Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
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Subfield ranking · 2013
Cognitive Neuroscience journal rankings 2013
226 ranked journals · Subfield in Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience has 226 ranked journals in 2013. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.15 against 1.00, down 0.02 on 2012. A journal needs OJR 1.73 to reach Q1. The top three are Psychological Review, Neuron, and Nature Neuroscience.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2013. 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 2010–2012, the window the 2013 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)
226 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 2012. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2010–2012, the window the 2013 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2010–2012 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 2004 to 2013. | Compare |
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1Psychological ReviewAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 6.22Q1 | 9.54 1.64 down from 2012 | 151 | 19% | — | ||
2NeuronCell Press · United States | 5.56Q1 | 15.94 0.40 up from 2012 | 1,283 | 99% | $10,400 | ||
3Nature NeuroscienceNature Portfolio · United States | 5.47Q1 | 15.05 1.30 up from 2012 | 836 | 69% | $12,690 | ||
4Current Directions in Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.25Q1 | 8.51 1.34 up from 2012 | 217 | 30% | $3,900 | ||
5Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.73Q1 | 7.24 0.56 up from 2012 | 772 | 40% | $3,900 | ||
6Progress in NeurobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.52Q1 | 11.13 0.09 up from 2012 | 243 | 37% | $5,190 | ||
7Neuropsychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.96Q1 | 7.13 1.99 down from 2012 | 87 | 32% | $3,890 | ||
8Neuroscience & Biobehavioral ReviewsElsevier BV · United States | 3.89Q1 | 10.67 0.26 up from 2012 | 401 | 38% | $4,860 | ||
9Cognitive PsychologyElsevier BV · United States | 3.72Q1 | 5.14 2.00 down from 2012 | 70 | 19% | $3,570 | ||
10Molecular PsychiatrySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 3.56Q1 | 10.15 0.11 down from 2012 | 484 | 67% | $5,490 | ||
11Molecular AutismOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.30Q1 | 8.54 0.09 up from 2012 | 51 | 100% | $3,990 | ||
12Journal of Experimental Psychology GeneralAmerican Psychological Association | 3.12Q1 | 5.47 0.17 up from 2012 | 235 | 45% | — | ||
13Biological PsychiatryElsevier BV · United States | 3.11Q1 | 6.56 1.23 down from 2012 | 1,293 | 46% | $5,489 | ||
14NeuroImageOAElsevier BV · United States | 3.08Q1 | 7.72 0.97 up from 2012 | 3,146 | 55% | $3,540 | ||
15Brain ConnectivityMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 2.91Q1 | 7.56 3.52 up from 2012 | 87 | 78% | — | ||
16Cerebral CortexOxford University Press · United States | 2.91Q1 | 6.78 0.59 up from 2012 | 1,049 | 69% | $5,038 | ||
17CognitionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.90Q1 | 4.48 0.40 down from 2012 | 476 | 38% | $3,910 | ||
18Journal of NeuroscienceSociety for Neuroscience · United States | 2.90Q1 | 8.28 0.18 down from 2012 | 5,304 | 99% | — | ||
19Social Cognitive and Affective NeuroscienceOAUniversity of Oxford · United Kingdom | 2.82Q1 | 5.63 0.48 up from 2012 | 359 | 100% | $2,379 | ||
20Cognitive ScienceWiley · United States | 2.76Q1 | 3.38 0.24 down from 2012 | 246 | 14% | $4,000 | ||
21Human Brain MappingOAWiley · United States | 2.70Q1 | 5.88 0.14 up from 2012 | 822 | 93% | $3,520 | ||
22Frontiers in Systems NeuroscienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.67Q1 | 5.16 2.15 down from 2012 | 243 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
23Topics in Cognitive ScienceWiley · United States | 2.63Q1 | 2.66 1.44 down from 2012 | 151 | 58% | $3,470 | ||
24The NeuroscientistSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.61Q1 | 6.98 1.64 up from 2012 | 201 | 28% | $4,400 | ||
25Current BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.59Q1 | 6.15 0.39 up from 2012 | 2,228 | 100% | $7,030 | ||
26Brain Structure and FunctionSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.55Q1 | 3.76 3.33 down from 2012 | 253 | 44% | $4,790 | ||
