Journal rankings · indicator year 2011
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Field ranking · 2011
Neuroscience journal rankings 2011
276 ranked journals · Field in Life Sciences
Neuroscience has 276 ranked journals in 2011. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.14 against 1.00, down 0.01 on 2010. A journal needs OJR 1.76 to reach Q1. The top three are Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, Nature Neuroscience, and Psychological Review.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2011. 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 2008–2010, the window the 2011 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 2010. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2008–2010, the window the 2011 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2008–2010 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 2002 to 2011. | Compare |
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1Frontiers in NeuroendocrinologyElsevier BV · United States | 6.09Q1 | 12.52 0.43 down from 2010 | 104 | 42% | $4,800 | ||
2Nature NeuroscienceNature Portfolio · United States | 5.35Q1 | 14.60 1.90 up from 2010 | 832 | 69% | $12,690 | ||
3Psychological ReviewAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 5.13Q1 | 9.04 0.27 up from 2010 | 185 | 14% | — | ||
4NeuronCell Press · United States | 4.97Q1 | 13.99 1.35 up from 2010 | 1,224 | 99% | $10,400 | ||
5Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.66Q1 | 6.32 0.31 down from 2010 | 816 | 29% | $3,900 | ||
6Progress in NeurobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.64Q1 | 11.18 0.05 up from 2010 | 201 | 36% | $5,190 | ||
7Current Directions in Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.35Q1 | 6.98 0.93 up from 2010 | 222 | 24% | $3,900 | ||
8Neuroscience & Biobehavioral ReviewsElsevier BV · United States | 3.80Q1 | 9.62 0.56 up from 2010 | 382 | 23% | $4,860 | ||
9Brain Research ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.73Q1 | 9.72 0.46 up from 2010 | 192 | 39% | — | ||
10Cognitive PsychologyElsevier BV · United States | 3.70Q1 | 5.73 0.23 down from 2010 | 75 | 36% | $3,570 | ||
11Molecular PsychiatrySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 3.67Q1 | 10.12 0.75 down from 2010 | 426 | 66% | $5,490 | ||
12Journal of Experimental Psychology GeneralAmerican Psychological Association | 3.59Q1 | 5.47 1.15 down from 2010 | 113 | 28% | — | ||
13IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental DevelopmentInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.46Q1 | 3.98 1.32 up from 2010 | 65 | 8% | — | ||
14Brain Structure and FunctionSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 3.38Q1 | 7.51 1.62 up from 2010 | 130 | 32% | $4,790 | ||
15Behavior Research MethodsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 3.26Q1 | 3.46 0.36 down from 2010 | 409 | 99% | $3,990 | ||
16NeuropsychopharmacologySpringer Nature · United States | 3.21Q1 | 9.20 2.50 up from 2010 | 688 | 100% | $5,290 | ||
17Journal of NeuroscienceSociety for Neuroscience · United States | 3.19Q1 | 8.91 0.13 up from 2010 | 4,808 | 100% | — | ||
18Neuropsychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.17Q1 | 7.81 1.78 up from 2010 | 96 | 50% | $3,890 | ||
19Biological PsychiatryElsevier BV · United States | 3.14Q1 | 8.13 0.91 up from 2010 | 1,210 | 40% | $5,489 | ||
20Human Brain MappingOAWiley · United States | 3.09Q1 | 6.49 0.12 down from 2010 | 634 | 96% | $3,520 | ||
21Topics in Cognitive ScienceWiley · United States | 3.08Q1 | 4.48 1.63 up from 2010 | 117 | 51% | $3,470 | ||
22Frontiers in Integrative NeuroscienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 3.04Q1 | 6.52 0.58 up from 2010 | 59 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
23CognitionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.02Q1 | 4.81 0.43 up from 2010 | 469 | 33% | $3,910 | ||
24Social Cognitive and Affective NeuroscienceOAUniversity of Oxford · United Kingdom | 3.00Q1 | 5.58 0.24 down from 2010 | 207 | 100% | $2,379 | ||
