health: Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention is a contemporary peer-reviewed journal for advancing promotion, prevention and early intervention approaches to mental health.

Advances in Mental Health's readership includes mental health practitioners, researchers, students, lecturers, clinicians, nurses, social workers, carers, mediators, counsellors, consumers, commentators and policy developers.

The Editors welcome original research articles, literature reviews, journal abstracts and reviews of relevant multimedia products.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.7
2024	1.40

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.535

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	10869

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	119

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Medicine, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Relational recovery: beyond individualism in the recovery approach

  Citation: 242

  Authors: Rhys, Angela, Brad

• Universal online interventions might engage psychologically distressed university students who are unlikely to seek formal help

  Citation: 183

  Authors: Megan L, Ian M, Helen M

• Mental health stigma update: A review of consequences

  Citation: 137

  Authors: Amy E, Jason D, Nina A

• The effects of need for autonomy and preference for seeking help from informal sources on emerging adults’ intentions to access mental health services for common mental disorders and suicidal thoughts

  Citation: 88

  Authors: Coralie J, Debra J, John A, Peter, Susan J

• Job stress as a preventable upstream determinant of common mental disorders: A review for practitioners and policy-makers

  Citation: 82

  Authors: Anthony D, Tessa, Amber M, Aleck

• Parents’ experience of seeking help for children with mental health problems

  Citation: 73

  Authors: Erica, Debra

• Measuring adolescent dating violence: Development of ‘conflict in adolescent dating relationships inventory’ short form

  Citation: 61

  Authors: Liria, Christine, Abby L

• ReachOut.com: The role of an online service for promoting help-seeking in young people

  Citation: 54

  Authors: Philippa J, Atari T, Justine C, Michelle E, Helen E, Kitty, Jane M

• An investigation into the effectiveness of sensory modulation in reducing seclusion within an acute mental health unit

  Citation: 51

  Authors: Chris, Robert, Tawanda

• Not just a run in the park: a qualitative exploration of parkrun and mental health

  Citation: 50

  Authors: Paul, Helen

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