27Annals of the New York Academy of SciencesWiley · United States | 2.53Q1 | 5.82 0.06 down from 2012 | 1,650 | 34% | $5,080 | ||
28Translational PsychiatryOASpringer Nature · United States | 2.51Q1 | 6.88 3.35 up from 2012 | 197 | 100% | $5,290 | ||
29IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation EngineeringOAInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.42Q1 | 4.51 0.09 down from 2012 | 300 | 38% | $2,075 | ||
30Annual Review of PsychologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.38Q1 | 19.73 2.30 up from 2012 | 68 | 39% | — | ||
31Neurobiology of AgingElsevier BV · United States | 2.35Q1 | 5.69 0.56 up from 2012 | 854 | 41% | $3,430 | ||
32Developmental Cognitive NeuroscienceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.35Q1 | 5.05 1.23 up from 2012 | 134 | 100% | $3,650 | ||
33Mind & LanguageWiley · United Kingdom | 2.31Q1 | 2.88 0.48 down from 2012 | 80 | 18% | $4,150 | ||
34IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental DevelopmentInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 2.17Q1 | 2.04 2.40 down from 2012 | 87 | 54% | — | ||
35Nature reviews. NeuroscienceNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 10.68 1.94 down from 2012 | 619 | 15% | — | ||
36Journal of Cognitive NeuroscienceThe MIT Press · United States | 2.05Q1 | 5.07 0.17 up from 2012 | 571 | 50% | — | ||
37International Journal of Neural SystemsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 2.05Q1 | 6.28 0.51 up from 2012 | 128 | 17% | — | ||
38Ear and HearingLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.00Q1 | 5.64 0.24 up from 2012 | 284 | 37% | — | ||
39Autism ResearchWiley · United States | 2.00Q1 | 4.82 0.48 up from 2012 | 169 | 54% | $4,740 | ||
40Brain Imaging and BehaviorSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.98Q1 | 4.69 1.66 up from 2012 | 127 | 59% | $3,790 | ||
41Psychiatry Research NeuroimagingElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.98Q1 | 4.03 0.91 down from 2012 | 453 | 42% | $3,110 | ||
42Annual Review of NeuroscienceAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.97Q1 | 30.16 2.13 up from 2012 | 71 | 44% | — | ||
43Cognitive Affective & Behavioral NeuroscienceSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.96Q1 | 3.79 0.58 down from 2012 | 179 | 66% | $3,190 | ||
44Journal of Memory and LanguageElsevier BV · United States | 1.87Q1 | 3.12 0.31 down from 2012 | 228 | 41% | $4,670 | ||
45Journal of Neural EngineeringIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 5.67 0.81 up from 2012 | 372 | 65% | $3,325 | ||
46NeuropsychologiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 4.34 0.01 down from 2012 | 1,197 | 36% | $3,300 | ||
47Behavior Research MethodsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.84Q1 | 3.13 0.44 up from 2012 | 377 | 66% | $3,990 | ||
48Biological PsychologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.82Q1 | 4.08 0.39 up from 2012 | 504 | 31% | $3,440 | ||
49Journal of Applied Research in Memory and CognitionElsevier BV · United States | 1.81Q1 | 2.63 0.30 up from 2012 | 60 | 8% | $3,000 | ||
50Trends in Cognitive SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.81Q1 | 14.69 0.15 down from 2012 | 310 | 39% | $7,030 |
Subfields of Neuroscience, with Cognitive Neuroscience highlighted.
- Cognitive Neuroscience226
- Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience32
- Neurology18
- Sensory Systems5
- Endocrine and Autonomic Systems4
- Behavioral Neuroscience3
- Biological Psychiatry3
- Developmental Neuroscience1
Journals
Citations made in 2013. Corpus-wide, 76.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
65 additional Cognitive Neuroscience journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2010–2012, 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: 2013. Publication window: 2010–2012. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 226
- Window papers (baseline)
- 74,025 +32.2% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 1.15 +4.7% from indicator year 2010
- Rising journals (2025)
- 26
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2010–2012 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 | 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.