Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Subfield ranking · 2009
Cognitive Neuroscience journal rankings 2009
193 ranked journals · Subfield in Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience has 193 ranked journals in 2009. The median OJR rose 0.05 on 2008 to 1.07, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.64. The top three are Psychological Review, Nature Neuroscience, and Psychological Science.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2009. 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 2006–2008, the window the 2009 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)
193 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 2008. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2006–2008, the window the 2009 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2006–2008 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 2009. | Compare |
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1Psychological ReviewAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.35Q1 | 8.52 2.46 down from 2008 | 173 | 23% | — | ||
2Nature NeuroscienceNature Portfolio · United States | 4.77Q1 | 12.49 0.08 up from 2008 | 824 | 61% | $12,690 | ||
3Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.71Q1 | 6.95 0.43 up from 2008 | 615 | 28% | $3,900 | ||
4NeuronCell Press · United States | 4.38Q1 | 11.60 1.09 down from 2008 | 1,222 | 99% | $10,400 | ||
5Progress in NeurobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.21Q1 | 11.08 2.15 up from 2008 | 185 | 21% | $5,190 | ||
6Current Directions in Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.17Q1 | 6.30 0.60 up from 2008 | 218 | 32% | $3,900 | ||
7Cognitive ScienceWiley · United States | 4.11Q1 | 4.82 0.37 up from 2008 | 155 | 59% | $4,000 | ||
8Journal of Experimental Psychology GeneralAmerican Psychological Association | 3.82Q1 | 6.57 0.07 down from 2008 | 118 | 33% | — | ||
9Molecular PsychiatrySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 3.80Q1 | 10.70 0.56 up from 2008 | 444 | 48% | $5,490 | ||
10Biological PsychiatryElsevier BV · United States | 3.73Q1 | 8.48 1.20 down from 2008 | 1,176 | 43% | $5,489 | ||
11Neuroscience & Biobehavioral ReviewsElsevier BV · United States | 3.68Q1 | 7.67 0.69 down from 2008 | 298 | 29% | $4,860 | ||
12CognitionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.18Q1 | 4.89 1.11 up from 2008 | 415 | 30% | $3,910 | ||
13Cognitive PsychologyElsevier BV · United States | 3.11Q1 | 4.25 0.01 up from 2008 | 77 | 38% | $3,570 | ||
14Journal of NeuroscienceSociety for Neuroscience · United States | 3.06Q1 | 8.56 0.34 down from 2008 | 4,487 | 100% | — | ||
15Neuropsychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.97Q1 | 6.80 1.25 up from 2008 | 74 | 45% | $3,890 | ||
16Cerebral CortexOxford University Press · United States | 2.84Q1 | 7.33 0.68 up from 2008 | 774 | 69% | $5,038 | ||
17Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research ReviewsWiley · United States | 2.83Q1 | 5.37 1.07 up from 2008 | 82 | — | — | ||
18NeuroImageOAElsevier BV · United States | 2.75Q1 | 6.68 0.15 up from 2008 | 2,268 | 15% | $3,540 | ||
19Current BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.71Q1 | 5.70 0.13 down from 2008 | 2,362 | 100% | $7,030 | ||
20Behavior Research MethodsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.65Q1 | 4.50 1.52 up from 2008 | 336 | 61% | $3,990 | ||
21Social Cognitive and Affective NeuroscienceOAUniversity of Oxford · United Kingdom | 2.63Q1 | 5.90 1.29 up from 2008 | 124 | 100% | $2,379 | ||
22Social NeuroscienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.54Q1 | 3.72 0.40 up from 2008 | 131 | 20% | — | ||
23Physics of Life ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.51Q1 | 4.30 0.74 up from 2008 | 37 | 25% | $4,720 | ||
24Journal of Cognitive NeuroscienceThe MIT Press · United States | 2.45Q1 | 5.36 0.69 down from 2008 | 777 | 51% | — | ||
25Human Brain MappingOAWiley · United States | 2.41Q1 | 5.41 0.53 up from 2008 | 485 | 94% | $3,520 | ||
26IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation EngineeringOAInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.38Q1 | 4.08 0.49 up from 2008 | 246 | 25% | $2,075 | ||
