Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Subfield ranking · 2003
Cognitive Neuroscience journal rankings 2003
170 ranked journals · Subfield in Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience has 170 ranked journals in 2003. The median journal has an OJR of 0.93, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2002; Q1 starts at OJR 1.44. The top three are Cognitive Psychology, Progress in Neurobiology, and Nature Neuroscience.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. 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 2000–2002, the window the 2003 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)
170 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 2002. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2000–2002 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 2003. | Compare |
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1Cognitive PsychologyElsevier BV · United States | 6.13Q1 | 5.74 0.41 down from 2002 | 59 | 8% | $3,570 | ||
2Progress in NeurobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.85Q1 | 14.46 3.17 up from 2002 | 183 | 5% | $5,190 | ||
3Nature NeuroscienceNature Portfolio · United States | 4.52Q1 | 10.67 0.61 down from 2002 | 868 | 15% | $12,690 | ||
4NeuronCell Press · United States | 4.51Q1 | 13.17 0.54 up from 2002 | 1,146 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
5Psychological ReviewAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.51Q1 | 5.82 0.15 down from 2002 | 235 | 5% | — | ||
6CognitionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.35Q1 | 6.02 0.63 up from 2002 | 219 | 12% | $3,910 | ||
7Journal of Cognitive NeuroscienceThe MIT Press · United States | 3.62Q1 | 6.58 0.32 down from 2002 | 319 | 16% | — | ||
8Biological PsychiatryElsevier BV · United States | 3.42Q1 | 7.31 0.55 up from 2002 | 796 | 4% | $5,489 | ||
9Cerebral CortexOxford University Press · United States | 3.33Q1 | 6.51 0.89 down from 2002 | 378 | 27% | $5,038 | ||
10Neuroscience & Biobehavioral ReviewsElsevier BV · United States | 3.25Q1 | 6.70 0.47 up from 2002 | 184 | 3% | $4,860 | ||
11Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.25Q1 | 4.42 1.25 down from 2002 | 302 | 12% | $3,900 | ||
12Journal of NeuroscienceSociety for Neuroscience · United States | 3.10Q1 | 9.26 0.44 up from 2002 | 3,398 | 99% | — | ||
13Human Brain MappingOAWiley · United States | 3.03Q1 | 6.19 1.50 up from 2002 | 237 | 85% | $3,520 | ||
14Journal of Experimental Psychology GeneralAmerican Psychological Association | 3.02Q1 | 4.25 0.34 up from 2002 | 229 | 10% | — | ||
15NeuroImageOAElsevier BV · United States | 2.81Q1 | 6.30 0.98 up from 2002 | 914 | 11% | $3,540 | ||
16Mind & LanguageWiley · United Kingdom | 2.75Q1 | 2.52 1.38 up from 2002 | 87 | 13% | $4,150 | ||
17Current Directions in Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.59Q1 | 3.15 0.86 up from 2002 | 161 | 7% | $3,900 | ||
18Neural ComputationThe MIT Press · United States | 2.54Q1 | 3.93 0.15 up from 2002 | 366 | 10% | — | ||
19Current BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.47Q1 | 7.00 0.43 up from 2002 | 1,833 | 97% | $7,030 | ||
20Cognitive ScienceWiley · United States | 2.32Q1 | 2.93 0.82 up from 2002 | 162 | 34% | $4,000 | ||
21Language and Cognitive ProcessesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.23Q1 | 2.56 0.05 up from 2002 | 80 | 9% | — | ||
22Bilingualism Language and CognitionCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 2.16 1.34 up from 2002 | 80 | 25% | $3,550 | ||
23Molecular PsychiatrySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 4.56 0.74 down from 2002 | 524 | 11% | $5,490 | ||
24Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research ReviewsWiley · United States | 2.00Q1 | 3.90 1.00 up from 2002 | 119 | 2% | — | ||
25Annual Review of NeuroscienceAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.00Q1 | 34.56 7.02 up from 2002 | 86 | 12% | — | ||
26Social CognitionGuilford Press · United States | 2.00Q1 | 1.65 1.05 down from 2002 | 63 | 11% | — | ||
