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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. EMCare
  10. Gale
  11. GoOA - The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
  12. Google Scholar
  13. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  14. Naver
  15. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  16. Ovid Discovery
  17. Portico
  18. ProQuest
  19. PsycINFO
  20. Psyndex
  21. PubMedCentral
  22. SCImago
  23. SCOPUS
  24. Semantic Scholar
  25. Social Science Citation Index
  26. TD Net Discovery Service
  27. Wanfang
  28. eLibrary.ru
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