The value of mental science: we publish what matters

Gin S Malhi; Katherine Adlington; Adam Al-Diwani; Shehzad Ali; Rina Arya; David S Baldwin; Prathiba Batley; Erica Bell; German Berrios; Allan Beveridge; Mohan Bhat; Dinesh Bhugra; Asit Biswas; Sarah Byford; Colin Campbell; Hilary Cass; Rakesh K Chadda; Samuel R Chamberlain; Astrid Chevance; Erika Comasco; John Cookson; Harry Costello; Hugo D Critchley; Pim Cuijpers; Angharad N de Cates; Riccardo De Giorgi; Claire de Oliveira; Colin Drummond; Jianfeng Feng; Tamsin Ford; Andrew Forrester; John R Geddes; Judith R Harrison; Joseph F Hayes; Scott Henderson; Cyrus S H Ho; Philipp Homan; Neil Horn; Konstantinos Ioannidis; Edgar Jones; Eirini Karyotaki; Kenneth R Kaufman; Ivan Koychev; Veena Kumari; Marinos Kyriakopoulos; Stephen M Lawrie; William Lee; Anikó Lovik; Philip McGuire; Kwame McKenzie; Edoardo G Ostinelli; Femi Oyebode; Sarah Peters; Eva Petkova; Michael R Phillips; Mariana Pinto da Costa; Thomas J Reilly; Emmert Roberts; Joanne Rodda; A John Rush; Rob Saunders; Thomas G Schulze; Frauke Schultze-Lutter; Sukhwinder S Shergill; Gurubhaskar Shivakumar; Dan Siskind; G Mustafa Soomro; Ramya Srinivasan; Athula Sumathipala; Kinga Szymaniak; Eric Tan; Leila Tarokh; Derek Tracy; Stuart Watson; Richard Williams; Jingwei Wu; Allan H Young; Yaara Zisman-Ilani; Emilio Fernandez-Egea

doi:10.1192/bjp.2025.118

The value of mental science: we publish what matters

Br J Psychiatry. 2025 Jun 9:1-5. doi: 10.1192/bjp.2025.118. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Gin S Malhi^{1

2

3

4}, Katherine Adlington⁵, Adam Al-Diwani³, Shehzad Ali^{6

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8}, Rina Arya⁹, David S Baldwin^{10

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12}, Prathiba Batley¹³, Erica Bell^{1

2}, German Berrios¹⁴, Allan Beveridge¹⁵, Mohan Bhat^{16

17}, Dinesh Bhugra¹⁸, Asit Biswas¹⁹, Sarah Byford¹⁸, Colin Campbell^{18

20}, Hilary Cass²¹, Rakesh K Chadda²², Samuel R Chamberlain^{23

24}, Astrid Chevance^{25

26}, Erika Comasco²⁷, John Cookson²⁸, Harry Costello²⁹, Hugo D Critchley^{30

31}, Pim Cuijpers^{32

33}, Angharad N de Cates^{3

34}, Riccardo De Giorgi^{35

36}, Claire de Oliveira^{37

38

39

40}, Colin Drummond⁴¹, Jianfeng Feng^{42

43

44

45

46}, Tamsin Ford⁴⁷, Andrew Forrester^{48

49}, John R Geddes³, Judith R Harrison⁵⁰, Joseph F Hayes²⁹, Scott Henderson⁵¹, Cyrus S H Ho⁵², Philipp Homan^{53

54}, Neil Horn^{55

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57

58}, Konstantinos Ioannidis^{24

59}, Edgar Jones⁶⁰, Eirini Karyotaki^{32

61

62}, Kenneth R Kaufman^{3

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64}, Ivan Koychev^{35

65}, Veena Kumari⁶⁶, Marinos Kyriakopoulos^{20

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68}, Stephen M Lawrie⁶⁹, William Lee⁷⁰, Anikó Lovik⁷¹, Philip McGuire^{3

72

73}, Kwame McKenzie^{74

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76}, Edoardo G Ostinelli^{3

36

77}, Femi Oyebode⁷⁸, Sarah Peters⁷⁹, Eva Petkova^{80

81}, Michael R Phillips⁸², Mariana Pinto da Costa⁶⁰, Thomas J Reilly³, Emmert Roberts^{41

20}, Joanne Rodda^{16

83}, A John Rush⁸⁴, Rob Saunders⁸⁵, Thomas G Schulze^{86

87

88}, Frauke Schultze-Lutter^{89

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91}, Sukhwinder S Shergill⁸³, Gurubhaskar Shivakumar^{1

2

92}, Dan Siskind^{93

94}, G Mustafa Soomro²⁴, Ramya Srinivasan²⁹, Athula Sumathipala^{95

96}, Kinga Szymaniak^{1

2}, Eric Tan⁹⁷, Leila Tarokh⁹⁸, Derek Tracy^{20

99}, Stuart Watson¹⁰⁰, Richard Williams¹⁰¹, Jingwei Wu¹⁰², Allan H Young¹⁰³, Yaara Zisman-Ilani^{104

