Journal rankings · indicator year 2006
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Subfield ranking · 2006
Cognitive Neuroscience journal rankings 2006
177 ranked journals · Subfield in Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience has 177 ranked journals in 2006. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.05 against 1.00, up 0.04 on 2005. A journal needs OJR 1.63 to reach Q1. The top three are Progress in Neurobiology, Psychological Review, and Journal of Experimental Psychology General.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2006. 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 2003–2005, the window the 2006 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)
177 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 2005. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2003–2005, the window the 2006 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2003–2005 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 2006. | Compare |
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1Progress in NeurobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.33Q1 | 12.59 0.32 up from 2005 | 153 | 9% | $5,190 | ||
2Psychological ReviewAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.21Q1 | 8.70 1.36 up from 2005 | 178 | 6% | — | ||
3Journal of Experimental Psychology GeneralAmerican Psychological Association | 4.86Q1 | 7.22 0.85 up from 2005 | 120 | 14% | — | ||
4Nature NeuroscienceNature Portfolio · United States | 4.69Q1 | 13.13 1.81 up from 2005 | 875 | 20% | $12,690 | ||
5NeuronCell Press · United States | 4.53Q1 | 12.91 0.06 down from 2005 | 1,271 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
6Neuroscience & Biobehavioral ReviewsElsevier BV · United States | 3.92Q1 | 9.41 1.88 up from 2005 | 249 | 16% | $4,860 | ||
7Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.89Q1 | 5.26 1.24 down from 2005 | 493 | 11% | $3,900 | ||
8Cognitive PsychologyElsevier BV · United States | 3.65Q1 | 3.53 0.57 up from 2005 | 112 | 16% | $3,570 | ||
9Biological PsychiatryElsevier BV · United States | 3.36Q1 | 8.57 0.65 up from 2005 | 1,059 | 15% | $5,489 | ||
10CognitionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.25Q1 | 4.85 0.42 down from 2005 | 300 | 20% | $3,910 | ||
11Mind & LanguageWiley · United Kingdom | 3.13Q1 | 3.62 1.21 up from 2005 | 94 | 15% | $4,150 | ||
12Journal of Cognitive NeuroscienceThe MIT Press · United States | 3.02Q1 | 6.65 0.72 up from 2005 | 442 | 30% | — | ||
13Molecular PsychiatrySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 3.00Q1 | 10.27 2.93 up from 2005 | 476 | 13% | $5,490 | ||
14Journal of NeuroscienceSociety for Neuroscience · United States | 2.93Q1 | 9.08 0.45 up from 2005 | 3,779 | 99% | — | ||
15NeuroImageOAElsevier BV · United States | 2.65Q1 | 6.32 0.26 up from 2005 | 1,876 | 15% | $3,540 | ||
16Current Directions in Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.64Q1 | 3.84 0.32 up from 2005 | 185 | 13% | $3,900 | ||
17Cerebral CortexOxford University Press · United States | 2.52Q1 | 6.35 0.20 up from 2005 | 615 | 54% | $5,038 | ||
18Neural ComputationThe MIT Press · United States | 2.47Q1 | 3.79 0.31 down from 2005 | 341 | 8% | — | ||
19Human Brain MappingOAWiley · United States | 2.42Q1 | 5.25 0.13 up from 2005 | 287 | 88% | $3,520 | ||
20Bilingualism Language and CognitionCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.41Q1 | 2.27 0.89 up from 2005 | 65 | 29% | $3,550 | ||
21Journal of Memory and LanguageElsevier BV · United States | 2.36Q1 | 3.70 0.44 up from 2005 | 253 | 20% | $4,670 | ||
22Cognitive Affective & Behavioral NeuroscienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.31Q1 | 4.60 0.15 up from 2005 | 114 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
23Annual Review of NeuroscienceAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.24Q1 | 37.24 9.55 up from 2005 | 70 | 10% | — | ||
24Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience ReviewsSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.23Q1 | 4.93 1.49 up from 2005 | 47 | 17% | — | ||
25Current BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.20Q1 | 5.78 0.22 down from 2005 | 2,256 | 100% | $7,030 | ||
26British Journal of PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.14Q1 | 2.42 0.80 down from 2005 | 98 | 13% | $3,800 | ||
27Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & ComputersSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.03Q1 | 3.34 1.49 up from 2005 | 157 | — | — | ||
28Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research ReviewsWiley · United States | 1.99Q1 | 4.20 0.71 up from 2005 | 124 | 17% | — | ||
29Neuropsychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.99Q1 | 3.79 0.61 down from 2005 | 36 | 20% | $3,890 | ||
30Cognitive ScienceWiley · United States | 1.97Q1 | 2.42 0.22 up from 2005 | 240 | 56% | $4,000 | ||
31Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and CognitionAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.95Q1 | 3.75 0.49 up from 2005 | 355 | 19% | — | ||
32NeuropsychologiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 4.03 0.17 down from 2005 | 671 | 18% | $3,300 | ||
33Cognition & EmotionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.92Q1 | 2.67 0.71 up from 2005 | 190 | 6% | — | ||
34Adaptive BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.91Q1 | 2.62 0.16 up from 2005 | 57 | 17% | $4,150 | ||
35IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation EngineeringOAInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.86Q1 | 3.43 0.30 up from 2005 | 214 | 9% | $2,075 | ||
36Cognitive Brain ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.81Q1 | 3.44 0.35 up from 2005 | 604 | — | — | ||
37Psychiatry Research NeuroimagingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.78Q1 | 3.36 0.47 down from 2005 | 226 | 13% | $3,110 | ||
38The NeuroscientistSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.77Q1 | 5.67 1.94 up from 2005 | 202 | 5% | $4,400 | ||
39Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & PerformanceAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.74Q1 | 2.91 0.82 down from 2005 | 294 | 22% | — | ||
40NeuroinformaticsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.73Q1 | 3.82 0.94 up from 2005 | 81 | 7% | $4,890 | ||
41Language and Cognitive ProcessesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.73Q1 | 2.17 0.42 down from 2005 | 113 | 20% | — | ||
42Neurobiology of AgingElsevier BV · United States | 1.70Q1 | 4.48 0.29 up from 2005 | 637 | 17% | $3,430 | ||
43Social CognitionGuilford Press · United States | 1.69Q1 | 1.82 0.43 up from 2005 | 75 | 10% | — | ||
44Annual Review of PsychologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.68Q1 | 14.44 6.21 up from 2005 | 78 | 19% | — | ||
45European Journal of NeuroscienceWiley · United Kingdom | 1.63Q1 | 4.59 0.05 down from 2005 | 2,103 | 17% | $3,560 | ||
46Cognitive NeuropsychologyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.63Q2 | 2.68 0.97 down from 2005 | 163 | 14% | — | ||
47Reviews in the NeurosciencesDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.60Q2 | 4.88 1.46 up from 2005 | 75 | 6% | $2,712 | ||
48Journal of Speech Language and Hearing ResearchAmerican Speech–Language–Hearing Association · United States | 1.58Q2 | 2.64 0.36 up from 2005 | 327 | 12% | — | ||
49Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie)Hogrefe Verlag · Germany | 1.55Q2 | 2.87 1.07 up from 2005 | 114 | 9% | — | ||
50Psychonomic Bulletin & ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.52Q2 | 3.01 0.50 up from 2005 | 368 | 85% | $3,790 |
Subfields of Neuroscience, with Cognitive Neuroscience highlighted.
- Cognitive Neuroscience177
- Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience32
- Neurology10
- Sensory Systems4
- Behavioral Neuroscience3
- Biological Psychiatry2
- Endocrine and Autonomic Systems2
- Developmental Neuroscience1
Journals
Citations made in 2006. Corpus-wide, 71.3% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
35 additional Cognitive Neuroscience journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2003–2005, 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: 2006. Publication window: 2003–2005. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 177
- Window papers (baseline)
- 41,997 +22.2% from indicator year 2003
- Median OJR
- 1.05 +13.7% from indicator year 2003
- Rising journals (2025)
- 26
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2003–2005 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.