25Cerebral CortexOxford University Press · United States | 2.93Q1 | 6.62 0.36 down from 2010 | 830 | 68% | $5,038 | ||
26Cognitive ScienceWiley · United States | 2.89Q1 | 3.25 0.55 down from 2010 | 218 | 54% | $4,000 | ||
27NeuroImageOAElsevier BV · United States | 2.81Q1 | 6.56 0.42 up from 2010 | 2,909 | 48% | $3,540 | ||
28Journal of Memory and LanguageElsevier BV · United States | 2.79Q1 | 3.61 2.05 down from 2010 | 187 | 36% | $4,670 | ||
29Frontiers in Neural CircuitsOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.70Q1 | 6.67 1.27 up from 2010 | 52 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
30Frontiers in NeuroenergeticsOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.62Q1 | 5.50 0.93 up from 2010 | 36 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
31Journal of NeuroinflammationOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.60Q1 | 5.17 2.03 down from 2010 | 194 | 100% | $4,090 | ||
32Current BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.52Q1 | 5.63 0.22 up from 2010 | 2,385 | 99% | $7,030 | ||
33Brain stimulationOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.48Q1 | 3.59 0.34 down from 2010 | 126 | 81% | $4,430 | ||
34IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation EngineeringOAInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.37Q1 | 4.34 1.12 up from 2010 | 260 | 28% | $2,075 | ||
35NeuroMolecular MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.36Q1 | 5.86 0.06 up from 2010 | 114 | 8% | $4,990 | ||
36Journal of Cognitive NeuroscienceThe MIT Press · United States | 2.33Q1 | 5.52 0.38 up from 2010 | 753 | 53% | — | ||
37Mind & LanguageWiley · United Kingdom | 2.28Q1 | 3.20 0.14 up from 2010 | 92 | 30% | $4,150 | ||
38Cognitive Affective & Behavioral NeuroscienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.23Q1 | 5.09 0.71 up from 2010 | 143 | 95% | $3,190 | ||
39American Journal of Speech-Language PathologyAmerican Speech–Language–Hearing Association · United States | 2.23Q1 | 3.19 0.02 up from 2010 | 105 | 18% | — | ||
40Social NeuroscienceTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.19Q1 | 3.51 0.37 down from 2010 | 161 | 19% | — | ||
41Social CognitionGuilford Press · United States | 2.18Q1 | 2.63 0.25 down from 2010 | 150 | 9% | — | ||
42The NeuroscientistSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.08Q1 | 5.17 0.91 up from 2010 | 154 | 37% | $4,400 | ||
43Annual Review of NeuroscienceAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.08Q1 | 33.63 2.61 down from 2010 | 61 | 44% | — | ||
44Psychiatry Research NeuroimagingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.07Q1 | 4.47 0.02 up from 2010 | 381 | 43% | $3,110 | ||
45Neurobiology of AgingElsevier BV · United States | 2.06Q1 | 4.89no change | 753 | 45% | $3,430 | ||
46Annals of the New York Academy of SciencesWiley · United States | 2.04Q1 | 4.29 0.50 up from 2010 | 3,003 | 34% | $5,080 | ||
47Journal of Neural EngineeringIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 5.86 1.81 up from 2010 | 197 | 72% | $3,325 | ||
48Annual Review of PsychologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.03Q1 | 13.33 3.51 down from 2010 | 80 | 39% | — | ||
49GliaWiley · United States | 2.02Q1 | 5.39 0.15 up from 2010 | 517 | 37% | $5,450 | ||
50NeuropsychologiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 4.54 0.12 down from 2010 | 1,133 | 36% | $3,300 |
Citations made in 2011. Corpus-wide, 75.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
72 additional Neuroscience journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2008–2010, 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: 2011. Publication window: 2008–2010. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 276
- Window papers (baseline)
- 164,012 +24.7% from indicator year 2008
- Median OJR
- 1.136 +11.0% from indicator year 2008
- Rising journals (2025)
- 30Comparison-group list (30)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2008–2010 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.