Journal rankings · indicator year 2002
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Subfield ranking · 2002
Cognitive Neuroscience journal rankings 2002
162 ranked journals · Subfield in Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience has 162 ranked journals in 2002. The median journal has an OJR of 0.90, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2001; Q1 starts at OJR 1.35. The top three are Cognitive Psychology, Psychological Review, and Progress in Neurobiology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2002. 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 1999–2001, the window the 2002 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 of Neuroscience (8)
162 ranked journals
Filters
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 2001. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1999–2001, the window the 2002 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1999–2001 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 2002. | Compare |
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1Cognitive PsychologyElsevier BV · United States | 6.39Q1 | 6.15 1.31 up from 2001 | 54 | 7% | $3,570 | ||
2Psychological ReviewAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.97Q1 | 5.97 2.08 up from 2001 | 227 | 7% | — | ||
3Progress in NeurobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.81Q1 | 11.29 1.18 up from 2001 | 195 | 5% | $5,190 | ||
4Nature NeuroscienceNature Portfolio · United States | 4.76Q1 | 11.28 0.15 up from 2001 | 795 | 15% | $12,690 | ||
5NeuronCell Press · United States | 4.52Q1 | 12.63 0.30 down from 2001 | 1,010 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
6CognitionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.22Q1 | 5.39 2.25 up from 2001 | 197 | 13% | $3,910 | ||
7Social CognitionGuilford Press · United States | 4.10Q1 | 2.70 0.70 up from 2001 | 64 | 5% | — | ||
8Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.39Q1 | 5.67 2.38 up from 2001 | 287 | 6% | $3,900 | ||
9Journal of Cognitive NeuroscienceThe MIT Press · United States | 3.22Q1 | 6.90 0.75 up from 2001 | 271 | 18% | — | ||
10Neuroscience & Biobehavioral ReviewsElsevier BV · United States | 3.10Q1 | 6.22 0.55 up from 2001 | 176 | 6% | $4,860 | ||
11Journal of NeuroscienceSociety for Neuroscience · United States | 3.07Q1 | 8.82 0.28 up from 2001 | 3,271 | 99% | — | ||
12Cerebral CortexOxford University Press · United States | 3.07Q1 | 7.40 0.48 up from 2001 | 313 | 31% | $5,038 | ||
13Biological PsychiatryElsevier BV · United States | 2.98Q1 | 6.76 1.20 up from 2001 | 942 | 4% | $5,489 | ||
14Cognitive ScienceWiley · United States | 2.95Q1 | 2.11 0.39 down from 2001 | 142 | 34% | $4,000 | ||
15Neural ComputationThe MIT Press · United States | 2.79Q1 | 3.79 1.04 down from 2001 | 342 | 12% | — | ||
16Journal of Experimental Psychology GeneralAmerican Psychological Association | 2.77Q1 | 3.92 0.96 up from 2001 | 210 | 8% | — | ||
17Human Brain MappingOAWiley · United States | 2.68Q1 | 4.69 0.68 up from 2001 | 237 | 79% | $3,520 | ||
18NeuroImageOAElsevier BV · United States | 2.58Q1 | 5.32 0.34 up from 2001 | 662 | 10% | $3,540 | ||
19Current BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.40Q1 | 6.57 0.36 up from 2001 | 1,840 | 100% | $7,030 | ||
20Journal of Memory and LanguageElsevier BV · United States | 2.39Q1 | 3.56 0.93 up from 2001 | 187 | 12% | $4,670 | ||
21Current Directions in Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.29Q1 | 2.29 0.26 up from 2001 | 155 | 4% | $3,900 | ||
22Cognition & EmotionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.25Q1 | 2.50 0.18 up from 2001 | 158 | 15% | — | ||
23Reviews in the NeurosciencesDe Gruyter · Germany | 2.06Q1 | 4.19 0.22 up from 2001 | 55 | 7% | $2,712 | ||
24Annual Review of NeuroscienceAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.99Q1 | 27.54 3.75 down from 2001 | 88 | 0% | — | ||
25Psychiatry Research NeuroimagingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.99Q1 | 3.37 0.42 up from 2001 | 131 | 4% | $3,110 | ||
26Language and Cognitive ProcessesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.88Q1 | 2.51 0.42 up from 2001 | 80 | 16% | — | ||
27Molecular PsychiatrySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 5.29 1.70 up from 2001 | 378 | 10% | $5,490 | ||
28Neurobiology of AgingElsevier BV · United States | 1.85Q1 | 4.95 1.66 up from 2001 | 314 | 2% | $3,430 | ||
29Psychonomic Bulletin & ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.72Q1 | 2.56 0.17 up from 2001 | 233 | 100% | $3,790 | ||
