Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Field ranking · 2012
Neuroscience journal rankings 2012
290 ranked journals · Field in Life Sciences
Neuroscience has 290 ranked journals in 2012. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.16 against 1.00, up 0.02 on 2011. A journal needs OJR 1.73 to reach Q1. The top three are Psychological Review, Current Directions in Psychological Science, and Nature Neuroscience.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2012. 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 2009–2011, the window the 2012 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 2011. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2009–2011, the window the 2012 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2009–2011 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 2003 to 2012. | Compare |
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1Psychological ReviewAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 6.16Q1 | 11.17 2.13 up from 2011 | 155 | 26% | — | ||
2Current Directions in Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.34Q1 | 7.17 0.19 up from 2011 | 216 | 19% | $3,900 | ||
3Nature NeuroscienceNature Portfolio · United States | 5.28Q1 | 13.75 0.85 down from 2011 | 868 | 65% | $12,690 | ||
4NeuronCell Press · United States | 5.27Q1 | 15.53 1.54 up from 2011 | 1,219 | 99% | $10,400 | ||
5Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.80Q1 | 6.68 0.37 up from 2011 | 817 | 28% | $3,900 | ||
6Cognitive PsychologyElsevier BV · United States | 4.75Q1 | 7.14 1.41 up from 2011 | 65 | 36% | $3,570 | ||
7Frontiers in NeuroendocrinologyElsevier BV · United States | 4.52Q1 | 9.00 3.52 down from 2011 | 111 | 58% | $4,800 | ||
8Progress in NeurobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.31Q1 | 11.04 0.13 down from 2011 | 249 | 48% | $5,190 | ||
9Neuroscience & Biobehavioral ReviewsElsevier BV · United States | 4.07Q1 | 10.41 0.79 up from 2011 | 387 | 40% | $4,860 | ||
10Neuropsychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 4.00Q1 | 9.13 1.32 up from 2011 | 97 | 68% | $3,890 | ||
11Molecular AutismOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.63Q1 | 8.45 0.45 up from 2011 | 33 | 100% | $3,990 | ||
12Molecular PsychiatrySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 3.61Q1 | 10.25 0.13 up from 2011 | 440 | 59% | $5,490 | ||
13Brain Research ReviewsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.58Q1 | 7.80 1.92 down from 2011 | 144 | — | — | ||
14Topics in Cognitive ScienceWiley · United States | 3.47Q1 | 4.10 0.38 down from 2011 | 161 | 69% | $3,470 | ||
15CognitionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.41Q1 | 4.88 0.07 up from 2011 | 474 | 38% | $3,910 | ||
16Biological PsychiatryElsevier BV · United States | 3.23Q1 | 7.80 0.33 down from 2011 | 1,279 | 45% | $5,489 | ||
17IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental DevelopmentInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 3.23Q1 | 4.44 0.46 up from 2011 | 98 | 11% | — | ||
18NeuropsychopharmacologySpringer Nature · United States | 3.23Q1 | 7.15 2.05 down from 2011 | 767 | 100% | $5,290 | ||
19Journal of Experimental Psychology GeneralAmerican Psychological Association | 3.18Q1 | 5.29 0.17 down from 2011 | 159 | 30% | — | ||
20Journal of NeuroscienceSociety for Neuroscience · United States | 3.07Q1 | 8.45 0.46 down from 2011 | 5,178 | 100% | — | ||
21Cognitive ScienceWiley · United States | 3.00Q1 | 3.62 0.37 up from 2011 | 237 | 13% | $4,000 | ||
22Social Cognitive and Affective NeuroscienceOAUniversity of Oxford · United Kingdom | 2.96Q1 | 5.15 0.43 down from 2011 | 262 | 99% | $2,379 | ||
23Human Brain MappingOAWiley · United States | 2.91Q1 | 5.74 0.75 down from 2011 | 778 | 96% | $3,520 | ||
24Cerebral CortexOxford University Press · United States | 2.82Q1 | 6.18 0.44 down from 2011 | 947 | 69% | $5,038 | ||
25NeuroImageOAElsevier BV · United States | 2.76Q1 | 6.76 0.19 up from 2011 | 3,234 | 48% | $3,540 | ||
