title: Indian Journal of Psychiatry
text: # 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.
  
  