一種國際多學科期刊，出版技術、方法、實驗和臨床性質的原始研究，對最廣泛意義上的精神疾病的理論、方法、實踐和評價作出貢獻。它與歐洲臨床試驗標準化委員會、國際精神病學流行病學聯合會和世界衛生組織診斷儀器委員會有著密切的工作關系。精神病學作為一門應用多學科科學，其概念、主題、方法和技術正在發生著日新月異的變化?！秶H精神病學研究方法雜志》(International Journal of Methods in psychiatry Research)試圖通過為優秀研究的快速發表提供平臺，來監測、討論和影響這些變化。

An international multidisciplinary journal for the publication of original research of a technical, methological, experimental and clinical nature that contributes to the theory, methodology, practice and evaluation of mental disorders in the widest sense. There is a close working relationship with the European Committee for the Standardisation of Clinical Trials, the International Consortium of Psychiatric Epidemiology and the World Health Organisation's Diagnostic Instruments Committee. Psychiatry as an applied multidisciplinary science is subject to continued rapid change with regard to concepts, topics, methodologies and techniques. The International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research seeks to monitor, discuss and to influence those changes by providing a platform for rapid publication of outstanding contributions.