26Brain Structure and FunctionSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.71Q1 | 7.09 0.42 down from 2011 | 171 | 44% | $4,790 | ||
27Social CognitionGuilford Press · United States | 2.55Q1 | 2.16 0.47 down from 2011 | 145 | 9% | — | ||
28Mind & LanguageWiley · United Kingdom | 2.53Q1 | 3.36 0.16 up from 2011 | 84 | 20% | $4,150 | ||
29Current BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.52Q1 | 5.76 0.13 up from 2011 | 2,264 | 100% | $7,030 | ||
30Journal of NeuroinflammationOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.44Q1 | 5.79 0.62 up from 2011 | 328 | 100% | $4,090 | ||
31Behavior Research MethodsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.35Q1 | 2.69 0.78 down from 2011 | 410 | 86% | $3,990 | ||
32Journal of Cognitive NeuroscienceThe MIT Press · United States | 2.30Q1 | 4.91 0.61 down from 2011 | 635 | 55% | — | ||
33Psychiatry Research NeuroimagingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.28Q1 | 4.94 0.47 up from 2011 | 412 | 39% | $3,110 | ||
34ACM Transactions on Accessible ComputingAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 2.22Q1 | 2.73 0.56 up from 2011 | 34 | 0% | — | ||
35The NeuroscientistSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.19Q1 | 5.34 0.17 up from 2011 | 209 | 30% | $4,400 | ||
36Brain Behavior and ImmunityElsevier BV · United States | 2.17Q1 | 6.25 1.45 up from 2011 | 554 | 30% | $5,680 | ||
37Cognition & EmotionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 2.60 0.53 down from 2011 | 314 | 28% | — | ||
38Frontiers in NeuroenergeticsOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.15Q1 | 6.29 0.79 up from 2011 | 45 | 92% | $0 listed | ||
39Neurobiology of AgingElsevier BV · United States | 2.14Q1 | 5.13 0.24 up from 2011 | 779 | 33% | $3,430 | ||
40Journal of Memory and LanguageElsevier BV · United States | 2.14Q1 | 3.43 0.18 down from 2011 | 198 | 26% | $4,670 | ||
41Cognitive Affective & Behavioral NeuroscienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.14Q1 | 4.37 0.72 down from 2011 | 158 | 94% | $3,190 | ||
42Annual Review of NeuroscienceAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.12Q1 | 28.02 5.61 down from 2011 | 62 | 43% | — | ||
43International Journal of Neural SystemsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 2.11Q1 | 5.77 0.56 up from 2011 | 118 | 13% | — | ||
44GliaWiley · United States | 2.10Q1 | 5.79 0.40 up from 2011 | 464 | 41% | $5,450 | ||
45Brain stimulationOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.09Q1 | 4.30 0.71 up from 2011 | 165 | 93% | $4,430 | ||
46American Journal of Speech-Language PathologyAmerican Speech–Language–Hearing Association · United States | 2.08Q1 | 3.50 0.31 up from 2011 | 102 | 35% | — | ||
47Bilingualism Language and CognitionCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.07Q1 | 2.34 0.45 up from 2011 | 178 | 47% | $3,550 | ||
48Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and CognitionAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.05Q1 | 3.88 0.06 up from 2011 | 437 | 28% | — | ||
49IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation EngineeringOAInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.05Q1 | 4.60 0.26 up from 2011 | 249 | 23% | $2,075 | ||
50Restorative Neurology and NeuroscienceIOS Press · Netherlands | 2.03Q1 | 4.10 0.13 up from 2011 | 148 | 40% | $4,150 |
Citations made in 2012. Corpus-wide, 75.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
71 additional Neuroscience journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2009–2011, 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: 2012. Publication window: 2009–2011. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 290
- Window papers (baseline)
- 167,583 +17.1% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 1.16 +5.8% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 30Comparison-group list (30)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2009–2011 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 |
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| 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.