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  • Dykes Library

    The University of Kansas Medical Center library provides access to a great number of medical journals, alphabetically, by topic and by publisher.

  • FreeMedicalJournals.com

    This site includes only medical journals that provide full text. A useful option is a ranking of links by medical specialty.

  • PubMed full text articles

    The Medline database of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), but this link leads you to a subsets option where a pulldown menu lets you click on PubMed Central, which displays only articles available in full text. Handy if you want to find an article fast.

  • Raymon H. Mulford Library: Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences

    Instructions to authors for more than 3500 journals, virtually all with reasonable ratings. You can also download PDF files for the CONSORT criteria, which explain how a RCT should be interpreted. The Raymon H. Mulford Library is part of the Medical College of Ohio.


Top psychiatric journals (ranked by 2008 Impact Factor)top


Top 10 journals in general medicine (2008 Impact Factor)top


Journals about ADHD in adultstop

  • ADDitudemag.com

    Online publication for patients with a lot of interesting and up-to-date information about ADHD, also for professionals.

  • ADDvance

    Bimonthly patient publication for women and girls with ADD by the psychologists K.G. Nadeau and P.O. Quinn. A sample issue is available online.

  • ADHD Report, The

    R.A. Barkley et al., The Guilford Press, New York. Newsletter published six times a year, with useful information regarding recent research into your ADHD and the latest developments in America. Cannot be read online but can be ordered via this link.

  • American Journal of Psychiatry, The

    Abstracts of English language articles available by a keyword search.

  • Archives of General Psychiatry

    The complete texts of recent articles are available via keyword search (and for example, "ADHD and adults"), for a charge.

  • Attention! Magazine

    Publication of the American patient organization for ADHD, Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD). Can be ordered from this site; only the table of contents is available online.

  • PubMed

    Abstracts of English language articles available by a keyword search.


Journals about Anxiety Disorderstop

  • Anxiety, Stress and Coping

    A European publication which occasionally has good, clinically relevant articles.

  • Depression and Anxiety

    This twin publication (there is both a depression and an anxiety version) publishes nice articles about research into anxiety disorders as well as clinical experiences.

  • Journal of Anxiety Disorders

    As its title indicates, this journal is exclusively devoted to you anxiety disorders, principally research.


Journals about Bipolar disorderstop

  • Bipolar Disorders

    International journal covering new research and abstracts, basic mechanisms, clinical applications and treatment. Click on Table of Contents to see the contents since September 1999. Subscribers can view the contents online (see Online Version); nonsubscribers can obtain articles for a fee.


Journals about Depressiontop

  • Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

    Almost every issue of this Journal includes an article about mood disorders.

  • American Journal of Psychiatry

    Not an issue of this journal is published without an article about mood disorders. This monthly provides an accessible site; its search engine goes back to 1965. Includes a table of contents for the coming months. The references can be consulted free of charge; full text for a fee. Articles can be organised by subject and category and by question.

  • Archives of General Psychiatry

    Not an issue of this journal is published without an article about mood disorders. This monthly emphasises scientific articles. Free abstracts; full text available only to paid subscribers. The search function only goes back a couple of years but searches of all of the journals of the American Medical Association (JAMA and all Archives). You can receive the table of contents via e-mail.

  • British Journal of Psychiatry

    Not an issue of this journal is published without an article about mood disorders.

  • Depression and Anxiety

    Most of the articles in this Journal are about anxiety disorders, but it also regularly publishes articles about research into various aspects of depression.

  • Journal of Affective Disorders

    This journal is specifically devoted to mood disorders.


Journals about Evidence-based Medicine (EBM)top

  • Bandolier

    A Webzine with a lot of information about new developments in the area of EBM and reviews of the most important clinical articles (general medicine).

  • Evidence Based Mental Health

    Website of the Journal of the same name, begun in February 2001.

  • Health Evidence Bulletin Wales

    These bulletins provide concise abstracts of the 'best available evidence' regarding a number of core subjects, with references to the relevant articles.

     


Journals about ECTtop

  • The Journal of ECT

    The only journal devoted exclusively to ECT, published four times a year.   Since its first publication in1985, it has usually scooped the most recent research results. The site provides a table of contents for the issues published in the last two years.


Journals about First-line psychiatrytop

  • Doctors Guide

    An excellent site for keeping up with the latest publications.  If you click on All news, then Select the channel and then a topic, such as depression, anxiety or psychiatry other, you will get a list of recent articles with the journal and date of publication. You can then click on an article to read it in its entirety. You can also set up your own page preferences.

