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World Psychiatry and the WPA task force to promote dissemination of psychiatric research conducted in low and middle income countries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2011

Mario Maj
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World Psychiatry, the official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA), is now published in five languages (English, Spanish, Chinese, Russian and French) and reaches more than 33,000 psychiatrists in 121 countries. It received recently its first impact factor, 3.896. The publication of the journal has two objectives. The first is to reach as many psychiatrists of the various countries of the world as possible, disseminating information on recent significant clinical, service and research developments in a language that can be assimilated by the vast majority of them. The second is to give voice to psychiatrists of all regions of the world, encouraging submission of research papers, commentaries and reports on innovative service modalities. Related to this second objective has been the establishment by the WPA of a task force aiming to promote dissemination of psychiatric research conducted in low and middle income countries. Among the objectives of this task force is to advise and support the editors of high quality journals produced in those countries in their efforts to achieve indexation.

Declaration of Interest: None.

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Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , September 2010 , pp. 204 - 206
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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