105}, Emilio Fernandez-Egea^{47

106}

Affiliations

¹ Academic Department of Psychiatry, Kolling Institute, Northern Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Australia.
² CADE Clinic and Mood-T, Royal North Shore Hospital, Northern Sydney Local Health District, St Leonards, Australia.
³ Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK.
⁴ Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK.
⁵ Queen Mary University of London, UK; and East London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
⁶ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine, Western University, London, Canada.
⁷ Department of Health Sciences, University of York, UK.
⁸ Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addictions and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, Canada.
⁹ School of the Arts, Faculty of Arts, Cultures and Education, University of Hull, UK.
¹⁰ Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, UK.
¹¹ University Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
¹² Mood Disorders Service, Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.
¹³ Independent Researcher, UK.
¹⁴ Robinson College, University of Cambridge, UK.
¹⁵ Editorial Board, British Journal of Psychiatry, UK.
¹⁶ Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust, Gillingham, UK.
¹⁷ Faculty of Old age Psychiatry, Royal College of Psychiatrists, London, UK.
¹⁸ King's College London, UK.
¹⁹ University of Leicester, UK.
²⁰ South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
²¹ Evelina London Children's Healthcare, London, UK.
²² Department of Psychiatry, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Faridabad, India.
²³ Department of Psychiatry, University of Southampton, UK.
²⁴ Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.
²⁵ Université Paris Cité and Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Inserm, INRAE, Center for Research in Epidemiology and Statistics, Paris, France.
²⁶ Centre d'Epidémiologie Clinique, AP-HP, Hôpital Hôtel Dieu, Paris, France.
²⁷ Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Sweden.
²⁸ Royal London Hospital, London, UK.
²⁹ Division of Psychiatry, University College London, UK.
³⁰ Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Sussex, UK.
³¹ Neurodevelopmental Service, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Worthing, UK.
³² Department of Clinical, Neuro and Developmental Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands.
³³ International Institute for Psychotherapy, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania.
³⁴ Institute for Mental Health, University of Birmingham, UK.
³⁵ Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK.
³⁶ Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK.
³⁷ Institute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada.
³⁸ Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada.
³⁹ Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada.
⁴⁰ ICES, Toronto, Canada.
⁴¹ National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK.
⁴² Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, China.
⁴³ Key Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience and Brain Inspired Intelligence (Fudan University), Ministry of Education, Shanghai, China.
⁴⁴ School of Data Science, Fudan University, China.
⁴⁵ Zhangjiang Fudan International Innovation Center, Shanghai, China.
⁴⁶ Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, UK.
⁴⁷ Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, UK.
⁴⁸ Department of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, UK.
⁴⁹ Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, Dartford, UK.
⁵⁰ Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, UK.
⁵¹ Centre for Mental Health Research, The Australian National University, Australia.
⁵² Department of Psychological Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
⁵³ Department of Adult Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
⁵⁴ Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
⁵⁵ University of Nairobi, Kenya.
⁵⁶ Mio University, Kenya.
⁵⁷ Chiromo Hospital Group, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁵⁸ Royal College of Psychiatrists, Africa.
⁵⁹ Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, University of Southampton, UK.
⁶⁰ Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK.
⁶¹ Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
⁶² Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
⁶³ Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology and Anesthesiology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, USA.
⁶⁴ Department of Psychological Medicine, School of Academic Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK.
⁶⁵ Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, UK.
⁶⁶ Department of Psychology and Centre for Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Brunel University of London, UK.
⁶⁷ 1st Department of Psychiatry National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Vyronas-Kessariani Community Mental Health Centre and Eginition Hospital, Athens, Greece.
⁶⁸ Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK.
⁶⁹ Division of Psychiatry, Chancellors Building, University of Edinburgh, UK.
⁷⁰ Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Bodmin, UK.
⁷¹ Methodology and Statistics Unit, Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, Netherlands.
⁷² NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford, UK.
⁷³ Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK.
⁷⁴ Wellesley Institute, Toronto, Canada.
⁷⁵ University of Toronto, Canada.
⁷⁶ Centre for Addictions and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada.
⁷⁷ Oxford Precision Psychiatry Lab, NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford, UK.
⁷⁸ Institute of Mental Health, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK.
⁷⁹ Manchester Centre for Health Psychology, University of Manchester, UK.
⁸⁰ Department of Population Health, Grossman School of Medicine, New York University, USA.
⁸¹ Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Grossman School of Medicine, New York University, USA.
⁸² Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China.
⁸³ Kent and Medway Medical School, Canterbury, UK.
⁸⁴ Duke-National University of Singapore, Singapore.
⁸⁵ CORE Data Lab, University College London, UK.
⁸⁶ Institute of Psychiatric Phenomics and Genomics (IPPG), University Hospital, LMU Munich, Germany.
⁸⁷ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Norton College of Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, USA.
⁸⁸ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.
⁸⁹ Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany.
⁹⁰ Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia.
⁹¹ University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Switzerland.
⁹² Adult Mental Health Unit, Hornsby Ku-Ring-Gai Hospital, Northern Sydney Local Health District, Hornsby, Australia.
⁹³ Medical School, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
⁹⁴ Addiction and Mental Health Service, Metro South Health, Brisbane, Australia.
⁹⁵ Institute for Research and Development in Health and Social Care, Sri Lanka.
⁹⁶ Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Keele University, UK.
⁹⁷ Centre for Mental Health and Brain Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
⁹⁸ Translational Research Center, University Hospital of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Switzerland.
⁹⁹ Department of Psychosis Studies, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, King's College London, UK.
¹⁰⁰ Academic Psychiatry and Regional Affective Disorders Service, Wolfson Research Centre, Newcastle University, UK.
¹⁰¹ The University of South Wales, UK.
¹⁰² Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA.
¹⁰³ Division of Psychiatry, Imperial College London, UK.
¹⁰⁴ Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, College of Public Health, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA.
¹⁰⁵ Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, UK.
¹⁰⁶ Cambridge Psychosis Centre, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK.

PMID: 40485480
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.2025.118

Abstract

Recent changes to US research funding are having far-reaching consequences that imperil the integrity of science and the provision of care to vulnerable populations. Resisting these changes, the BJPsych Portfolio reaffirms its commitment to publishing mental science and advancing psychiatric knowledge that improves the mental health of one and all.

Keywords: Ethics; integrity; psychiatry; publishing; science.