Psychiatric Quarterly
journal
The Psychiatric Quarterly is a peer-reviewed medical journal that was established in 1915 as The State Hospital Quarterly (OCLC 297361895 and OCLC 559984281). It obtained its current name in 1927. The publication's founding editor-in-chief was Horatio Pollock.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index, PubMed, and EMBASE, among others. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2010 impact factor of 1.327, ranking it 62nd out of 110 journals in the category "Psychiatry".
In popular culture
In the 2002 episode "Surprise!" of the program Greg the Bunny, it is revealed that character Dottie Sunshine is a reader of Psychiatric Quarterly.
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