BJPsych Journals: Call for papers and statistical reviewers
We’re calling for submissions across the BJPsych, BJPsych Advances and BJPsych Bulletin for themed issues and series, all subject to peer review. Look at the details for the respective calls below:
BJPsych: Our Age of Anxiety: Fear, Unease and Worry
Deadline: 31 October 2025
Although there have been advances in understanding the causes of anxiety disorders through insights from research across a broad range of disciplines, including epidemiology, epigenetics, neuropsychobiology and psychopharmacology, the picture of the aetiopathogenesis of these common illnesses remains incomplete. Nevertheless, novel treatments have been developed, and many new psychotherapeutic and pharmacological treatments are now available and being applied in clinical practice.
This themed issue aims to bring together the knowledge that has been acquired across all aspects of anxiety disorders, filling in the gaps and building links between what we know and what we do – in particular, in relation to how various treatments potentially work. We welcome submissions of original research, reviews and editorials, preferring contributions with robust methodologies which offer definitive evidence.
BJPsych Bulletin Themed Issue: Intelligent kindness in mental health care
Deadline: 30 November 2025
Despite growing awareness of the importance of compassion in mental health care, systemic pressures, workforce constraints, digitalisation, and managerialist models have led to the erosion of relational practices. The concept of intelligent kindness, as proposed by Ballatt and Campling, offers a timely and urgent call to reorient services around humane, relational and values-driven approaches.
This issue will explore how intelligent kindness can be conceptualised, implemented, and evaluated within contemporary psychiatric and mental health services. We welcome examples of systemic change that foreground kindness as both ethical imperative and evidence-based practice. We are interested in reflective and opinion pieces, original research and clinical practice papers, service evaluations, and lived experience contributions. Papers should be submitted under the Cultural Reflections article type.
BJPsych Advances: New submissions proposal
We are inviting clinical experts to submit proposals for journal content in all areas of psychiatry covering the below article types. We would particularly welcome proposals in the areas of addictions, ethics, liaison psychiatry, perinatal psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, rehabilitation and social.
Articles: Typically discuss comprehensive, practical approaches to clinical problems and explain the full range of therapeutic options, with useful features like MCQs, summary boxes, and associated commentaries commissioned by the Editor-in-Chief.
Clinical reflections: Consider clinical, ethical or research dilemmas or uncertainties that present in day-to-day practice. They are the equivalent of thinking aloud and deliberating on the matter in hand.
Refreshments: Provide a short, succinct summary of a single topic to be read as a quick update by practising psychiatrists. The aim is to help readers improve their knowledge and practice in areas outside their field of expertise.
Memory lane: This series explores key works in psychiatry that should not be forgotten.
Research methods: This section expands on various aspects of research methodology. The subject area is broad and could include aspects such as epidemiological research, general qualitative research, critiques of different measurement tools used in research etc. The focus is to provide educative pieces for new researchers and/or inexperienced investigators.
BJPsych Journals: Call for statistical reviewers
We’re looking for qualified statisticians with experience in biostatistics, to review for the BJPsych Journals, with the aim of improving the quality of statistical analysis of manuscripts published within the portfolio. All approved reviewers will have the opportunity to work across the five journals (BJPsych, BJPsych Open, BJPsych Advances, BJPsych Bulletin, BJPsych International). Reviewing the statistical analysis and methodology of manuscripts and providing second opinions on manuscript.