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Australasian Psychiatry
H-index 15

Australasian Psychiatry

1039-8562

Published by: SAGE

https://journals.sagepub.com/home/apy

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Psychology 537 52 94 13
Medicine 2361 37 141 10

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 117
Documents by Best Scientists*: 236
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 9
SCIMAGO H-index: 49
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.514
Impact Factor: 1.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Australasian Psychiatry?

The primary areas of discussion in the journal are Psychiatry, Mental health, Nursing, Clinical psychology and MEDLINE. The work on Psychiatry tackled in Australasian Psychiatry brings together disciplines like Psychotherapist and Suicide prevention. The studies on Mental health discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Psychological intervention, Health care, Service (business) and Family medicine.

The study on Nursing presented in it intersects with the topics under Medical education.

  • Psychiatry (38.25%)
  • Mental health (26.91%)
  • Nursing (17.41%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Healing traditions: culture, community and mental health promotion with Canadian Aboriginal peoples (390 citations)
  • Solastalgia: The Distress Caused by Environmental Change (388 citations)
  • Second National Mental Health Plan (133 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Australasian Psychiatry:

The journal papers mainly deal with areas of study such as Mental health, Psychiatry, Nursing, Clinical psychology and Mental illness. The featured Mental health studies in the most cited articles mainly concentrate on Psychological intervention but also cover areas of interest in Intervention (counseling). Issues in Psychiatry were discussed in the journal articles, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Suicide prevention and MEDLINE.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Law
  • Internal medicine
  • World War II

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Australasian Psychiatry investigates areas of study like Psychiatry, Mental health, Nursing, 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak and Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Mental illness, Schizophrenia, Psychosis, Anxiety and Depression (differential diagnoses) are some of the facets of Psychiatry tackled in the journal. The featured Mental health works encompass concepts such as Mental health care and examines them in conjunction with Pandemic.

Among the topics covered in it are Pandemic as well as the fields of Telehealth and Burnout. Discussions in the journal are anchored in the subject of Nursing and the similar topic of Mental health service. It connects the study in 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak with the closely related area of MEDLINE.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Burnout and psychological distress amongst Australian healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. (31 citations)
  • Flattening the curve of COVID-19 for medical education in psychiatry and addiction medicine. (5 citations)
  • Increased Australian outpatient private practice psychiatric care during the COVID-19 pandemic: usage of new MBS-telehealth item and face-to-face psychiatrist office-based services in Quarter 3, 2020. (3 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Australasian Psychiatry (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Saxby Pridmore (85 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
  • David J. Castle (70 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Jeffrey C.L. Looi (69 papers) published 24 papers at the last edition, 13 more than at the previous edition,
  • Garry Walter (66 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Gordon Parker (44 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Australasian Psychiatry (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Melbourne (252 papers) published 22 papers at the last edition, 5 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Sydney (247 papers) published 18 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of New South Wales (176 papers) published 13 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Queensland (160 papers) published 19 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • Monash University (140 papers) published 19 papers at the last edition, 9 more than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 28.17% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 67.32% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 14.38% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 9.80% of all publications and 8.50% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Career Prospects in Psychiatry

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Top Publications

  • Burnout and psychological distress amongst Australian healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Hanna Dobson;Charles B. Malpas;Aidan J.C. Burrell;Caroline Gurvich

    (2021)
    204 Citations
  • Emergency department mental health presentations before and during the COVID-19 outbreak in Western Australia.

    Milan Dragovic;Viki Pascu;Tammy Hall;Jesse Ingram

    (2020)
    75 Citations
  • School teachers: the forgotten frontline workers of Covid-19.

    Joanne R Beames;Helen Christensen;Aliza Werner-Seidler

    (2021)
    60 Citations
  • Neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio - a simple, accessible measure of inflammation, morbidity and prognosis in psychiatric disorders?

    Zlatan Zulfic;Cynthia Shannon Weickert;Cynthia Shannon Weickert;Cynthia Shannon Weickert;Thomas W Weickert;Thomas W Weickert;Dennis Liu

    (2020)
    35 Citations
  • Addressing international student mental health during COVID-19: an imperative overdue.

    Joel A. King;Sonja Cabarkapa;Fiona H.P. Leow;Chee H. Ng

    (2020)
    30 Citations
  • Effect of a mindfulness programme training on mental toughness and psychological well-being of female athletes

    (2021)
    27 Citations
  • Bigotry and borderline personality disorder.

    Andrew M Chanen

    (2021)
    18 Citations
  • Body parts of clinical concern in anorexia nervosa versus body dysmorphic disorder: a cross-diagnostic comparison.

    Wei Lin Toh;Sally A Grace;Susan L Rossell;David J Castle

    (2020)
    18 Citations
  • Ill-defined: Concepts of mental health and illness are becoming broader, looser, and more benign

    (2022)
    18 Citations

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