Aims & Scope

Aims:

Precision Psychiatry Journal (PrecPsychJ) is a gold open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to revolutionising mental health care through personalised and precision-based treatment approaches. The journal emphasises the integration of biological, clinical, and digital data to advance the understanding of disease mechanisms, enable biomarker discovery, support drug repurposing, and inform individualised treatment strategies for patients with psychiatric disorders. It is published quarterly online by Scilight Press.

Scope:

The journal welcomes original research, reviews, and translational studies across, but not limited to, the following key domains:

• Advancing personalised mental health care: Support the development of predictive, preventive, and personalised therapeutic interventions, tailored to each patient's unique biological, psychosocial, and environmental profile.
• Support diagnostic precision: Improve psychiatric nosology by integrating multi-modal data sources — such as genomics, neuroimaging, digital phenotyping, and wearable technologies — to move beyond traditional symptom-based classification systems.
• Promoting clinical implementation: Facilitate the validation, clinical translation, and widespread adoption of precision psychiatry tools — including biomarkers, predictive algorithms, and stratified care pathways — to enhance diagnostic accuracy and treatment efficacy in routine psychiatric practice.
• Accelerating biomarker discovery: Promote the identification and validation of molecular, imaging, and digital biomarkers for early detection, differential diagnosis, prognosis, and monitoring of treatment response across psychiatric conditions.
• Exploring physical–mental health comorbidities: Advanced novel mechanistic insights and integrative treatment strategies for individuals experiencing comorbid physical and mental health conditions, with emphasis on shared pathophysiological pathways and personalised care models.
• Supporting ethical and equitable innovation: Address ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) associated with precision psychiatry, including data governance, algorithmic bias, informed consent, and equitable global access to advanced mental health technologies and services.
• Promoting interdisciplinary collaboration: Promote cross-disciplinary partnerships involving psychiatry, neuroscience, bioinformatics, epidemiology, engineering, data science, and health policy to co-develop innovations with tangible clinical impact.
• Encouraging diversity and inclusion: Foster the development of knowledge and technologies that benefit individuals from diverse ethnic, cultural, geographic, and gender identity backgrounds, ensuring that precision psychiatry solutions are inclusive, globally relevant, and socio-culturally responsive.