Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal’s Rating Soars

Ratings for PRA’s official educational journal, Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal (PRJ), have increased tremendously in the past year. A joint publication of PRA, Boston University’s Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, and the American Psychological Association (APA), PRJ publishes original contributions related to the rehabilitation, psychosocial treatment, and recovery of people with serious mental illnesses.

PRA entered into a partnership with APA in 2012 with the goal to increase the visibility of the journal within the field of mental health, as well as further promoting principles of psychiatric rehabilitation and recovery. PRA has demonstratively accomplished this goal with the release of the journal’s ratings last month. PRJ received an impact factor of 1.159, compared to its 2011 impact factor of 0.7646, placing the journal in a similar rank as journals like the International Journal of Speech–Language Pathology (1.176) and International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine (1.154). In addition, the journal has moved up in both the rehabilitation (30th) and psychiatry (81st) categories.

Each of PRA’s individual members as well as the primary contact of organizational members receives a hard copy of each issue of PRJ. In addition, persons employed by PRA organizational members have access to PRJ by logging onto the “Member’s Only” portion of the PRA’s website, and clicking on the PRJ link for both current and archived copies of PRJ.