    The site is sponsored by various pharmaceutical industries and you are besieged by advertisements. The articles are from peer reviewed journals and not more than 60% are about the medication.  You can however click on New drugs for all of the recent registrations of medications in various countries. Or you can just ignore that information.

  • FreeMedicalJournals: BMJ en NEJM

    On this site you will find links to, among others, the British Medical Journal (BMJ, under Free journals) and the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM, under Free one to six months after publication).

  • General Hospital Psychiatry

    Journal at the intersection of of psychiatry, general hospital medicine, and general practice medicine. It embraces a biopsychosocial approach to illness and health and supports the concerns of psychiatry in general medicine. Unfortunately only the table of contents is available online but you can request a free sample copy.

  • International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine (IJPM). Biopsychosocial Aspects of Primary Care

    A good Journal that regularly publishes in the area oh first-line psychiatry. Editorials and abstracts are available on the site.  See also the links here.


Journals about Eating disorderstop


Journals about Pharmacotherapytop


Journals about Forensic psychiatrytop

  • International Journal of Forensic Mental Health

    This journal, first published in the spring of 2002, is available online from the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services (IAFMHS, see also Professional associations). The objective is to publish two issues a year. Publication is by peer review. It has an international editorial board which emphasizes empirical research as well as validation and international comparative research with forensic psychiatric patients, but also case studies, descriptions of forensic programmes and services, book reviews and discussion of new legislation. It seeks in particular articles which compare the practice and legislation in different countries, such as treatment, accountability, and risk evaluation.

    The  editorial director Stephen D. Hart  and Ronald Roesch,  both professors  at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Articles should be addressed to Prof. Roesch and should follow guidelines in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association APA.

  • International Journal of Law & Psychiatry (IJLP)

    The official organ of the American International Academy of Law & Mental Health (IALMH, see also the topic Professional associations). it is published six times a year and has now been in existence 25 years.


Journals about Family interventionstop

  • American Journal of Family Therapy

    The table of contents of the various issues can be consulted free of charge. If your institution subscribes to the journal you can also download articles. If not, you can order articles (by providing your credit card information) but that is expensive!

  • Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy (ANZJFT)

    A number of articles are available online but this site is especially interesting for its many links.

  • Family Process

    One of the best-known family therapy publications. Its former editor-in-chief, Carol Anderson is also well-known, particularly for her family interventions in schizophrenia. The site provides many links. You can search for articles and abstracts by keyword, author, or sentence fragment.  Every month there is also an important article that can be discussed online.

  • Journal of Family Psychology

    A journal of the American Psychological Association (APA). Provides tables of contents, abstracts, and research articles, of which many important ones can be downloaded in their entirety. Via Search the Journals (top right) and Journals ( click on) you will discover a treasure of other psychology publications. For example, a great deal of information is published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology.

  • Journal of Family Psychotherapy

    Information about and table of contents from this official organ of the International Family Therapy Association (IFTA, see also Associations and institutes, international).

  • Journal of Family Therapy

    Official organ of the Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice in the UK (AFT, see also Associations and institutes: International). Subscribers can consult the online edition. Non-subscribers must make do with the table of contents of the various editions and abstracts of articles and can search for articles. Little psychiatry.

  • Journal of Research on Adolescence

    Offers tables of contents, abstracts, and many links. Particularly recommended: the article We Know Some Things by Laurence Steinberg in the March 2001 issue (see below).

  • Journal of Research on Adolescence: We Know Some Things

    Steinberg, L. (2001) We Know Some Things: Parent-Adolescent Relationships in Retrospect and Prospect, Journal of Research on Adolescence, 11, 1-19.

    An interesting article about which parenting style works best with adolescents.


Journals about Child and Adolescent Psychiatrytop


Journals about psychiatry and the elderlytop

  • American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry (AJGP)

    Journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP, see also the topic Professional associations).  Published four times a year.  Includes original research, review articles, and book reviews in the area of geriatric psychiatry.

  • International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

    Considered by many to be the best geriatric psychiatry journal.  Published monthly, it includes original articles, review articles, letters to the editor, and book reviews, as well as short overviews of research published elsewhere.

  • International Psychogeriatrics

    Journal of the International Psychogeriatric Association (IPA, see also the topic Professional associations).  Published four times a year.  Includes original research, review articles, and book reviews in the area of geriatric psychiatry.


Journals about Personality disorderstop

  • Journal of Personality Disorders

    The table of contents going back many years can be consulted and some articles can even be read online free of charge.

