BJPsych International

BJPsych International is the Royal College of Psychiatrists' quarterly on global mental health, published by Cambridge University Press and carrying its present title since 2015. It reports on services and policy in low- and middle-income countries, and its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9, JCR Psychiatry Q3 (187/293) within the Emerging Sources Citation Index.《英国精神病学国际版》是英国皇家精神科医学院主办的国际精神卫生季刊，由剑桥大学出版社出版，2015 年起使用现名。该刊报道中低收入国家的服务与政策，2025 年期刊影响因子为 1.9，在 JCR 精神病学类目（ESCI）列 Q3，排名 187/293。

Scope

• Mental health is treated as a global question, and services, law and training receive as much room in its pages as the clinical description of illness does.该刊把精神卫生当作全球性问题处理，服务，法律与培训在版面上与临床描述占据同样的位置。

• Low- and middle-income countries supply most of its material, since that is where the burden of untreated disorder is heaviest and the specialist workforce thinnest, and where a short report helps most.中低收入国家提供了该刊大部分内容，那里的未治疗疾病负担最重，专科人力最薄，短篇报告也最有用。

• Service models get close attention, and a paper may describe how a district team is staffed, what it costs and what it manages to reach in practice.服务模式受到细致关注，论文可以描述一支地区团队如何配备人员，花费多少，以及实际能覆盖到哪些人。

• Task-sharing runs through much of the work, with community workers and primary care staff carrying tasks that a psychiatrist would hold elsewhere, and it asks what such arrangements cost.任务转移贯穿许多论文，社区卫生员与基层医务人员承担在别处由精神科医生承担的工作，该刊也会追问这类安排的成本。

• Cross-cultural psychopathology is a standing interest, so idioms of distress, local categories of illness and the reach of diagnostic manuals all come up for discussion, often with case material from several countries.跨文化精神病理学是长期议题，痛苦的地方表达方式，疾病的本地分类与诊断手册的适用范围都会被讨论，并常配有多国的病例材料。

• Comparisons across countries appear often, and a study may set the treated prevalence of one disorder against figures from a neighbouring system with a similar income level.跨国比较时常出现，研究可以把某一疾病的治疗现患率与收入水平相近的邻国体系对照。

• Policy and legislation are within scope, and mental health law, rights-based reform and the financing of care are all treated as fit subjects rather than as background.政策与立法在范围之内，精神卫生法，以权利为本的改革与照护筹资都被当作正当选题处理。

• Workforce questions get steady coverage, from the training of psychiatrists and nurses to the migration of clinicians out of the countries that trained them, which leaves gaps behind.人力问题得到持续报道，从精神科医生与护士的培养，到临床人员离开培养他们的国家并留下空缺。

• Stigma and suicide prevention belong to the public health side, and the journal carries accounts of campaigns, registers and national strategies that have been tried, together with what they measured.污名与自杀预防属于公共卫生一侧，该刊刊登运动，登记系统与国家策略的实施记述，也写出它们测量了什么。

• Humanitarian settings are covered as well, and papers follow mental health work in conflict, displacement and the aftermath of disaster, where ordinary services have collapsed and outside agencies step in.人道主义情境同样在覆盖范围之内，论文追踪冲突，流离失所与灾害之后的精神卫生工作，那里常规服务已经瓦解，外部机构随之介入。

• Child and adolescent mental health has its own place, and a paper may weigh a school programme against the resources a poor district can spare for it.儿童与青少年精神卫生自有其位置，论文可以权衡一项学校项目与贫困地区所能匀出的资源。

• Substance use and physical comorbidity are handled together with psychiatric disorder, since in most settings the three present in the same consultation, often to a clinician with no specialist training.物质使用与躯体共病和精神障碍放在一起处理，因为在多数地方，这三者出现在同一次门诊中，接诊者常常没有专科训练。

• Digital and remote care now appears regularly, and telepsychiatry, mobile tools and online training are examined for what they add in places short of specialists, and for what they miss.数字与远程照护如今常规出现，远程精神医学，移动工具与在线培训既被考察在专科医生不足之处的补益，也被考察其遗漏。

• Brevity is a house rule, and the journal prefers a short paper that reports one finding clearly to a long one that buries it under needless detail, so authors are asked to cut.简短是刊物的成规，一篇清楚报告单一发现的短论文，胜过把同一发现埋在冗长细节里的长文，作者因而被要求删减。

• Readers are clinicians and planners rather than specialists in one technique, and the writing is kept plain enough for a ministry office as well as a ward.读者是临床人员与规划者，其文字保持平实，病房与部委办公室都读得下去。

History

• The title descends from International Psychiatry, the quarterly bulletin that the Royal College of Psychiatrists ran for members working outside the United Kingdom, and for those who asked about services abroad.该刊源自《International Psychiatry》，那是英国皇家精神科医学院为在海外工作的会员所办的季刊通讯。

• Volumes of that bulletin ran from 2004, four issues a year, and it carried short accounts of services in countries where College members worked, usually written by the people running them.旧刊自 2004 年起按卷发行，每年四期，刊登学院会员所在国家服务状况的短篇记述，多由经办者自己执笔。

• The last volume under the old name was the eleventh, in 2014, and the change of title came with a new pair of ISSNs registered for print and online.旧名之下最后一卷是 2014 年的第 11 卷，改名同时登记了新的印刷版与电子版刊号。

• The relaunch in 2015 kept the volume count running, so the first issue under the new title was volume 12, number 1, dated February, the point at which the National Library of Medicine begins its holdings.2015 年的改版延续卷号，新名之下第一期是第 12 卷第 1 期，标为 2 月出版，美国国家医学图书馆的馆藏记录也从这一期起算。

