The Lancet Psychiatry

The Lancet Psychiatry is a monthly peer-reviewed psychiatry and mental health journal published by Elsevier as part of the Lancet family and launched in June 2014, covering clinical research, reviews and comment across mental health, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 21.1《柳叶刀·精神病学》是由（Elsevier）出版、属于《柳叶刀》系列并于 2014 年 6 月创刊的精神病学与精神健康同行评审月刊，涵盖精神健康领域的临床研究、综述与评论，2025 年影响因子为 21.1。

Scope

• It is an authoritative forum for key opinion leaders in medicine, government and health systems to influence clinical practice and global policy该刊是医学、政府与卫生系统关键意见领袖影响临床实践与全球政策的权威平台。
• It publishes clinical research, expert reviews and comment and opinion in mental health该刊刊载精神健康领域的临床研究、专家综述以及评论与观点。
• Its topics include psychopharmacology, psychotherapy and psychosocial approaches to all psychiatric disorders across the life course其选题包括精神药理学、心理治疗，以及针对全生命周期各类精神障碍的心理社会干预。
• It covers innovative treatments and the biological research underpinning them, novel methods of service delivery and new ways of thinking about mental illness该刊报道创新疗法及其背后的生物学研究、新型服务提供方式，以及对精神疾病的新思考。
• It advocates strongly for the rights of people with mental health disorders and highlights the voices of service users该刊大力倡导精神健康障碍患者的权利，并突出服务使用者的声音。
• It aims to give a clear, independent perspective on practice-changing research shaping clinical psychiatry该刊致力于对塑造临床精神病学的实践变革性研究给出清晰、独立的视角。

History

• It was launched in print and online in June 2014, following earlier Lancet specialty journals such as The Lancet Oncology and The Lancet Neurology该刊于 2014 年 6 月以纸质与网络形式创刊，延续了更早的《柳叶刀》专科刊（如《柳叶刀·肿瘤学》与《柳叶刀·神经病学》）的传统。
• It was founded and edited from 2014 to 2021 by Niall Boyce该刊由 Niall Boyce 于 2014 年创办，并由他主编至 2021 年。
• Joan Marsh joined the Lancet group in November 2013 as Deputy Editor to help launch the journal, and became Editor-in-Chief in November 20212013 年 11 月 Joan Marsh 以副编辑身份加入《柳叶刀》团队协助创办该刊，并于 2021 年 11 月出任主编。
• It publishes landmark Commissions, such as the 2018 Lancet Psychiatry Commission on psychological treatments research in tomorrow's science该刊发表具有里程碑意义的委员会报告，如 2018 年《柳叶刀·精神病学》心理治疗研究委员会报告。^[1]
• Its Journal Impact Factor was 77.056 in 2022, 24.8 in 2024 and 21.1 in 2025其影响因子为 2022 年的 77.056、2024 年的 24.8 与 2025 年的 21.1。
• It is indexed in PubMed, MEDLINE, Web of Science with both SCIE and SSCI, and Scopus该刊被（PubMed）、（MEDLINE）、（Web of Science）的（SCIE）与（SSCI）以及（Scopus）收录。

Editors

• Its Editor-in-Chief is Joan Marsh, who read Natural Sciences at Cambridge University and holds a PhD in molecular biology其主编为 Joan Marsh，她在（Cambridge University）攻读自然科学并拥有分子生物学博士学位。
• Its founding Editor-in-Chief was Niall Boyce, a psychiatrist trained at Oxford University who joined The Lancet as a senior editor in 2010其创刊主编为 Niall Boyce，他是在（Oxford University）受训的精神科医师，2010 年以资深编辑身份加入《柳叶刀》。
• After leaving the journal in 2021, Niall Boyce became Head of Field Building for Mental Health at Wellcome2021 年离任后，Niall Boyce 转至（Wellcome）担任精神健康领域建设负责人。
• Sophia Davis is a senior editor of the journalSophia Davis 是该刊的资深编辑。
• Its editors host the journal's podcast In Conversation With, talking with authors about their research该刊编辑主持其播客（In Conversation With），与作者探讨其研究。