Journal of Clinical Medicine 2024 Editorial Board Meeting of the Section “Mental Health” Held on 24 September 2024

The Journal of Clinical Medicine (JCM, ISSN: 2077-0383) held an Editorial Board meeting for the Section “Mental Health” on 24 September 2024. We appreciate the Section Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Icro Maremmani, for hosting this meeting; four Editorial Board Members were in attendance.

The meeting started with a presentation about the development of the journal, as well as the Section “Mental Health” in particular, and the following information was presented:

Journal history, publication statistics, distribution of scholars (2018–2023), the benefits of open access, journal awards, conference sponsorship, society collaborations, and promotion on social media;
Section highly cited papers, geographical distribution of the Section’s Editorial Board Members, decision-making statistics, and Section statistics.

At this Editorial Board meeting, the EBMs had a positive discussion about the Section name, scope (medical psychiatry, medical psychology, and behavioral medicine), popular topics (such as hyperactive disorder and autism), article type, paper rejection rate, submissions’ diversity of country types, recruitment of Editorial Board Members, Section promotion at relevant conferences, etc. The meeting ended with a suggestion from Prof. Dr. Maremmani for the development of Special Issues.

We would like to thank every Editorial Board Member and contributing academic for their support, and we look forward to receiving more suggestions so that we can continue our progress together.

Attendee list (in no particular order):

Prof. Dr. Icro Maremmani (Section Editor-in-Chief), Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Pisa, Italy;
Prof. Dr. Napoleon Waszkiewicz, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland;
Prof. Dr. Jerzy Samochowiec, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland;
Dr. Camilla Gesi, ASST Fatebenefratelli-Sacco, Milan, Italy;
Prof. Dr. Yori Gidron, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.

The latest official CiteScore (2023 Scopus data) for the Journal of Clinical Medicine is 5.7, ranking 80/636 (Q1) in the “General Medicine” category. The current Impact Factor of JCM is 3.0 (2023), ranking 58/325 (Q1) in the “Medicine, General & Internal” category.

To access more journal statistics, please click here.

To access more information about the Section, please visit the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jcm/sections/Mental_Health.

JCM Editorial Office