Schizophrenia is an open access, online-only, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to publishing high-quality original papers and review articles relevant to all aspects of schizophrenia and psychosis.

Why publish in Schizophrenia?

• Publishes high-quality articles relevant to all aspects of schizophrenia and psychosis.
• We ensure quality through a strong collaboration between external and internal editors.
• Progressive & modern - We look to explore new initiatives to provide value for researchers.

Aims and Scope

Find out further information on the journal aims and scope here.

Content types

Please see the detailed outline of the content types that Schizophrenia considers.

About the Editors

Schizophrenia’s international Editors span the breadth of the research areas covered by the journal - read more about the Editors and the Nature Research team here.

Open Access

Schizophrenia is a fully open access journal. More on Creative Commons Attribution licenses and the benefits of publishing open access can be found in this section.

Article Processing Charges

To allow immediate global open access to all articles, Schizophrenia levies an article processing charge (APC). Current APCs and waiver information are available in this section.

Journal Metrics

Article metrics such as number of downloads, citations and online attention are available from each article page, and provide an overview of the attention received by a paper.

Citation Impact 2023

• Journal Impact Factor: 5.7 (partial IF for new title, Schizophrenia)
• 5-year Journal Impact Factor: 5.6
• Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.252
• SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 1.594

Speed 2024

• Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 7
• Submission to acceptance (median days): 105

Usage 2024

• Downloads: 740,397
• Altmetric mentions: 751

More about our metrics

About the Partner

Schizophrenia is a high-quality Springer Nature journal published in partnership with Schizophrenia International Research Society – find out more.