2026 Media Kit
Psychiatric Genetics
Format
Print and Online
Website
Specialty
Genetics; Psychiatry w/Addiction
Audience
Psychiatrists, geneticists
Content Focus
The journal aims to publish papers which bring together clinical observations, psychological and behavioural abnormalities and genetic data. All papers are fully refereed.
Psychiatric Genetics is also a forum for reporting new approaches to genetic research in psychiatry and neurology utilizing novel techniques or methodologies. Psychiatric Genetics publishes original Research Reports dealing with inherited factors involved in psychiatric and neurological disorders. This encompasses gene localization and chromosome markers, changes in neuronal gene expression related to psychiatric disease, linkage genetics analyses, family, twin and adoption studies, and genetically based animal models of neuropsychiatric disease. The journal covers areas such as molecular neurobiology and molecular genetics relevant to mental illness.
Impact Factor
1.4
Impact Factor Ranking
154/191 in Genetics & Heredity category
277/314 in Neurosciences category
Editor-in-Chief
Andrew McQuillin
Frequency
6 issues in 2025; 4 issues in 2026
Advertising Guidelines
Subject to approval by Editor. New copy must be received by the Publisher two weeks before closing date.