Journal rankings · indicator year 2000
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Field ranking · 2000
Neuroscience journal rankings 2000
196 ranked journals · Field in Life Sciences
Neuroscience has 196 ranked journals in 2000. The median journal has an OJR of 0.79, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.34. The top three are Neuron, Brain Research Reviews, and Nature Neuroscience.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2000. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 1997–1999, the window the 2000 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields in Neuroscience (8)
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Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 1999. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1997–1999, the window the 2000 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1997–1999 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2000. | Compare |
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1NeuronCell Press · United States | 5.28Q1 | 14.55no 1999 value | 813 | 98% | $10,400 | — | |
2Brain Research ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.51Q1 | 10.24no 1999 value | 143 | 4% | — | — | |
3Nature NeuroscienceNature Portfolio · United States | 4.41Q1 | 10.03no 1999 value | 397 | 13% | $12,690 | — | |
4Cognitive PsychologyElsevier BV · United States | 4.28Q1 | 4.27no 1999 value | 65 | 15% | $3,570 | — | |
5Psychological ReviewAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.18Q1 | 4.04no 1999 value | 206 | 5% | — | — | |
6Progress in NeurobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.76Q1 | 10.44no 1999 value | 202 | 3% | $5,190 | — | |
7Frontiers in NeuroendocrinologyElsevier BV · United States | 3.75Q1 | 10.21no 1999 value | 33 | 18% | $4,800 | — | |
8Critical Reviews in NeurobiologyBegell House · United States | 3.54Q1 | 8.81no 1999 value | 40 | 0% | — | — | |
9Journal of Cognitive NeuroscienceThe MIT Press · United States | 3.31Q1 | 4.63no 1999 value | 188 | 14% | — | — | |
10Journal of NeuroscienceSociety for Neuroscience · United States | 3.15Q1 | 8.97no 1999 value | 2,961 | 100% | — | — | |
11CognitionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.92Q1 | 3.11no 1999 value | 175 | 10% | $3,910 | — | |
12Neural ComputationThe MIT Press · United States | 2.90Q1 | 3.72no 1999 value | 299 | 9% | — | — | |
13Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.87Q1 | 3.22no 1999 value | 278 | 8% | $3,900 | — | |
14Cerebral CortexOxford University Press · United States | 2.70Q1 | 5.26no 1999 value | 223 | 20% | $5,038 | — | |
15Current BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.66Q1 | 6.76no 1999 value | 1,622 | 100% | $7,030 | — | |
16Human Brain MappingOAWiley · United States | 2.50Q1 | 3.87no 1999 value | 214 | 82% | $3,520 | — | |
17Journal of Memory and LanguageElsevier BV · United States | 2.24Q1 | 2.83no 1999 value | 186 | 5% | $4,670 | — | |
18Journal of Experimental Psychology GeneralAmerican Psychological Association | 2.09Q1 | 2.46no 1999 value | 146 | 1% | — | — | |
19Annual Review of NeuroscienceAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.07Q1 | 29.11no 1999 value | 59 | 0% | — | — | |
20Cognition & EmotionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 2.33no 1999 value | 114 | 11% | — | — | |
21Neuroscience & Biobehavioral ReviewsElsevier BV · United States | 2.00Q1 | 3.64no 1999 value | 221 | 3% | $4,860 | — | |
22Annual Review of PsychologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.98Q1 | 7.23no 1999 value | 70 | 0% | — | — | |
23Biological PsychiatryElsevier BV · United States | 1.96Q1 | 4.58no 1999 value | 1,040 | 5% | $5,489 | — | |
24Cognitive ScienceWiley · United States | 1.92Q1 | 1.39no 1999 value | 104 | 40% | $4,000 | — | |
25NeuropsychopharmacologySpringer Nature · United States | 1.85Q1 | 4.59no 1999 value | 372 | 14% | $5,290 | — | |
26Social CognitionGuilford Press · United States | 1.83Q1 | 1.68no 1999 value | 57 | 5% | — | — | |
27Current Directions in Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 1.89no 1999 value | 124 | 5% | $3,900 | — | |
28Adaptive BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.70Q1 | 1.03no 1999 value | 50 | 13% | $4,150 | — | |
29Molecular PsychiatrySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 4.29no 1999 value | 294 | 7% | $5,490 | — | |
30NeuropsychologiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.63Q1 | 2.90no 1999 value | 431 | 10% | $3,300 | — | |
31Cognitive Brain ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.60Q1 | 3.13no 1999 value | 131 | 11% | — | — | |
