About Psychiatric Research and Clinical Practice

An Open-Access Journal From the American Psychiatric Association

Editor: Laura B. Dunn, MD

Psychiatric Research and Clinical Practice (PRCP) is a new peer-reviewed, open-access journal from the American Psychiatric Association that offers a high-profile publishing destination for submissions that build upon the psychiatric knowledge base and bring research findings closer to clinical utility through deeper investigation.

Submissions on all aspects of mental and behavioral health to inform the field from bench to bedside are welcome. PRCP seeks to occupy that place between research and clinical utility, leaning toward clinical utility through publication of replication studies and features that show how new scientific knowledge can inform clinical practice. The journal will also feature “Clinical Pearls”—accounts by clinicians using the findings from the most up-to-date clinical research to help solve problems commonly confronted in clinical practice.

PRCP maintains the rigorous standards of APA’s scholarly publications while providing an essential resource for today’s practicing physicians. Published in accordance with open-access principles, PRCP makes all of its content immediately available for free—the reach one wants from an established and respected publisher.

About the Editor

Dr. Dunn is the Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), where she also serves as Director of the Psychiatric Research Institute. She also holds the Marie Wilson Howells Chair in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She is board certified in psychiatry and geriatric psychiatry, and has served in numerous clinical, educational, and administrative leadership roles during her academic career. Dr. Dunn has served as principal investigator or co-investigator on numerous NIH- and foundation-sponsored studies.

Dr. Dunn's research portfolio has included numerous studies of ethical issues in clinical research, with a focus on potentially vulnerable populations, including people with serious mental illness and individuals with neurocognitive disorders. In addition, she has conducted research in psycho-oncology to characterize psychological symptom trajectories in cancer patients and survivors. She has published over 250 manuscripts and book chapters.

Dr. Dunn brings a longstanding commitment to mentorship and scholarly writing to her new role as editor-in-chief. Throughout her career at institutions including University of California, San Diego, University of California, San Francisco, Stanford University and UAMS, she has dedicated herself to fostering the careers of the next generation of psychiatric researchers and clinicians. As editor-in-chief, Dr. Dunn is committed to promoting high-quality psychiatric scholarship while creating opportunities for emerging scholars to share their work with the broader scientific community.

Learn More

• Mission and Editorial Policy
• Editorial Board and Editorial Staff

Indexing Information

• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Embase (Elsevier)
• PubMed (NLM)
• SCOPUS (Elsevier)