Parity of publication for psychiatry.

Publication of Iranian Textbook for Psychiatry

Iranian Mental Health Researchers & Predatory Journals

Predatory journals exploit open access publication method; they do not carry out the peer review process and editorial assessment properly and publish unassessed articles for financial gain. According to a recent investigation published in the Lancet Psychiatry Journal, about 20% of authors or co-authors of articles published in predatory psychiatric journals have been Iranian. This substantial...

The review of the scientific productions of Iran in the field of military psychology and psychiatry on the Scopus database: A scientometric study by 2018

Background and Aim: With the growth of science production in the world, it is crucial to analyze the status of the produced knowledge for use in scientific policymaking. The scientometric method is one of these analytical tools. Given the special circumstances of Iran and the extent of the impact of the imposed war on the Iranian people, one of the scientific fields that can strongly produce kn...

Parity and Out-of-Pocket Spending for Children With High Mental Health or Substance Abuse Expenditures

OBJECTIVE: The Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act required health plans to provide mental health and substance use disorder (MH/SUD) benefits on par with medical benefits beginning in 2010. Previous research found that parity significantly lowered average out-of-pocket (OOP) spending on MH/SUD treatment of children. No evidence is available on how par...

Sub-specialties in psychiatry: towards parity in mental health training and services.

Neuropsychiatric disorders account for 5 of the 10 most disabling medical disorders worldwide, 1 and for a particularly large component of the burden of disease in South Africa. 2 Unfortunately, as elsewhere, training and services in psychiatry have lagged behind those of other major disciplines, and much additional work is needed to achieve parity. We focus in particular on the status of psych...