Indian Journal of Psychiatry
# Indian Journal of Psychiatry

The Indian Journal of Psychiatry is a monthly peer-reviewed open access medical journal. It is published by Medknow Publications on behalf of the Indian Psychiatric Society. It covers research in all fields of psychiatry.

## History

The journal was established in 1949 as the Indian Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry and obtained its present name in 1958. The editor-in-chief is Om Prakash Singh The following persons have been editors-in-chief:

* N. N. De (1949–1951)
* L. P. Verma (1951–1958)
* A. N. Bardhan (1958–1960)
* M. R. Vachha (1961–1967)
* A. Venkoba Rao (1968–1976)
* B. B. Sethi (1977–1984)
* S. M. Channabasavanna (1985–1988)
* A. K. Agarwal (1989–1992)
* K. Kuruvilla (1993–1996)
* J. K. Trivedi (1997–2002)
* U. Goswami (2003)
* T. S. S. Rao (2004)
* N. G. Desai (2005–2006)
* T. S. S. Rao (2007-2018)
* G. Swaminath (2007)
* T. S. Sathyanarayana

## Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus, EBSCO databases, Expanded Academic ASAP, and InfoTrac.

## Retraction

In 2016, the journal retracted a 2013 supplementary paper because it plagiarized a Wikipedia article.

