The International Journal of Social Psychiatry is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal that covers research in the field of social psychiatry.

The editor-in-chief is Dinesh Bhugra (King's College London).

It was established in 1955 and is published by SAGE Publications.

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: Academic Search Premier, Current Contents, Family Index Database, International Nursing Index, Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed, Scopus, and the Social Sciences Citation Index.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 10.468.