Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Field ranking · 2003
Neuroscience journal rankings 2003
220 ranked journals · Field in Life Sciences
Neuroscience has 220 ranked journals in 2003. The median journal has an OJR of 0.91, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2002; Q1 starts at OJR 1.34. 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 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 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 | ||
7Frontiers in NeuroendocrinologyElsevier BV · United States | 3.84Q1 | 7.93 1.07 down from 2002 | 40 | 0% | $4,800 | ||
8Journal of Cognitive NeuroscienceThe MIT Press · United States | 3.62Q1 | 6.58 0.32 down from 2002 | 319 | 16% | — | ||
9Brain Research ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.60Q1 | 6.98 0.32 down from 2002 | 249 | 0% | — | ||
10Biological PsychiatryElsevier BV · United States | 3.42Q1 | 7.31 0.55 up from 2002 | 796 | 4% | $5,489 | ||
11Cerebral CortexOxford University Press · United States | 3.33Q1 | 6.51 0.89 down from 2002 | 378 | 27% | $5,038 | ||
12Neuroscience & Biobehavioral ReviewsElsevier BV · United States | 3.25Q1 | 6.70 0.47 up from 2002 | 184 | 3% | $4,860 | ||
13Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.25Q1 | 4.42 1.25 down from 2002 | 302 | 12% | $3,900 | ||
14Journal of NeuroscienceSociety for Neuroscience · United States | 3.10Q1 | 9.26 0.44 up from 2002 | 3,398 | 99% | — | ||
15Human Brain MappingOAWiley · United States | 3.03Q1 | 6.19 1.50 up from 2002 | 237 | 85% | $3,520 | ||
16Journal of Experimental Psychology GeneralAmerican Psychological Association | 3.02Q1 | 4.25 0.34 up from 2002 | 229 | 10% | — | ||
17NeuroImageOAElsevier BV · United States | 2.81Q1 | 6.30 0.98 up from 2002 | 914 | 11% | $3,540 | ||
18Mind & LanguageWiley · United Kingdom | 2.75Q1 | 2.52 1.38 up from 2002 | 87 | 13% | $4,150 | ||
19Current Directions in Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.59Q1 | 3.15 0.86 up from 2002 | 161 | 7% | $3,900 | ||
20Neural ComputationThe MIT Press · United States | 2.54Q1 | 3.93 0.15 up from 2002 | 366 | 10% | — | ||
21Current BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.47Q1 | 7.00 0.43 up from 2002 | 1,833 | 97% | $7,030 | ||
22Cognitive ScienceWiley · United States | 2.32Q1 | 2.93 0.82 up from 2002 | 162 | 34% | $4,000 | ||
23Language and Cognitive ProcessesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.23Q1 | 2.56 0.05 up from 2002 | 80 | 9% | — | ||
24Bilingualism Language and CognitionCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 2.16 1.34 up from 2002 | 80 | 25% | $3,550 | ||
25Molecular PsychiatrySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 2.01Q1 | 4.56 0.74 down from 2002 | 524 | 11% | $5,490 | ||
26Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research ReviewsWiley · United States | 2.00Q1 | 3.90 1.00 up from 2002 | 119 | 2% | — | ||
27Annual Review of NeuroscienceAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.00Q1 | 34.56 7.02 up from 2002 | 86 | 12% | — | ||
28Social CognitionGuilford Press · United States | 2.00Q1 | 1.65 1.05 down from 2002 | 63 | 11% | — | ||
29NeuropsychopharmacologySpringer Nature · United States | 1.99Q1 | 4.85 0.13 down from 2002 | 639 | 13% | $5,290 | ||
30Psychiatry Research NeuroimagingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.97Q1 | 3.86 0.49 up from 2002 | 138 | 4% | $3,110 | ||
31Phenomenology and the Cognitive SciencesSpringer Nature · Netherlands | 1.92Q1 | 1.44no 2002 value | 34 | 0% | $3,190 | — | |
32PsychoneuroendocrinologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.90Q1 | 4.27 0.66 up from 2002 | 208 | 4% | $3,830 | ||
33Cognition & EmotionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.90Q1 | 1.89 0.60 down from 2002 | 161 | 4% | — | ||
34Neurobiology of AgingElsevier BV · United States | 1.88Q1 | 4.36 0.58 down from 2002 | 411 | 4% | $3,430 | ||
35Journal of Memory and LanguageElsevier BV · United States | 1.85Q1 | 3.76 0.20 up from 2002 | 192 | 14% | $4,670 | ||
36NeuropsychologiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.83Q1 | 3.75 0.14 up from 2002 | 583 | 8% | $3,300 | ||
37Visual CognitionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 2.43 1.10 down from 2002 | 123 | 4% | — | ||
38Neuropsychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.68Q1 | 2.75 0.23 up from 2002 | 35 | 8% | $3,890 | ||
39Cognitive Brain ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.66Q1 | 3.20 0.48 up from 2002 | 295 | 8% | — | ||
40Psychonomic Bulletin & ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.61Q1 | 2.68 0.13 up from 2002 | 252 | 95% | $3,790 | ||
41Annual Review of PsychologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.61Q1 | 12.71 0.67 up from 2002 | 97 | 0% | — | ||
42NeuroMolecular MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.57Q1 | 4.03no 2002 value | 36 | 4% | $4,990 | — | |
43British Journal of PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 1.73 0.30 down from 2002 | 104 | 18% | $3,800 | ||
44Journal of NeurophysiologyAmerican Physiological Society · United States | 1.54Q1 | 4.46 0.27 up from 2002 | 1,774 | 6% | — | ||
45Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and CognitionAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.52Q1 | 1.92 0.44 down from 2002 | 584 | 7% | — | ||
46GliaWiley · United States | 1.51Q1 | 4.64 0.36 up from 2002 | 497 | 17% | $5,450 | ||
47Reviews in the NeurosciencesDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.48Q1 | 3.46 0.73 down from 2002 | 56 | 3% | $2,712 | ||
48European Journal of NeuroscienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.47Q1 | 4.46 0.44 up from 2002 | 1,566 | 17% | $3,560 | ||
49PsychopharmacologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.46Q1 | 4.22 0.30 up from 2002 | 936 | 5% | $4,390 | ||
50International Journal of PsychophysiologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.44Q1 | 2.62 0.55 up from 2002 | 273 | 1% | $3,540 |
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.
37 additional 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
- 220
- Window papers (baseline)
- 104,810 +13.0% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.91 +14.0% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 30Comparison-group list (30)
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 | 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.