32Psychonomic Bulletin & ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.57Q1 | 1.92no 1999 value | 225 | 80% | $3,790 | — | |
33Reviews in the NeurosciencesDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.56Q1 | 3.09no 1999 value | 49 | 0% | $2,712 | — | |
34Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and CognitionAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.54Q1 | 1.97no 1999 value | 542 | 4% | — | — | |
35Language and Cognitive ProcessesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.53Q1 | 1.13no 1999 value | 78 | 10% | — | — | |
36British Journal of PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.51Q1 | 1.42no 1999 value | 123 | 5% | $3,800 | — | |
37Cognitive NeuropsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.51Q1 | 1.91no 1999 value | 103 | 3% | — | — | |
38Journal of NeurophysiologyAmerican Physiological Society · United States | 1.50Q1 | 4.18no 1999 value | 1,844 | 11% | — | — | |
39Trends in NeurosciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.50Q1 | 9.51no 1999 value | 391 | 6% | $7,030 | — | |
40NeuropharmacologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.50Q1 | 4.04no 1999 value | 550 | 3% | $4,300 | — | |
41Journal of Speech Language and Hearing ResearchAmerican Speech–Language–Hearing Association · United States | 1.47Q1 | 2.06no 1999 value | 367 | 5% | — | — | |
42PsychophysiologyWiley · United States | 1.47Q1 | 2.22no 1999 value | 307 | 8% | $4,020 | — | |
43Psychiatry Research NeuroimagingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.46Q1 | 2.42no 1999 value | 143 | 0% | $3,110 | — | |
44HippocampusWiley · United States | 1.45Q1 | 3.76no 1999 value | 267 | 3% | $4,780 | — | |
45European Journal of NeuroscienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.42Q1 | 3.70no 1999 value | 1,235 | 13% | $3,560 | — | |
46Neurobiology of Learning and MemoryElsevier BV · United States | 1.39Q1 | 3.05no 1999 value | 164 | 2% | $4,000 | — | |
47Memory & CognitionSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.37Q1 | 1.79no 1999 value | 289 | 98% | $3,190 | — | |
48NeuroscienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.35Q1 | 3.38no 1999 value | 2,209 | 5% | $3,500 | — | |
49Cell CalciumElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.34Q1 | 3.93no 1999 value | 250 | 8% | $3,950 | — | |
50PsychoneuroendocrinologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.30Q2 | 3.31no 1999 value | 201 | 0% | $3,830 | — |
Citations made in 2000. Corpus-wide, 66.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
40 additional Neuroscience journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1997–1999, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2000. Publication window: 1997–1999. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 196
- Window papers (baseline)
- 92,779 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Median OJR
- 0.79 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Rising journals (2025)
- 30Comparison-group list (30)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1997–1999 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 196 | 201 | 210 | 220 | 223 | 230 | 231 | 238 | 242 | 248 | 266 | 276 | 290 | 292 | 295 | 306 | 314 | 319 | 321 | 328 | 332 | 344 | 352 | 356 | 360 | 355 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 92,779 | 97,762 | 100,667 | 104,810 | 108,324 | 115,003 | 120,244 | 126,308 | 131,531 | 143,118 | 150,842 | 164,012 | 167,583 | 173,307 | 175,900 | 181,549 | 185,572 | 184,543 | 184,806 | 187,130 | 193,371 | 201,253 | 210,793 | 215,142 | 216,969 | 218,119 | |
| Median OJR | 0.79 | 0.84 | 0.889 | 0.91 | 0.924 | 0.998 | 1.04 | 0.9996 | 1.024 | 1.094 | 1.146 | 1.136 | 1.16 | 1.150 | 1.141 | 1.086 | 1.083 | 1.076 | 1.022 | 1.06 | 1.01 | 0.93 | 0.918 | 0.90 | 0.890 | 0.86 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.2% | 293 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 0.951 per 1,000 | 257 journals |
| Output growth | Median: -9.4% | 327 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 68.0% | 355 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $3,555 | 226 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 27.0% | 344 journals |
| Review share | Median: 1.4% | 355 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.86 | 349 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 27.2% | 355 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 43.1% | 355 journals |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.