New Psychiatry
New Psychiatry is an international multilingual journal. Independent-minded, scientifically sound, beyond the conventional wisdom.
New Psychiatry
New ideas often are rejected in scientific journals, especially in psychaitry, while mediocre articles that support mainstream views are published easily. New Psychiatry is a journal for new ideas, as long as they are conceptually defensible and scientifically supportable.
The journal is supported by the University of Chile allowing it to be open access for readers and for authors, without any fees. Further, peer review will be open, unlike almost all scientific journals, making the review process much more fair than is the case with most scientific journals. The journal seeks to reach clinicians, not just academicsm especially in non-English speaking countries, especially Latin America and Central and Southern Europe. Hence it will be multilingual, soliciting articles in the major European languages as well as other languages in the future. Artificial intelligence technology will be used to translate articles into English, if not originally written in that language.
Founder and Co-editor: S. Nassir Ghaemi MD MPH, Tufts University, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts USA
Co-editor: Paul A. Vohringer MD MPH, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Editorial Board:
Luis Risco MD, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Rodrigo Nel Cordoba Rojas MD, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia
Andrea Amerio MD, Univeristy of Genoa, Italy
Gustavo Vasquez MD, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Federico Daray MD, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Gabriele Sani MD, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy
Sivan Mauer MD, Universidad de Parana, Curitiba, Brazil
We encourage contributions that challenge the conventional wisdom in current psychiatry, such as the simplistic acceptance of the DSM/ICD system of diagnosis, the use of medications for symptoms without attention to the medical model of disease, inattention to the psychopathology tradition, and limited knowledge of the history of psychiatry. We encourage conceptual or philosophical analysis of the assumptions of contemporary psychiatry, as well as its critics. We also solicit work in fields that are poorly appreciated among mental health clinicians, such as exisential approaches to psychiatry.
Instructions for Authors:
Manuscript guidelines
Structure
The manuscript should include: Title page (title, authors, affiliations, contact, abstract, keywords (up to 10), conflict of interest statement); Main text (introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, figures with captions, tables with captions) Acknowledgments (Funder), References.
There are no word limits for submissions, but manuscripts should be concise and well-written.
Formatting
Manuscripts may be written in any standard program including Word and LaTeX. Authors will upload a pdf for peer review. Upon submission of revised manuscripts authors will also be requested to submit a pdf version with tracked changes. Only after final acceptance of a manuscript will the author be requested to submit Word or LaTeX files for typesetting.
There are no strict formatting requirements, but all manuscripts should follow the basic structure for reporting scientific research above.
References should be in JAMA (American Medical Association) style. It is essential to include full author(s) name(s), journal or book title, article or chapter title, year of publication, volume and issue. DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) for each reference should be added wherever possible. They are not mandatory but strongly encouraged. Bibliography management tools such as EndNote, Zotero, Mendeley, Reference Manager are recommended.
Tables should be black and white/greyscale only and formatted as simply as possible for best accessibility. See some guidelines here: https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/tables/
Images should be submitted in high resolution for the typesetter after final acceptance of the manuscript.
Alt Text
To support the visually impaired, this journal includes Alt Text (alternative text), a short piece of text tagged to your figure to describe for readers contents of the image. This text can be used by screen readers to make the object accessible to people that cannot read or see the object. Add Alt Text using Microsoft Word tools or as a separate figure caption. Further information on Alt Text for images can be found here: https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/ .
Peer review
To encourage new ideas with fair publication, peer review will be open access, meaning peer reviewers will be identified and their reviews will be publicly accessible. In this manner, new ideas will not be quashed by the anonymous opinions of academic peer reviewers without any public awareness. High scientific standards still will be maintained: sufficient scientific evidence or rationale will be required for papers, and conceptual soundness and rigor will be needed. One-sided papers that ignore alternative viewpoints, or are based on demonstrably false or misleading factual premises, will not be published. Open peer reviews will provide rationales for such non-publication.
This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Users are allowed to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially), as long as the authors and the publisher are explicitly identified and properly acknowledged as the original source.
Ethics policy
All material presented must be acquired according to ethical standards and approved by legally appropriate ethical committee(s).
We encourage authors to be aware of standardised reporting guidelines when preparing their manuscripts:
- Case reports - CARE
- Diagnostic accuracy - STARD
- Observational studies - STROBE
- Randomized controlled trial - CONSORT
- Systematic reviews, meta-analyses - PRISMA
- Animal research / In vivo experiments - ARRIVE
In all cases of publication ethics the journal will refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines: https://publicationethics.org/
Reporting research that involves human subjects or data requires a declaration that the investigations were carried out following the rules of the Declaration of Helsinki (https://www.wma.net/what-we-do/medical-ethics/declaration-of-helsinki/). Approval from the institutional review board (IRB) or other appropriate ethics committee must be obtained before undertaking the research to confirm the study meets national and international guidelines. A statement including the project identification code, date of approval, and name of the ethics committee or institutional review board must be included as ‘Institutional Review Board Statement’ article. For example: "All subjects gave their informed consent for inclusion before they participated in the study. The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, and the protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of XXX (Project identification code)." The privacy rights of human subjects must always be observed.
Reporting research that involves animals required a statement that authors have the relevant approval for their study from an appropriate ethics committee and/or regulatory body before the work starts. The ethical statement provides editors, reviewers and readers with assurance that studies have received this ethical oversight. Authors are responsible for complying with regulations and guidelines relating to the use of animals for scientific purposes. Authors should ensure that they follow the ARRIVE guidelines for reporting animal research.
