Psychiatric Genetics

Aims & Scope

​​​​​​The journal aims to publish papers which bring together clinical observations, psychological and behavioural abnormalities and genetic data.

All papers are fully refereed.

Psychiatric Genetics is also a forum for reporting new approaches to genetic research in psychiatry and neurology utilizing novel techniques or methodologies.

Psychiatric Genetics publishes original Research Reports dealing with inherited factors involved in psychiatric and neurological disorders.

This encompasses gene localization and chromosome markers, changes in neuronal gene expression related to psychiatric disease, linkage genetics analyses, family, twin and adoption studies, and genetically based animal models of neuropsychiatric disease.

The journal covers areas such as molecular neurobiology and molecular genetics relevant to mental illness.

Reviews of the literature and Commentaries in areas of current interest will be considered for publication.

Reviews and Commentaries in areas outside psychiatric genetics, but of interest and importance to Psychiatric Genetics, will also be considered.

Psychiatric Genetics also publishes Book Reviews, Brief Reports and Conference Reports.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.4
2024	1.50

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.468

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	65

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	12259

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.

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Medicine and Neuroscience, 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.

• Genetic origins of anxiety in women: a role for a functional catechol-O-methyltransferase polymorphism

  Citation: 213

  Authors: Mary-Anne, Ke, Erica, Claudia R., David

• Meta-analysis of serotonin transporter polymorphisms and affective disorders

  Citation: 203

  Authors: Francis E., Bruce G.

• Amino acid substitution in the dopamine D3 receptor as a useful polymorphism for investigating psychiatric disorders

  Citation: 184

  Authors: L., P., M.-P., C., B., E., G., J.-C.

• Autism spectrum disorders in Prader???Willi and Angelman syndromes: a systematic review

  Citation: 184

  Authors: Marijcke W.M., Ellen E., Patrick F.

• A sociability gene? Meta-analysis of oxytocin receptor genotype effects in humans

  Citation: 178

  Authors: Marian J., Marinus H.

• Dopamine system genes and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a meta-analysis

  Citation: 175

  Authors: Brion S., Mary L., Robert E., Michael M.

• Confirmation of association of the GABRA2 gene with alcohol dependence by subtype-specific analysis

  Citation: 148

  Authors: Christoph, Thomas, Andre, Kirsten P., Ion, Christoph, Norbert, Lutz G., Armin

• Familial occurrence of primary premature ejaculation

  Citation: 141

  Authors: M. D., M., M. M., M. W., B.

• Paternal age and intelligence: implications for age-related genomic changes in male germ cells

  Citation: 129

  Authors: Dolores, Avi, Mark, Shmuel, Michael, Susan, Rachel, Jonathan, Ezra, Haim Y.

• Polygenic risk score for schizophrenia is more strongly associated with ancestry than with schizophrenia

  Citation: 119

  Authors: David

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