30Annual Review of PsychologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.70Q1 | 12.04 3.78 up from 2001 | 77 | 17% | — | ||
31British Journal of PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 2.03 0.54 up from 2001 | 116 | 8% | $3,800 | ||
32Cognitive NeuropsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.68Q1 | 3.02 0.08 down from 2001 | 133 | 6% | — | ||
33NeuropsychologiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.65Q1 | 3.61 0.37 up from 2001 | 434 | 8% | $3,300 | ||
34Adaptive BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.60Q1 | 1.32 0.19 up from 2001 | 49 | 15% | $4,150 | ||
35Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and CognitionAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.60Q1 | 2.36 0.59 up from 2001 | 584 | 5% | — | ||
36Journal of NeurophysiologyAmerican Physiological Society · United States | 1.57Q1 | 4.19 0.48 up from 2001 | 1,787 | 11% | — | ||
37European Journal of NeuroscienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 4.02 0.38 up from 2001 | 1,533 | 16% | $3,560 | ||
38Visual CognitionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.50Q1 | 3.53 0.69 up from 2001 | 110 | 13% | — | ||
39Cognitive Brain ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.48Q1 | 2.72 0.47 down from 2001 | 245 | 9% | — | ||
40Psychological ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.45Q1 | 1.86 0.09 down from 2001 | 96 | 10% | $3,190 | ||
41Mind & LanguageWiley · United Kingdom | 1.35Q1 | 1.13 0.41 down from 2001 | 81 | 9% | $4,150 | ||
42Memory & CognitionSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.34Q2 | 1.85 0.10 up from 2001 | 367 | 96% | $3,190 | ||
43Journal of Autism and Developmental DisordersSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.34Q2 | 2.20 0.08 down from 2001 | 197 | 7% | $3,190 | ||
44NeuroscienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.32Q2 | 3.78 0.42 up from 2001 | 2,162 | 3% | $3,500 | ||
45Journal of Speech Language and Hearing ResearchAmerican Speech–Language–Hearing Association · United States | 1.30Q2 | 1.73 0.13 down from 2001 | 344 | 4% | — | ||
46Behavioural Brain ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.29Q2 | 3.19 0.52 up from 2001 | 635 | 4% | $3,590 | ||
47Audiology and NeurotologyKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.28Q2 | 2.30 0.03 up from 2001 | 115 | 27% | — | ||
48Journal of Computational NeuroscienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.24Q2 | 2.50 0.38 down from 2001 | 91 | 13% | $3,990 | ||
49Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & PerformanceAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.22Q2 | 2.01 0.05 down from 2001 | 647 | 8% | — | ||
50Nature reviews. NeuroscienceNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 1.22Q2 | 6.89 2.91 up from 2001 | 349 | 2% | — |
Subfields of Neuroscience, with Cognitive Neuroscience highlighted.
- Cognitive Neuroscience162
- Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience26
- Neurology8
- Endocrine and Autonomic Systems4
- Sensory Systems4
- Behavioral Neuroscience3
- Biological Psychiatry2
- Developmental Neuroscience1
Journals
Citations made in 2002. Corpus-wide, 69.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
33 additional Cognitive Neuroscience journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1999–2001, 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: 2002. Publication window: 1999–2001. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 162
- Window papers (baseline)
- 32,268 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Median OJR
- 0.904 Change unavailable from indicator year 1999
- Rising journals (2025)
- 26
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1999–2001 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 | 150 | 154 | 162 | 170 | 174 | 177 | 177 | 181 | 185 | 193 | 208 | 215 | 222 | 226 | 228 | 240 | 247 | 250 | 255 | 260 | 260 | 270 | 279 | 285 | 290 | 287 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 28,433 | 30,521 | 32,268 | 34,371 | 36,150 | 39,427 | 41,997 | 45,015 | 47,192 | 51,957 | 56,014 | 66,018 | 69,858 | 74,025 | 73,499 | 76,687 | 79,536 | 79,867 | 81,209 | 83,221 | 87,071 | 90,824 | 95,729 | 98,039 | 100,191 | 100,706 | |
| Median OJR | 0.84 | 0.877 | 0.904 | 0.93 | 0.94 | 1.01 | 1.05 | 1.016 | 1.0179 | 1.069 | 1.10 | 1.08 | 1.17 | 1.15 | 1.12 | 1.061 | 1.066 | 1.058 | 1.0181 | 1.068 | 0.98 | 0.92 | 0.91 | 0.901 | 0.89 | 0.880 |
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.