  • PsycLine

    Interesting site about the most important professional journals, with direct links.  Recommended for every researcher.  Regularly updated.


Journals about Psychiatry and philosophytop

  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences

    General psychiatric journal in which you have a good chance of coming across an article with a philosophic aspect.

  • Comprehensive Psychiatry

    General psychiatric journal in which you have a good chance of coming across an article with a philosophic aspect.

  • Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. A European Journal

    The official organ of the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care (ESPMH).  Members receive the journal free of charge.

  • Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

    General psychiatric journal in which you have a good chance of coming across an article with a philosophic aspect

  • Philosophical Explorations

    Primarily written for and by philosophers, but oriented towards the social and neurosciences.

  • Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology

    Site of the most important journal on the subject by far (editors K.W.M. Fulford, J. Z. Sadler). The official organ of the American Association for the Advancement of Philosophy in Psychiatry (AAPP) and the English Philosophy Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatry. Published four times a year and characterised by an agreeable mix of review articles, theme issues, extensive book and article discussions defending a particular point of view, accompanied by critical comments very by others.  In the back of the journal one can find overviews of almost every relevant recent publication and conference, association, and workgroup in the area of psychiatry and philosophy.

  • The American Journal of Psychiatry

    General psychiatry journal which now and then publishes an article with a philosophical aspect.

  • The British Journal of Psychiatry

    General psychiatric journal which now and then publishes an article with a philosophic aspect.

  • The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy

    In recent years increasingly more focused on ethics.

  • The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

    General psychiatric journal in which you have a good chance of coming across an article with a philosophic aspect.

  • Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

    More epistemological and more attention to pre-clinical professions.


Journals about Mental disorders due to a medical conditiontop


Journals about Psychotherapytop

  • CatchWord

    A compendium of online journals and full text articles, including the European Journal of Psychotherapy, Counselling & Health (from 2000), International Journal of Group Psychotherapy (from 2000), International Journal of Psychotherapy (from 2000), Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (from 2002), Scandinavian Journal of Behaviour Therapy (from 1999), International Journal of Behavioral Medicine (from 2000).

  • Psychotherapy Research

    Prestigious on-line journal about psychotherapy research, from the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR). Abstracts of articles published in this journal are available free of charge; access to the full text is available for a fee.

  • The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (IJPA)

    The website of this prestigious international journal includes selected articles free of charge period. They can be downloaded (with WinZip).

  • IJPA discussion groups

    The discussion groups of the IJPA (see above) permit you to exchange opinions with authors published in the journal.


Journals about Sexual disorderstop

  • The Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality

    This internet journal is published by the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco.  It is frequently updated with the articles over a broad spectrum of subjects.

  • The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism

    Only a few professional publications specifically about sexuality provide free access to their content.  That is a pity, because the user is then dependent on more general resources.  Endocrinological publications are one place to find specifically medical studies about sexuality.  The pre-eminent Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism makes articles available free of charge a few months after first publication.  Specific subjects can be searched by keyword, for example sexual maturity and menopausal disorders.


Journals about Sleep disorderstop

  • Journal of Biological Rhythms

    Preeminent Journal with articles mainly at about fundamental research into biological rhythms, including sleep-wake rhythms.

  • Journal of Sleep Research (JSR)

    An important scientific journal for both basic and clinical research.  Sponsored by the European Sleep Research Society (ESRS -see also Associations).

  • Sleep

    Provides the table of contents of this prominent Journal of the American Academy the Sleep Medicine (AASM - see also Associations) and the Sleep Research Society.

  • Sleep Medicine

    A journal published since 2000 with articles primarily about clinical research.

  • Sleep Medicine Reviews

    Publishes good review articles about clinical topics.  Some issues are published on the Internet in their entirety.

  • Sleep Research Online (SRO)

    A scientific Internet journal.


Journals about Somatoform disorderstop

  • European Journal of Pain

    Journal of the EFIC, the European branch of the International Association for the Study of Pain.

  • General Hospital Psychiatry

    Journal with articles about the intersection of psychiatry, hospital medicine, and primary care medicine.  The journal emphasises a biopsychosocial approach to illness and health and supports the concerns of psychiatry in general medicine.  Alas only the table of contents is given, but you can request a free sample issue.

  • International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine

    This journal provides a forum for the advancement of psychosocial and biological theory, methods, and treatment applied to patient care.

  • Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology

    Multidisciplinary journal of the International Society of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology.

  • Journal of Psychosomatic Research

    Multidisciplinary journal that publishes research regarding all aspects of the relationship between psychology and medicine.

