Skip to main content
Log in

Overview

Community Mental Health Journal is devoted to the evaluation and improvement of public sector mental health services for people affected by severe mental disorders, serious emotional disturbances and/or addictions.

Coverage includes:

  • nationally representative epidemiologic projects
  • intervention research involving benefit and risk comparisons between service programs
  • methodology, such as instrumentation, where particularly pertinent to public sector behavioral health evaluation or research

*Please note: All studies must be approved by human subjects committees (also known as institutional review boards). At the end of the Methods section, authors must state which human subject committee (IRB) approved the study.

This is a transformative journal, you may have access to funding.

Editor-in-Chief
  • Sandra Steingard
Impact factor
2.7 (2022)
5 year impact factor
2.6 (2022)
Submission to first decision (median)
4 days
Downloads
595,385 (2022)

Latest articles

Journal updates

  • Call for Papers: Recovery at 30: Emancipation, cooptation, or the end of an era?

    In this special issue of Community Mental Health Journal, we are soliciting both concept pieces (commentaries, critical reviews) and empirical work (qualitative, quantitative, ethnographic or mixed methods) that explore the question of whether recovery policy remains relevant and emancipatory today or whether the psy-fields are instead in need of fresh thinking and new, more diverse values-based frameworks.

    Guest Editors: Vandana Gopikumar, Archana Padmakar, Ro Speight, Nev Jones, Rebecca Miller, Sandy Steingard
    Submission Deadline: December 1, 2023

  • Call for Papers: Multi-Journal Collection on Reducing Poverty and its Consequences

    As one of the most enduring and complex social problems in the world, poverty, and its eradication, must be addressed through a variety of research and practice domains including social, behavioral, and public health perspectives.  Our journal is calling for submissions to a multi-journal collection exploring this significant global issue. Click here for more details.

    Submission Deadline: July. 1, 2023

  • New Article Type: Fresh Focus

    Community Mental Health Journal is introducing a new article type, focusing on emerging topics of discussion within community psychiatry.  The new article type, Fresh Focus,  spans several possible formats and focus topics listed here. 

Journal information

Electronic ISSN
1573-2789
Print ISSN
0010-3853
Abstracted and indexed in
  1. BFI List
  2. Baidu
  3. CLOCKSS
  4. CNKI
  5. CNPIEC
  6. Current Contents / Social & Behavioral Sciences
  7. Dimensions
  8. EBSCO Academic Search
  9. EBSCO Biomedical Reference Collection
  10. EBSCO Book Review Digest Plus
  11. EBSCO CINAHL
  12. EBSCO Discovery Service
  13. EBSCO MasterFILE
  14. EBSCO OmniFile
  15. EBSCO Social Sciences Abstracts
  16. EMCare
  17. Google Scholar
  18. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  19. Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition
  20. Medline
  21. Naver
  22. Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
  23. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  24. Portico
  25. ProQuest ABI/INFORM
  26. ProQuest Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA)
  27. ProQuest-ExLibris Primo
  28. ProQuest-ExLibris Summon
  29. PsycINFO
  30. SCImago
  31. SCOPUS
  32. Semantic Scholar
  33. Social Science Citation Index
  34. TD Net Discovery Service
  35. UGC-CARE List (India)
  36. Wanfang
Copyright information

Rights and permissions

Springer policies

© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature

Navigation