The manuscript should follow the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals and aim for the inclusion of representative human populations (sex, age and ethnicity) according to those recommendations. The terms sex and gender should be used correctly. Additionally, when studies describe groups by race, ethnicity, gender, disability, disease, etc., explanation regarding why such categorization was needed should be clearly stated in the article.
Data policy
By publishing in the journal authors are required to make research data available to editors and reviewers, and to readers upon request. For some research data, deposition in repositories is required and this is encouraged for all research data. For some papers, the decision to publish will be affected by whether or not authors share their research data.
Required
- Data sharing via repositories for some research data
- Data availability statements
- Data sharing on request
Optional / Encouraged
- Data citation
- Data sharing via repositories for all research data
- Prepare and share Data Management Plans
| Feature | Text |
| Definition of research data | This policy applies to the research data that would be required to verify the results of research reported in articles published in the journal. Research data include data produced by the authors (“primary data”) and data from other sources that are analysed by authors in their study (“secondary data”). Research data includes any recorded factual material that are used to produce the results in digital and non-digital form. This includes tabular data, code, images, audio, documents, video, maps, raw and/or processed data. |
| Definition of exceptions | Research data that are not required to verify the results reported in articles are not covered by this policy. This policy does not require public sharing of quantitative or qualitative data that could identify a research participant unless participants have consented to data release. The policy also does not require public sharing of other sensitive data, such as the locations of endangered species. Alternatives to public sharing of sensitive or personal data include:
Stating the procedures for accessing your research data in your article and managing data access requests from other researchers. |
| Embargoes | Embargoes on data sharing are only permitted with the agreement of the Editors. |
| Supplementary materials | Sharing research data as supplementary information files is discouraged. Research data of the types listed in “Mandatory data sharing (specific papers)” must not be uploaded as supplementary information files. The journal will require authors to deposit these in an approved repository as a condition of publication. |
| Data repositories | The preferred mechanism for sharing research data is via data repositories. Please see <recommended repository list> or https://repositoryfinder.datacite.org/ for help finding research data repositories. Research data of the types listed in “Mandatory data sharing (specific papers)” must be uploaded to an appropriate repository. The journal will require authors to deposit these in an approved repository as a condition of publication. |
| Data citation | The journal encourages authors to cite any publicly available research data in their reference list. References to datasets (data citations) must include a persistent identifier (such as a DOI). Citations of datasets, when they appear in the reference list, should include the minimum information recommended by DataCite and follow journal style. |
| Data licensing | The journal encourages research data to be made available under open licences that permit reuse freely. The journal does not enforce particular licenses for research data, where research data are deposited in third party repositories. The publisher of the journal does not claim copyright in research data. |
| Researcher/ author support | Questions about complying with this policy should be sent to info@scienceopen.com |
| Data availability statements | The journal requires authors to include in any articles that report results derived from research data to include a Data Availability Statement as part of the submission process. The provision of a Data availability statement that is compatible with the journal’s research data policy will be verified as a condition of publication. Data availability statements should include information on where data supporting the results reported in the article can be found including, where applicable, hyperlinks to publicly archived datasets analysed or generated during the study. Where research data are not publicly available, this must be stated in the manuscript along with any conditions for accessing the data. Data Availability statements must take one of the following forms (or a combination of more than one if required for multiple types of research data):
The data that support the findings of this study are available from [third party name] but restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under license for the current study, and so are not publicly available. Data are however available from the authors upon reasonable request and with permission of [third party name]. |
| Data formats and standards | The journal encourages authors to share research data using data formats and standards recognised by their research community. Please see FAIRsharing.org for more information on established data sharing formats and standards.
The journal prefers research data to be shared in open file formats – those that do not require proprietary software to access - where possible. For example, tabular data should be shared as CSV files rather than XLS files. |
| Mandatory data sharing (specific papers) | For certain types of research data, submission to a community-endorsed, public repository is mandatory. The journal will require authors to deposit data of these types in an approved repository as a condition of publication. |
| Research data and peer review | Peer reviewers are encouraged to check the manuscript’s Data Availability statement. Where applicable, they should consider if the authors have complied with the journal’s policy on the availability of research data, and whether reasonable effort has been made to make the data that support the findings of the study available for replication or reuse by other researchers. Peer reviewers are entitled to request access to underlying data (and code) when needed for them to perform their evaluation of a manuscript. |
| Data Management Plans | The journal encourages authors to prepare Data Management Plans before conducting their research and encourages authors to make those plans available to editors, reviewers and readers who wish to assess them. |
To encourage new ideas with fair publication, peer review will be open access, meaning peer reviewers will be identified and their reviews will be publicly accessible. In this manner, new ideas will not be quashed by the anonymous opinions of academic peer reviewers without any public awareness. High scientific standards still will be maintained: sufficient scientific evidence or rationale will be required for papers, and conceptual soundness and rigor will be needed. One-sided papers that ignore alternative viewpoints, or are based on demonstrably false or misleading factual premises, will not be published. Open peer reviews will provide rationales for such non-publication.
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New Psychiatry
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Independent-minded, scientifically sound, beyond the conventional wisdom
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Collection Information
| ScienceOpen disciplines: | Psychology, Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry |
| DOI: | 10.14293/S2199-1006.1.SOR-MED.CLIQMDT.v1 |