npj Mental Health Research

npj Mental Health Research is a fully open access peer-reviewed journal published by Nature Portfolio as part of the npj series, launched in 2022 and devoted to research on mental health disorders and well-being, and it holds a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 9.1（npj Mental Health Research）是自然出版集团（Nature Portfolio）旗下（npj）系列的完全开放获取同行评审期刊，2022 年创刊，专注精神健康障碍与福祉研究，2025 年影响因子为 9.1。

Scope

• The journal considers all aspects of research that aims to understand, diagnose and treat mental health disorders该刊收录旨在理解、诊断与治疗精神健康障碍的各方面研究。
• It also covers work that enhances overall well-being, builds resilience and promotes optimal functioning at individual and population levels也涵盖增强整体福祉、建立心理韧性并促进个体与群体层面最佳功能的研究。
• Topics include public and community mental health, mental health services research and mental health policy主题包括公共与社区精神健康、精神健康服务研究以及精神健康政策。
• Further topics are the social determinants of mental health and psychopharmacoepidemiology其他主题还有精神健康的社会决定因素与精神药物流行病学。
• It covers the pathophysiology of neuropsychiatric disorders and basic, preclinical and clinical research into their diagnosis and treatment该刊涵盖神经精神障碍的病理生理学，以及其诊断与治疗的基础、临床前与临床研究。
• The journal also welcomes new methodologies and technology-based interventions, including digital and mobile approaches该刊还欢迎新方法学与基于技术的干预，包括数字化与移动手段。
• It is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index and placed in the first quartile of the Psychiatry category, ranked 10th of 293 titles该刊被新兴来源引文索引（ESCI）收录，在精神病学类位居第一四分位，于 293 种刊中排名第 10。

History

• The journal was launched in 2022 as part of the npj series of Nature Portfolio open access journals该刊于 2022 年创刊，属（Nature Portfolio）的（npj）系列开放获取期刊。
• Its founding Editor-in-Chief Jack Tsai introduced the journal in an inaugural editorial in 2022其创刊主编 Jack Tsai 于 2022 年的创刊社论中介绍了该刊。^[1]
• It is online-only and carries a single electronic identifier, 2731-4251该刊为纯在线出版，仅有一个电子刊号 2731-4251。
• Articles are published under Creative Commons licenses, either CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND文章以知识共享许可协议发表，采用（CC BY）或（CC BY-NC-ND）许可。
• The article processing charge is 990 pounds, 1440 US dollars or 1190 euros, with waivers for authors from low-income countries其文章处理费为 990 英镑、1440 美元或 1190 欧元，来自低收入国家的作者可获减免。
• Its Journal Impact Factor stood at 9.1 in 2025其 2025 年影响因子为 9.1。
• More than half of the articles published in 2025 related to one or more of the seventeen United Nations Sustainable Development Goals2025 年发表的文章中超过半数与联合国十七项可持续发展目标中的一项或多项相关。

Editors

• Jack Tsai, a clinical psychologist at UTHealth Houston and Yale University, is the Editor-in-Chief主编 Jack Tsai 为得克萨斯大学休斯敦健康科学中心（UTHealth Houston）与耶鲁大学的临床心理学家。
• He is Campus Dean and Professor of Public Health at UTHealth and directs research at the US Department of Veterans Affairs National Center on Homelessness among Veterans他任（UTHealth）公共卫生学院院长与教授，并在美国退伍军人事务部全国退伍军人无家可归问题研究中心主持研究。
• Associate Editors include Umair Akram of the University of Lincoln, Elizabeth H. Connors of Yale University and Sinan Guloksuz of Maastricht University副编辑包括（University of Lincoln）的 Umair Akram、耶鲁大学的 Elizabeth H. Connors 与（Maastricht University）的 Sinan Guloksuz。
• Further Associate Editors are Hamidreza Jamalabadi of the University of Marburg, Eric Kuhn of Stanford University and Tatia Lee of the University of Hong Kong其他副编辑还有（University of Marburg）的 Hamidreza Jamalabadi、斯坦福大学的 Eric Kuhn 与（University of Hong Kong）的 Tatia Lee。
• They also include Sarah Lichenstein of Yale University, Feifan Liu of the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School and Ming-Rui Xia of Beijing Normal University还包括耶鲁大学的 Sarah Lichenstein、马萨诸塞大学陈医学院（University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School）的 Feifan Liu 与北京师范大学的 Ming-Rui Xia。
• The Associate Editors span psychiatry, clinical psychology, epidemiology, computational psychiatry, neuroimaging and artificial intelligence副编辑的研究覆盖精神病学、临床心理学、流行病学、计算精神病学、神经影像与人工智能。
• The journal is fully open access, and manuscripts are assessed under peer review by practising mental health researchers该刊为完全开放获取，稿件由在职精神健康研究者以同行评审方式评估。