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BioPsychoSocial Medicine

Publishing model:
Open access

Overview

BioPsychoSocial Medicine is an open-access journal exploring the links between biological, psychological, social, and behavioral health factors. As the official journal of the Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine, it sponsors the globally recognized Ikemi Award for excellence in psychosomatic medicine research.

  • Covers all aspects of the interrelationships between different factors of health & illness.
  • Official journal of the Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine.
  • Open access: freely and permanently available for everyone to read and reuse.
  • Indexed in PubMed, Journal Citation Reports (Social Science Edition), PsycINFO and Scopus.
Editors-in-Chief
  • Shin Fukudo,
  • Mutsuhiro Nakao,
  • Kazuhiro Yoshiuchi

Journal metrics

Journal Impact Factor
2.4 (2024)
5-year Journal Impact Factor
3.3 (2024)
Submission to first decision (median)
5 days
Downloads
595.4k (2025)

Latest articles

Journal updates

  • Information for JSPM members

    Members of the Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine are eligible to pay a discounted APC, provided that both the first author and the corresponding author are members of the society. To receive this benefit, author's membership status must be verified at the time of editorial acceptance of their manuscript.

  • The Ikemi Award

    To stimulate research in psychosomatic medicine and to enhance the submission of high-quality manuscripts, BioPsychoSocial Medicine annually sponsors the "The Ikemi Award", which is presented to the first author of the best article published in the journal nominated by the award selection committee every year. 

Journal information

Electronic ISSN
1751-0759
Abstracted and indexed in
  1. Baidu
  2. CLOCKSS
  3. CNKI
  4. CNPIEC
  5. Chinese Academy of Medical Science (CAMS)
  6. Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences
  7. DOAJ
  8. Dimensions
  9. EBSCO
  10. EMCare
  11. Gale
  12. GoOA - The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
  13. Google Scholar
  14. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  15. Naver
  16. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  17. Ovid Discovery
  18. Portico
  19. ProQuest
  20. PsycINFO
  21. Psyndex
  22. PubMedCentral
  23. SCImago
  24. SCOPUS
  25. Semantic Scholar
  26. Social Science Citation Index
  27. TD Net Discovery Service
  28. Wanfang
  29. eLibrary.ru
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