27Brain Structure and FunctionSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.36Q1 | 5.32 1.72 up from 2008 | 60 | 59% | $4,790 | ||
28Annual Review of PsychologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.28Q1 | 17.53 0.10 up from 2008 | 78 | 18% | — | ||
29Cognitive Affective & Behavioral NeuroscienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.28Q1 | 5.68 0.84 up from 2008 | 113 | 100% | $3,190 | ||
30Mind & LanguageWiley · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 3.08 0.63 up from 2008 | 92 | 16% | $4,150 | ||
31Social CognitionGuilford Press · United States | 2.21Q1 | 2.72 0.28 up from 2008 | 124 | 20% | — | ||
32Psychiatry Research NeuroimagingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 4.48 0.06 up from 2008 | 259 | 34% | $3,110 | ||
33Journal of Memory and LanguageElsevier BV · United States | 2.15Q1 | 4.77 1.19 up from 2008 | 232 | 47% | $4,670 | ||
34Annual Review of NeuroscienceAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.11Q1 | 32.67 1.21 down from 2008 | 65 | 53% | — | ||
35The NeuroscientistSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.10Q1 | 5.58 0.60 up from 2008 | 206 | 34% | $4,400 | ||
36Journal of Neural EngineeringIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 5.69 2.04 up from 2008 | 166 | 65% | $3,325 | ||
37Biological PsychologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.06Q1 | 3.72 0.48 down from 2008 | 314 | 25% | $3,440 | ||
38Neurobiology of AgingElsevier BV · United States | 1.94Q1 | 4.34 0.39 down from 2008 | 762 | 31% | $3,430 | ||
39NeuropsychologiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 4.46 0.29 down from 2008 | 984 | 38% | $3,300 | ||
40NanoEthicsOASpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.91Q1 | 3.33 1.01 up from 2008 | 43 | 46% | $3,090 | ||
41Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & PerformanceAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.88Q1 | 3.63 0.62 down from 2008 | 318 | 28% | — | ||
42Nature reviews. NeuroscienceNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 11.12 0.56 down from 2008 | 659 | 19% | — | ||
43Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and CognitionAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.77Q1 | 4.08 0.17 up from 2008 | 313 | 20% | — | ||
44HippocampusWiley · United States | 1.77Q1 | 4.50 1.29 down from 2008 | 377 | 36% | $4,780 | ||
45Neural ComputationThe MIT Press · United States | 1.74Q1 | 3.36 0.26 up from 2008 | 430 | 29% | — | ||
46Criminal Law and PhilosophySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.69Q1 | 1.35 1.07 up from 2008 | 68 | 28% | $3,090 | ||
47Adaptive BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.69Q1 | 3.06 0.32 up from 2008 | 70 | 24% | $4,150 | ||
48British Journal of PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.67Q1 | 2.13 0.32 down from 2008 | 136 | 17% | $3,800 | ||
49Journal of Speech Language and Hearing ResearchAmerican Speech–Language–Hearing Association · United States | 1.64Q1 | 2.96 0.09 up from 2008 | 371 | 44% | — | ||
50Language and Cognitive ProcessesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.64Q2 | 2.91 0.62 up from 2008 | 141 | 27% | — |
Subfields of Neuroscience, with Cognitive Neuroscience highlighted.
- Cognitive Neuroscience193
- Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience27
- Neurology13
- Sensory Systems6
- Behavioral Neuroscience3
- Endocrine and Autonomic Systems3
- Biological Psychiatry2
- Developmental Neuroscience1
Journals
Citations made in 2009. Corpus-wide, 71.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
53 additional Cognitive Neuroscience journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2006–2008, 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: 2009. Publication window: 2006–2008. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 193
- Window papers (baseline)
- 51,957 +23.7% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 1.069 +1.6% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 26
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2006–2008 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.