27Psychiatry Research NeuroimagingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.97Q1 | 3.86 0.49 up from 2002 | 138 | 4% | $3,110 | ||
28Phenomenology and the Cognitive SciencesSpringer Nature · Netherlands | 1.92Q1 | 1.44no 2002 value | 34 | 0% | $3,190 | — | |
29Cognition & EmotionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.90Q1 | 1.89 0.60 down from 2002 | 161 | 4% | — | ||
30Neurobiology of AgingElsevier BV · United States | 1.88Q1 | 4.36 0.58 down from 2002 | 411 | 4% | $3,430 | ||
31Journal of Memory and LanguageElsevier BV · United States | 1.85Q1 | 3.76 0.20 up from 2002 | 192 | 14% | $4,670 | ||
32NeuropsychologiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.83Q1 | 3.75 0.14 up from 2002 | 583 | 8% | $3,300 | ||
33Visual CognitionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 2.43 1.10 down from 2002 | 123 | 4% | — | ||
34Neuropsychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.68Q1 | 2.75 0.23 up from 2002 | 35 | 8% | $3,890 | ||
35Cognitive Brain ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.66Q1 | 3.20 0.48 up from 2002 | 295 | 8% | — | ||
36Psychonomic Bulletin & ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.61Q1 | 2.68 0.13 up from 2002 | 252 | 95% | $3,790 | ||
37Annual Review of PsychologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.61Q1 | 12.71 0.67 up from 2002 | 97 | 0% | — | ||
38British Journal of PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 1.73 0.30 down from 2002 | 104 | 18% | $3,800 | ||
39Journal of NeurophysiologyAmerican Physiological Society · United States | 1.54Q1 | 4.46 0.27 up from 2002 | 1,774 | 6% | — | ||
40Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and CognitionAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.52Q1 | 1.92 0.44 down from 2002 | 584 | 7% | — | ||
41Reviews in the NeurosciencesDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.48Q1 | 3.46 0.73 down from 2002 | 56 | 3% | $2,712 | ||
42European Journal of NeuroscienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.47Q1 | 4.46 0.44 up from 2002 | 1,566 | 17% | $3,560 | ||
43International Journal of PsychophysiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.44Q1 | 2.62 0.55 up from 2002 | 273 | 1% | $3,540 | ||
44Cognitive NeuropsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.43Q2 | 2.19 0.83 down from 2002 | 130 | 16% | — | ||
45Audiology and NeurotologyKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.39Q2 | 2.16 0.14 down from 2002 | 134 | 31% | — | ||
46NeuroscienceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.39Q2 | 3.93 0.15 up from 2002 | 1,725 | 5% | $3,500 | ||
47Cognitive Affective & Behavioral NeuroscienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.34Q2 | 2.85 1.46 up from 2002 | 61 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
48Behavioural Brain ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.34Q2 | 3.33 0.13 up from 2002 | 786 | 3% | $3,590 | ||
49Nature reviews. NeuroscienceNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 1.33Q2 | 8.36 1.46 up from 2002 | 620 | 4% | — | ||
50Journal of Autism and Developmental DisordersSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.33Q2 | 2.32 0.12 up from 2002 | 197 | 3% | $3,190 |
Subfields of Neuroscience, with Cognitive Neuroscience highlighted.
- Cognitive Neuroscience170
- Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience27
- Neurology9
- Endocrine and Autonomic Systems4
- Sensory Systems4
- Behavioral Neuroscience3
- Biological Psychiatry2
- Developmental Neuroscience1
Journals
Citations made in 2003. Corpus-wide, 70.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
31 additional Cognitive Neuroscience journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2000–2002, 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: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 170
- Window papers (baseline)
- 34,371 +20.9% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.93 +10.4% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 26
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2000–2002 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.