{{Infobox journal | title = The Journal of ECT | image = <!-- or |cover= --> | image_size = <!-- default is 200px --> | alt = | caption = | former_name = ''Convulsive Therapy''<ref name=Fink>{{cite news |last1=Sandomir |first1=Richard |title=Max Fink, Champion of Electroconvulsive Therapy, Dies at 102 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/science/max-fink-dead.html |work=The New York Times |date=June 27, 2025}}</ref><!-- or |former_names= --> | abbreviation = J. ECT<!-- use ISO 4 standard --> | discipline = Psychiatry, electroconvulsive therapy | peer-reviewed = | language = English | editor = Randall Espinoza<!-- or |editors= --> | publisher = Lippincott Williams & Wilkins<ref name=WoS>{{cite web |title=Journal of ECT |url=https://wos-journal.info/journalid/14898 |website=Web of Science™ (WoS) Journal Info |access-date=July 20, 2025}}</ref> on behalf of the International Society for ECT and Neurostimulation<ref name=about>{{cite web |title=About ISEN |url=https://www.isen-ect.org/about |website=International Society for ECT and Neurostimulation |access-date=July 19, 2025}}</ref> | country = | history = 1985<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kaplan Long |first1=Arline |title=Through the Times With Max Fink, M.D. |journal=Psychiatric Times |date=September 1, 2005 |volume=XXII |issue=10 |url=https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/through-times-max-fink-md}}</ref>–present | frequency = Quarterly | openaccess = | license = | impact = 1.8<ref name=WoS/> | impact-year = | bluebook = | mathscinet = | nlm = J ECT | ISSN = 1095-0680<!-- up to |ISSN10= --> | ISSNlabel = <!-- up to |ISSNlabel10= --> | eISSN = 1533-4112<!-- up to |eISSN10= --> | CODEN = JOUEFA<!-- up to |CODEN10= --> | JSTOR = <!-- up to |JSTOR10= --> | LCCN = <!-- up to |LCCN10= --> | OCLC = <!-- up to |OCLC10= --> | website = https://journals.lww.com/ectjournal/pages/default.aspx | link1 = <!-- up to |link10= --> | link1-name = <!-- up to |link10-name= --> }}
'''''The Journal of ECT''''' is an academic journal focused on electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and related fields.{{efn|These related fields include transcranial magnetic stimulation, vagus nerve stimulation, magnetic seizure therapy, and deep brain stimulation.<ref>{{cite web |title=Journal of ECT Online |url=https://shop.lww.com/Journal-of-ECT-Online/p/1533-4112 |publisher=Wolters Kluwer |access-date=20 July 2025}}</ref>}} The journal was founded as ''Convulsive Therapy'' in 1985, and Max Fink was the founding editor.<ref name=Fink/> After Fink stepped down in 1994, Charles Kellner assumed the role. In 2004, Vaughn McCall became editor.<ref name=editors>{{cite journal | last=McCall | first=W. Vaughn | last2=Kellner | first2=Charles H. | last3=Fink | first3=Max | title=Convulsive therapy and the Journal of ECT: 30 years of publication and continuing | journal=The Journal of ECT | volume=30 | issue=1 | date=2014 | issn=1533-4112 | pmid=24553316 | doi=10.1097/YCT.0000000000000107 | doi-access=free | pages=1–2}}</ref> The fourth editor-in-chief, Randall Espinoza, was named in 2023.<ref name=UCLA>{{cite web |title=Dr. Randall Espinoza named editor-in-chief of international ECT journal |url=https://newsroom.ucla.edu/dept/faculty/randall-espinoza-editor-in-chief-electroconvulsive-therapy-journal |website=UCLA Newsroom |access-date=July 20, 2025 |date=December 22, 2023}}</ref> The journal aims to be "a major force in reducing stigma" against ECT.<ref name=editors/> It is published on behalf of the International Society for ECT and Neurostimulation.<ref name=about/>
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