American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Aims & Scope

As the principal publication of the Global Alliance for Behavioral Health and Social Justice, the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry (AJO) reflects the Alliance’s goal of informing policy, practice, and research concerning behavioral health, social justice, and well-being.

Consistent with that mission, the journal publishes articles that clarify, challenge, or reshape the prevailing understanding of factors in the prevention and correction of injustice and in the sustainable development of a humane and just society.

AJO publishes theoretical, analytic, and empirical articles on topics related to the Alliance’s historic values and themes and that contain clear implications for clinical practice, prevention, public health, law, and/or social policy.

AJO is an interdisciplinary journal, publishing the work of scholars and researchers in anthropology, criminology, law, nursing, psychiatry, psychology, social work, sociology, public administration, public health, and other disciplines.

Contemporary topics in AJO’s topical scope include, but are not limited to, public behavioral health and prevention; institutional reform; causes and solutions to behavioral healthcare disparities; adaption of behavioral health methods to the needs of racial, ethnic, cultural and other minority groups; responses to natural and human-made disasters; immigrants and refugees; underserved behavioral health populations; protection of vulnerable people; and sociocultural dimensions of behavioral health problems.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2.1
2024	2.30

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	1.068

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	4329

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	634

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Abstracting & Indexing

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

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities, Medicine and Psychology, 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.

• Psychosocial resilience and protective mechanisms.

  Citation: 2999

  Authors: Michael

• Attachment and loss: Retrospect and prospect.

  Citation: 1876

  Authors: John

• The traumatic impact of child sexual abuse: A conceptualization.

  Citation: 1264

  Authors: David, Angela

• The social ecology of resilience: Addressing contextual and cultural ambiguity of a nascent construct.

  Citation: 1066

  Authors: Michael

• The epidemiology of co-occurring addictive and mental disorders: Implications for prevention and service utilization.

  Citation: 1021

  Authors: Ronald C., Christopher B., Katherine A., Mark J., Richard G., Philip J.

• A multidimensional conceptualization of racism-related stress: Implications for the well-being of people of color.

  Citation: 976

  Authors: Shelly P.

• Prevalence and correlates of depression, anxiety, and suicidality among university students.

  Citation: 922

  Authors: Daniel, Sarah E., Ezra, Jennifer L.

• High-risk children in young adulthood: A longitudinal study from birth to 32 years.

  Citation: 699

  Authors: Emmy E.

• Self-mutilation in clinical and general population samples: Prevalence, correlates, and functions.

  Citation: 641

  Authors: John, Eliana

• Some implicit common factors in diverse methods of psychotherapy.

  Citation: 589

  Authors: Saul

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