  • Pain

    This journal is one of the most important in the area of pain research. It is published by the International Association for the Study of Pain.

  • Psychosomatic Medicine

    International multidisciplinary journal of the American Psychosomatic Society. Publishes experimental and clinical research about various aspects of the links between social, psychological, and behavioural factors in relation to physical processes in humans and animals.

  • Psychosomatics

    Journal of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine. Publishes articles about subjects in the areas of psychiatry and general medicine.

  • Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

    Publishes editorials, review articles, and research in the area of psychotherapy at the intersection with medicine and behavioural science.


Journals about community psychiatrytop

  • Community Mental Health Journal

    An international journal that also includes European authors.

  • Psychiatric Services

    Journal dedicated to different aspects of mental health.  On this page the reader will find under at the heading health services an overview of all of the articles published in this journal in the area of social psychiatry.  Downside: the service only provides the titles of the articles.  There are no abstracts.

  • Psychiatric Times

    Articles published in this general interest journal in recent years are available online. Useful for acquiring a broad overview of psychiatry.

  • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

    A site which takes you to the table of contents of an important social psychiatry journal. Provides the table of contents for many years; from there abstracts and entire articles in PDF format can be requested.

  • The International Journal of Social Psychiatry

    Provides the table of contents for the last year.  Abstracts of the various articles are available.  There is a fee for the access to the full text version, or else a trip to the library will be necessary.


Journals about Mood disorderstop

  • Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

    There is hardly an issue of this journal that doesn't include an article about mood disorders.

  • American Journal of Psychiatry

    Not an issue of this monthly journal is published without an article about mood disorders.  It has a user-friendly site with a search function going back to 1965.  The table of contents for the coming months is very accessible.  The references can be seen free of charge; there's a fee for the text.  Articles can be sorted by subject and category (section).

  • Archives of General Psychiatry

    Not an issue of this journal fails to include an article about mood disorders. The emphasis in this monthly is on scientific articles. Free abstracts; full text only for paid subscribers. The search function goes back a few years in all journals of the American Medical Association (JAMA and its archives). You can receive the table of contents by e-mail.

  • Bipolar Disorders

    International Journal that publishes new and abstracted research, the basic mechanisms, clinic and treatment. Click on Table of Contents for the contents since September 1999.  The Journal is also available online to subscribers (see Online Version); nonsubscribers can acquire individual articles for a fee. 

  • British Journal of Psychiatry

    There is not an issue of this journal that does not include an article about mood disorders.

  • Journal of Affective Disorders

    This journal publishes specifically in the area of mood disorders.

  • The Journal of ECT

    The only journal dedicated exclusively to ECT.  It exists since 1985 and has since then has usually been the first to publish new research results.  Published four times a year.  This site provides the table of contents from the last two years.


Journals about Transcultural psychiatrytop

  • Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

    This journal aims to be an international and interdisciplinary forum for professionals in related disciplines such as medical and psychiatric anthropology, transcultural psychiatry, sociology and epidemiology.  Four times a year it publishes original research and theoretical articles in the aforementioned fields.

  • Transcultural Psychiatry

    An international and interdisciplinary journal (previously called Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review), published four times a year.  It means to be a bridge between clinicians who work in a multicultural settings and researchers in the areas of psychiatry, anthropology, and psychology.  Publishes original research, clinical reports, review articles, symposia summaries, book reviews, and announcements.

  • Transcultural Psychiatry Newsletter

    Annual newsletter of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) with announcements, symposia, and continuing education programmes.  Also short substantive articles about various topics in transcultural psychiatry.


Journals about Substance use disorderstop


Journals about Hospital psychiatrytop

  • General Hospital Psychiatry

    Journal with articles at the intersection of psychiatry, hospital medicine, and primary care. It emphasizes a biopsychosocial approach to illness and health, and supports the importance of psychiatry in general medicine. Alas there is only a table of contents to be seen, but you can also request a free sample copy.

  • Psychosomatic Medicine

    International, multidisciplinary journal of the American Psychosomatic Society. Publishes experimental and clinical research regarding various aspects of the links between social, psychological, and behavioural factors in relationship to physical processes in humans and animals.

  • Psychosomatics

    Journal of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine. Publishes articles in the areas of psychiatry and general medicine.


More about the Science Citation Index (SCI)top

The information about journal Internet sites in The Top 25 Psychiatric and The Top 10 Medical Journals sections is based on the Science Citation Index.

