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Journal overview

Aims and scope:

Clinical Medicine Insights: Psychiatry is an international, open access, peer reviewed journal which considers manuscripts on all aspects of the diagnosis, management and prevention of psychiatric disorders, in addition to related genetic, pathophysiological and epidemiological topics.

Former title:

Prior to 1/1/2010 this journal was titled Clinical Medicine: Psychiatry (ISSN 1178-6590.) 

Editorial standards and procedures:

Submissions, excluding editorials, letters to the editor and dedications, will be peer reviewed by two reviewers.  Reviewers are required to provide fair, balanced and constructive reports.  

Under our Fairness in Peer Review Policy authors may appeal against reviewers' recommendations which are ill-founded, unobjective or unfair.  Appeals are considered by the Editor in Chief or Associate Editor.

Papers are not sent to peer reviewers following submission of a revised manuscript. Editorial decisions on re-submitted papers are based on the author's response to the initial peer review report.

Indexing:

This journal is indexed by:

• Google Scholar 
• OAIster
  

National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy compliant:

As of April 7 2008, the US NIH Public Access Policy requires that all peer reviewed articles resulting from research carried out with NIH funding be deposited in the Pubmed Central archive.

If you are an NIH employee or grantee Libertas Academica will ensure that you comply with the policy by depositing your paper at Pubmed Central on your behalf. 

Information for authors

Call for papers:

Read the Editor in Chief's latest call for papers here.

Submission types accepted:

Submissions of the following types of manuscripts are accepted:

• Original research articles.
• Reviews: comprehensive, authoritative, descriptions of any subject within the journal's scope. They may cover basic science and clinical reviews, ethics, pro/con debates, and equipment reviews.
• Commentaries: focused and opinionated articles on any subject within the journal's scope. These articles are usually related to a contemporary issue.
• Hypotheses: articles that present an original hypothesis backed solely by previously published results rather than any new evidence. They should outline significant progress in thinking that would also be testable.
• Letters to the Editor: these can be either a re-analysis of a previously published article, or a response to such a re-analysis from the authors of the original publication.
• Methodology articles: these discuss a new experimental method, test or procedure. The article must describe a demonstrable advance on what is currently available. The method needs to have been well tested and ideally, but not necessarily, used in a way that proves its value.
• Short reports: brief reports of data from original research.
• Meeting reports: a report pertaining to activity at a meeting or conference Articles published in this journal are immediately available without delay upon publication and enjoy substantial visibility.
• Case reports: reports of clinical cases that can be educational, describe a diagnostic or therapeutic dilemma, suggest an association, or present an important adverse reaction. Case reports must meet appropriate ethical standards.

All submissions are subject to prompt, objective and fair peer review in compliance with our Fairness in Peer Review Policy.  Copyright in published articles remains with the author(s).  Authors are continually informed of the progress of their paper and our staff are friendly and responsive. 

One author recently wrote: "I would like to say that this is the most author-friendly editing process I have experienced in over 150 publications. Thank you most sincerely."

Criteria for publication: 

Publication is dependent on peer reviewers' judgement of papers.  Reviewers are asked to provide thoughtful and unbiased feedback to authors to ensure that the conclusions of papers are valid and manuscripts achieve reasonable standards of scholarliness and intelligibility. 

Previous work in the field must be acknowledged and papers should read without unreasonable difficulty.  Papers should fit comfortably within the scope of the journal.

Reviewers are asked to act in a fair, objective and constructive manner which maintains quality standards and helps authors to communicate their research.  They are instructed that in areas of genuinely novel research issues may be raised which cannot immediately be resolved and that absolutely rigorous validation of data may therefore not be possible. 

More information on the role of peer reviewers is available on the information for reviewers page.  Where authors consider that reviewers have made recommendations which are unreasonable, unobjective or ill-founded they may appeal them to the Editor in Chief or Associate Editor under our Fairness in Peer Review Policy.

Articles submitted to other journals:

We are willing to consider papers which have been peer reviewed by other journals but not accepted for publication. 

Services for authors:

Prior to peer review of your paper we can:

• Have your paper's reference style revised to meet our requirements,
• Have your paper's English revised by specialist English-speaking technical editors.

After peer review of your paper we can:

• Have your paper revised in accordance with peer reviewer's recommendations and have a summary of responses to the reviewers created by our specialist external substantive editors,
• Provide bound reprints of your article in colour or black and white ,
• Provide online-early rapid publication if your paper prior to typesetting.

What other authors have said:

Libertas Academica actively requests, receives and acts upon feedback from authors, readers and editorial boards.  Here's what some recent authors have said about us:

"Within a couple of days the reviewers had been procured and the manuscript was out."

"The communication between your staff and me has been terrific.  Whenever progress is made with the manuscript, I receive notice.  Quite honestly, I've never had such complete communication with a journal."

