Psychiatry Investigation: 15 Years of Challenges

Psychiatry Investigation, founded in 2004 as the official English journal of the Korean Neuropsychiatry Association (KNPA), celebrates its 15th anniversary of continued publication. Prof. Byoung-Hoon Oh was the founding Editor-inChief. Since then, excellent scholars such as Professors ChanHyung Kim (2005–2009), Jun-Soo Kwon (2009–2011), Chang-Uk Lee (2012–2015), and Dai-Jin Kim (2016–2017) have been the Editors-in-Chief, and have contributed greatly to the journal’s success.1,2 Psychiatry Investigation was published biannually from 2004 to 2007, quarterly from 2008 to 2015, bimonthly from 2016 to 2017, and now becomes a monthly journal in 2018. Psychiatry Investigation was listed in the Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCIE) by Thomson Reuters in April 2009, in the US National Institutes of Health PubMed index in December 2009, and in the Thomson Reuters Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) in April 2012, thanks to the profound contributions of the excellent editorial board members. According to the Web of Science database, its JCR 2016 impact factor was 1.406, its H-score was 22, and the average citations per item was 5.26. Figure 1 shows trends in the sum of times Psychiatry Investigation was cited per year in recent years.3 These scores and the figure reflect Psychiatry Investigation’s Print ISSN 1738-3684 / On-line ISSN 1976-3026 OPEN ACCESS EDITORIAL