• The renaming marked a shift in ambition, as global mental health grew into a field with its own evidence base, funding lines and journals, and the old bulletin format no longer fitted it.改名标志着抱负的转变，全球精神卫生逐渐成为一个有自身证据基础，经费渠道与期刊的领域，旧通讯的形制已不合用。

• For its first four years the new journal was published from London by the College itself, and library imprints still record that arrangement as running from 2015 to 2018.最初四年新刊由学院在伦敦自行出版，图书馆的出版项记录把这段安排记到 2018 年。

• Cambridge University Press took over the imprint in 2019, and the journal has since appeared under the Cambridge Core platform and the College's publishing agreement, which also covers its other titles.剑桥大学出版社于 2019 年接手出版，该刊此后在剑桥核心平台与学院出版协议之下发行，同一协议也覆盖学院的其他刊物。

• From 2025 the journal is online only, reached through Cambridge Core or the BJPsych Journals app, and the printed edition has been retired, which the College announced as a change of format.2025 年起该刊只出网络版，经剑桥核心或 BJPsych Journals 应用访问，纸本已经停印，学院把这次调整称为形制变更。

• Four issues a year have been the pattern throughout, and each annual volume closes at number four, so a year and a volume still coincide, as the publisher's own records show.每年四期的格局一直未变，每卷收于第 4 期，年份与卷次仍然一一对应。

• Volume 19 carried the issues of 2022 and volume 22 those of 2025, and counting backwards on that four-issues-a-year rhythm puts the first volume of the line in 2004, when the bulletin started.第 19 卷对应 2022 年的各期，第 22 卷对应 2025 年，按每年一卷的节奏倒推，这条卷号线的第 1 卷落在 2004 年，也就是旧通讯创刊的那一年。

• The journal is fully open access, and the Journal Citation Reports record gold open access at 100 per cent of its output, so a paper is free to read from the day it appears.该刊实行完全开放获取，《期刊引证报告》把它的金色开放获取比例记为百分之百，论文自上线之日起即可免费阅读。

• It sits in the Emerging Sources Citation Index rather than the Science Citation Index Expanded, and its Journal Impact Factor rose from 1.4 for 2024 to 1.9 for 2025, which placed it in the third quartile.该刊属于新兴来源引文索引，不在科学引文索引扩展版之内，影响因子从 2024 年的 1.4 升到 2025 年的 1.9，位列第三四分位。

• Output is small, around twenty research and review items a year, and the citation total stands near 650 with a cited half-life of five years, which suits a field journal.年发文量不大，研究与综述合计约 21 篇，总被引接近 650 次，被引半衰期为 5 年，这一体量与领域刊的定位相称。

Editors

• Editorial authority runs in two layers, since the College Editor answers for the whole publishing portfolio while an editor-in-chief answers for this journal, with a board beside each post.编辑权分作两层，学院编辑对整个出版组合负责，本刊则由一位主编负责，两层各有编委会协助。

• That post has been held since 2023 by Gin Malhi of the University of Sydney, who is also editor-in-chief of the British Journal of Psychiatry, the College's flagship monthly.学院编辑一职自 2023 年起由悉尼大学的（Gin Malhi）担任，他同时是《英国精神病学杂志》的主编。

• Day-to-day work on BJPsych International falls to its own editor-in-chief, who is supported by an editorial board and a small journal office at the College's London headquarters.本刊的日常事务由自己的主编主持，编委会与学院伦敦总部的小型编辑部予以协助。

• The College states that it grants editorial freedom and independence to the editor-in-chief, and decisions on individual papers rest with the journal, not with the publisher or the College.学院声明给予主编编辑自由与独立，单篇论文的取舍由刊物自行决定，与出版方或学院无关。

• Manuscripts go through single anonymous peer review, so reviewers know who wrote the paper while authors do not learn who reviewed it, which the journal's own guidance explains.稿件采用单盲同行评审，评审人知道作者是谁，作者则不知道评审人的身份，刊物的评审说明对此有交待。

• Reviewers are chosen for their knowledge of the subject, and their reports go to the editor, who weighs them before a decision is sent to the author in writing.评审人按对选题的熟悉程度挑选，评审报告交到编辑手中，编辑权衡之后才把决定书面告知作者。

• Board membership is listed on the publisher's journal pages, and the list is refreshed as appointments change, so the current composition can be checked at any time.编委会名单公布在出版方的刊物页面上，名单随聘期更新，现届构成可以随时查对。

• The journal states that its material does not necessarily reflect the views of the editor-in-chief or of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and the wording is standard.刊物声明其内容不一定代表主编或英国皇家精神科医学院的观点，这一措辞写在刊物的说明页上。

• Accepted articles may be selected for press release by the author's institution or by College media, and embargo rules then apply to any coverage, as elsewhere in the group.被接收的论文可能由作者所在机构或学院媒体选送新闻稿，随后报道须遵守禁发期规定，学院的其他刊物也是如此。

• Submissions are screened for plagiarism before review, and the journal's ethics guidance points authors to the College's policy on research conduct, which sets out the College's expectations of authors.稿件在送审之前接受查重，刊物的伦理指引把作者引向学院的科研行为规范，那里列出学院对作者的要求。

• The journal takes no advertising at present, and its pages carry editorials, research and reviews without commercial slots between them, as the College notes on its list of titles.该刊目前不接受广告，版面上是社论，研究与综述，中间不插商业版面，学院在刊物一览里说明了这一点。

• Authors submit through the publisher's online system, and the journal's instructions set out word limits for each article type and the format for references, together with the declarations each paper must carry.作者经出版方的在线系统投稿，投稿须知按文章类型列出字数上限，并规定参考文献格式与每篇论文须附的声明。