"LA is different, and hopefully represents a kind of scientific publication machinery that removes the hurdles from free flow of scientific thought."

Article processing fees:

All submissions to this journal are subject to an article processing fee if they are accepted for publication.  Article processing fees are used to fund the processing of your paper and development of the journal.  Article processing fees are the only compulsory charge you will face and do not vary according to word count, page count, colour figures or any other factor.  There is no additional charge for the author(s) to make any use of their article and no charge to readers to access it.

Full fee waivers are available for authors working in undeveloped nations and partial discounts of 20-50% are available to authors in other nations.  Authors must be able to verifiably demonstrate their suitability for a discount or waiver.  Availability of waivers and discounts is subject to monthly availability and is given at the publisher's discretion.  Waivers and discounts must be applied for prior to submission.  Neither are available after submission.

Register as a peer reviewer:

Do you wish to register as a peer reviewer?  Or are you already a registered peer reviewer but you need to update your contact details?   To register or update your details visit the peer reviewer registration form. 

Applicants must be able to demonstrate at least five years of continuous experience in the journal's subject area including at least two in the previous 24 months.

Editor in Chief profile

Dr Jaswinder Kaur Ghuman is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics and Director of the Infant and Preschool Program at the University of Arizona College of Medicine and Department of Psychiatry at the Arizona Health Sciences Center. Dr. Ghuman received her M.B., B.S. (M.D.) degree in 1973 from the Christian Medical College, Punjab University, India. She completed her general psychiatry training at Rochester Psychiatric Center and Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. She received her Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship training at the Johns Hopkins University from 1986-1988.

Dr Ghuman is the author of over thirty-four peer reviewed journal articles and numerous book chapters, and peer reviewed abstracts and presentations. Dr. Ghuman has received funding from NIMH to conduct research in preschool psychopathology, Autistic Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. She serves as a grant reviewer for NIH and provides peer-reviews for manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Pharmacology and Pediatrics. The Governor of Maryland appointed Dr. Ghuman to the Advisory Council on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

>> Dr Ghuman's latest call for papers

Editorial Board

Michael G Aman, PhD
Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, The Nisonger Center of Excellence for Developmental Disabilities, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

Ottavio Arancio, PhD MD
Assistant Professor, Dept of Pathology and Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University, New York City, NY, USA

Donald W. Black, MD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA

Rhonda C. Boyd, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia & University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Mark D. Brennan, PhD
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA

Jean Crowell Beckham, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA

Peter Theodosis Daniolos, MD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Behavioral Sciences and Pediatrics, The George Washington University Medical Cetner, Division of Behavioral Medicine (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry), Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA

Sanju George, MRCPsych
Consultant addiction psychiatrist, Addiction Psychiatry, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Trust, Birmingham, England, UK

Debra Houry, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education Director, Center of Injury Control, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Paramjit T. Joshi, MD
Endowed Professor & Chair, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Children's National Medical Center, Professor of Psychiatry, Behavioral Sciences & Pediatrics, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington DC, USA

Scott H. Kollins, PhD
Associate Professor, Director, Duke ADHD Program, Department of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA

Susan G. Kornstein, MD
Professor of Psychiatry and Obstetrics/Gynecology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA

Christopher J. Kratochvil, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Pediatrics, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA

Nan M. Laird, PhD
Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

Douglas Lawrence Delahanty, PhD
Professor, Pyschology Dept., Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA

William B. Lawson, MD, PhD, DFAPA
Professor and Chair, Director Mood Research Program, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Howard University College of Medicine and Hospital, Washington D.C., USA

John E. Lochman, PhD, ABPP
Professor and Doddridge Saxon Chairholder in Clinical Psychology Department of Psychology The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA

Vishal Madaan, MD, MBBS
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychaitry, Department of Psychiatry, Creighton University Medical Centre, Omaha, NE, USA 

Francisco A. Moreno, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

David A. Mrazek, MD, FRC Psych.
Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

Benoit H. Mulsant, MD, MS, FRCPC
Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Physician-in-Chief, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Deborah A. Pearson, PhD
Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA

Mark A. Riddle, MD
Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Director, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences School of Medicine Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Uma Rao, MD
Professor of Psychiatry, Sarah M. and Charles E. Seay Chair in Child Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

Linmarie Sikich, MD, MA
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Director ASPIRE Research Program, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Wendy K. Silverman, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA

Madhukar H. Trivedi, MD
Professor of Psychiatry, Betty Jo Hay Distinguished Chair in Mental Health Lydia Bryant Test Professorship in Psychiatric Research Director, Mood Disorders Research Program & Clinic Co-PI NIMH Depression Trials Network Univ. Of Texas Southwestern Medical School Exchange Park American General Tower, Dallas, TX, USA

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