Scientific journals are assigned an impact factor.  It is calculated from the number of times a journal is cited in scientific articles.  An American company keeps detailed records and publishes the Science Citation Index once a year with the impact factor for many journals.  The assumption is that the more often a publication is cited, the more impact that journal has on science.

Source: Journal Citation Reports �€� Science Edition; IV Subject Category Listing.  The most recent report is for 2007. The sequence varies from year to year, though the Archives has been number one for many years.


Boeken en tijdschriften (in category: Emergency psychiatry)top

Handboek Spoedeisende Psychiatrie 

Redactie: R.A. Achilles, R.J. Beerthuis en W.M. van Ewijk.
Dit handboek biedt psychiaters en andere hulpverleners die werkzaam zijn in de 24-uurs crisisdiensten, de mogelijkheid zich te verdiepen in de theorie, de werkwijzen en de regels in de spoedeisende psychiatrie. Op systematische en wetenschappelijke wijze worden het hulpverleningstraject, de diagnostiek, de behandeling en de ethische dilemma's van de spoedeisende psychiatrie behandeld.

 

 Directieve interventies in de acute en de sociale psychiatrie

Auteur: Jenner, JA

Dit handboek geeft een overzicht van de therapeutische processen (met voornamelijk directief-psychotherapeutische, sociaalpsychiatrische en biologisch-psychiatrische elementen) die zich afspelen in de acute psychiatrie.


Journals (in category: Child and adolescent disorders)top


Journals & articles (in category: ADHD in adults)top

  • ADDitudemag.com

    Online magazine with interesting and up-to-date information about ADHD, also for professionals.

  • ADDvance

    Bimonthly publication for women and girls with ADD, by the psychologists K.G. Nadeau and P.O. Quinn. A free sample copy is available online.

  • ADHD Report, The

    R.A. Barkley et al., The Guilford Press, New York. Newsletter published six times a year. Provides useful information about recent ADHD research and the latest developments in America.  Print subscription may be purchased this link.

  • American Journal of Psychiatry, The

    Find abstracts of published articles by searching on keywords.

  • Archives of General Psychiatry

    Find the entire text of recent articles by searching on keywords (for example, "adhd and adults"), for a fee.

  • Attention! Magazine

    Publication of the American patient organisation for ADHD (CHADD).  Can be ordered via this site.  Only the table of contents is available online.

  • PubMed

    Find abstracts of all English-language medical publications by keyword search.


Journals (in category: Delirium and cognitive disorders)top


Journals (in category: Bipolar disorders)top

  • Bipolar Disorders

    Official journal of the International Society for Bipolar Disorders. Click on Table of Contents for issues since September 1999. Available online to subscribers; non-subscribers can purchase single articles.


Journals (in category: Depressive disorders)top

  • Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

    General psychiatry journal focusing on clinical practice.  Every issue includes one or more articles about depression.

  • Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

    Every issue of this journal includes at least one article about mood disorders.

  • American Journal of Psychiatry

    Not a month goes by without an article about mood disorders. The journal maintains a well-organised website and content search facilities back to 1844, and accessible table of contents of recent issues. Articles can be sorted and selected by subject and category. References can be consulted for free but there is a charge for full text articles.

  • Archives of General Psychiatry

    Every issue includes an article about mood disorders. This monthly emphasises scientific articles. Free abstracts, full text only for subscribers. The search engine goes back several years end includes all the pages of the American Medical Association (JAMA and related archives). Table of contents is available by email delivery.

  • British Journal of Psychiatry

    Every issue includes at least one article about mood disorders.

  • Depression and Anxiety

    This journal focuses mainly on anxiety disorders, but also regularly publishes articles about research relating to various aspects of depression.

  • Journal of Affective Disorders

    This journal is specifically oriented towards mood disorders.


cognitive impairment exercise and inflammation (in category: Delirium and cognitive disorders)top

Several neurodegenerative diseases are linked to inflammation. Interleukine 1β and TNF-α-related-apoptose-inducing ligand (TRAIL), and other cytokines are thought to be involved in the aetiology of Alzheimer's disease. This is also true for amyloid β which itself has inflammatory effects. The progression of neurodegeneration in neurodegenerative diseases is further promoted by systemic inflammation. In a complex manner physical activity is linked to immunity and inflammation.

  • Cognitive impairment, exercise and infammation

    In this Nature article the transcriptional coactivator PGC1α,  α factor that has recently been shown to regulate several exercise-associated aspects of muscle function, is proposed to control muscle plasticity, suppresses a broad inflammatory response and mediates the beneficial effects of exercise.