Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Cognitive Neuroscience journal rankings 2015
240 ranked journals · Subfield in Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience has 240 ranked journals in 2015. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2014 to 1.06, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.57. The top three are Nature Neuroscience, Current Directions in Psychological Science, and Progress in Neurobiology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2015. 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 2012–2014, the window the 2015 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)
240 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 2014. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2012–2014, the window the 2015 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2012–2014 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 2006 to 2015. | Compare |
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1Nature NeuroscienceNature Portfolio · United States | 5.97Q1 | 16.03 0.76 down from 2014 | 853 | 72% | $12,690 | ||
2Current Directions in Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.87Q1 | 8.94 0.25 down from 2014 | 217 | 42% | $3,900 | ||
3Progress in NeurobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.63Q1 | 16.77 4.01 up from 2014 | 179 | 48% | $5,190 | ||
4Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.01Q1 | 8.22 0.88 up from 2014 | 822 | 46% | $3,900 | ||
5NeuronCell Press · United States | 5.00Q1 | 13.26 1.32 down from 2014 | 1,502 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
6Psychological ReviewAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.84Q1 | 9.53 0.48 up from 2014 | 106 | 49% | — | ||
7Molecular PsychiatrySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 4.08Q1 | 10.94 0.52 up from 2014 | 534 | 76% | $5,490 | ||
8Neuroscience & Biobehavioral ReviewsElsevier BV · United States | 3.51Q1 | 10.57 0.42 down from 2014 | 558 | 39% | $4,860 | ||
9Neuropsychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.35Q1 | 9.00 1.78 up from 2014 | 79 | 61% | $3,890 | ||
10Cognitive PsychologyElsevier BV · United States | 3.29Q1 | 6.06 1.41 down from 2014 | 76 | 36% | $3,570 | ||
11Annual Review of PsychologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 3.27Q1 | 19.55 1.45 up from 2014 | 73 | 71% | — | ||
12Biological PsychiatryElsevier BV · United States | 3.11Q1 | 7.01 0.04 up from 2014 | 1,293 | 53% | $5,489 | ||
13Trends in Neuroscience and EducationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.08Q1 | 4.41 0.55 down from 2014 | 41 | 13% | $3,880 | ||
14Mind & LanguageWiley · United Kingdom | 3.06Q1 | 3.43 0.36 up from 2014 | 90 | 41% | $4,150 | ||
15Journal of Experimental Psychology GeneralAmerican Psychological Association | 3.03Q1 | 5.07 0.21 down from 2014 | 315 | 42% | — | ||
16Journal of Memory and LanguageElsevier BV · United States | 3.02Q1 | 6.55 1.50 up from 2014 | 235 | 46% | $4,670 | ||
17NeuroImageOAElsevier BV · United States | 2.74Q1 | 7.20 0.22 up from 2014 | 2,798 | 61% | $3,540 | ||
18Social Cognitive and Affective NeuroscienceOAUniversity of Oxford · United Kingdom | 2.70Q1 | 5.13 0.12 down from 2014 | 507 | 100% | $2,379 | ||
19Current BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.68Q1 | 6.05 0.10 down from 2014 | 2,348 | 100% | $7,030 | ||
20Translational PsychiatryOASpringer Nature · United States | 2.65Q1 | 7.54 0.59 down from 2014 | 404 | 100% | $5,290 | ||
21Topics in Cognitive ScienceWiley · United States | 2.61Q1 | 2.92 0.65 down from 2014 | 174 | 64% | $3,470 | ||
22Journal of NeuroscienceSociety for Neuroscience · United States | 2.60Q1 | 7.08 0.65 down from 2014 | 5,147 | 99% | — | ||
23Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain SciencesSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.58Q1 | 1.42no 2014 value | 33 | 15% | $3,400 | — | |
24CognitionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.57Q1 | 4.18 0.29 down from 2014 | 566 | 50% | $3,910 | ||
25Cerebral CortexOxford University Press · United States | 2.52Q1 | 5.48 0.38 down from 2014 | 1,100 | 66% | $5,038 | ||
26Human Brain MappingOAWiley · United States | 2.50Q1 | 5.58 0.31 up from 2014 | 772 | 97% | $3,520 | ||
27Molecular AutismOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.49Q1 | 7.01 0.56 down from 2014 | 125 | 100% | $3,990 | ||
28Annals of the New York Academy of SciencesWiley · United States | 2.48Q1 | 5.71 0.33 up from 2014 | 1,001 | 42% | $5,080 | ||
29NeuroImage ClinicalOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.44Q1 | 5.73 1.37 up from 2014 | 412 | 100% | $3,490 | ||
30The NeuroscientistSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.42Q1 | 5.47 0.37 down from 2014 | 184 | 35% | $4,400 | ||
31Developmental Cognitive NeuroscienceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.28Q1 | 4.77 0.29 up from 2014 | 152 | 100% | $3,650 | ||
32Neurobiology of AgingElsevier BV · United States | 2.24Q1 | 5.55 0.10 up from 2014 | 1,099 | 46% | $3,430 | ||
33Brain Imaging and BehaviorSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.13Q1 | 3.68 1.48 down from 2014 | 193 | 46% | $3,790 | ||
34Nature reviews. NeuroscienceNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 9.85 0.11 down from 2014 | 719 | 19% | — | ||
35Annual Review of NeuroscienceAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.05Q1 | 18.04 7.72 down from 2014 | 76 | 77% | — | ||
36Trends in Cognitive SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 12.52 0.96 down from 2014 | 357 | 48% | $7,030 | ||
37Behavior Research MethodsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.02Q1 | 3.61 0.63 up from 2014 | 352 | 99% | $3,990 | ||
38Brain ConnectivityMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States | 2.00Q1 | 3.72 2.39 down from 2014 | 183 | 66% | — | ||
39Cognitive ScienceWiley · United States | 1.96Q1 | 2.22 0.73 down from 2014 | 331 | 30% | $4,000 | ||
40IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation EngineeringOAInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.93Q1 | 3.95 0.53 down from 2014 | 406 | 26% | $2,075 | ||
41Frontiers in NeuroscienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.90Q1 | 4.79 0.26 down from 2014 | 970 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
42International Journal of Neural SystemsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.88Q1 | 6.14 0.20 down from 2014 | 138 | 21% | — | ||
43NeuropsychobiologyKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.88Q1 | 5.31 1.52 up from 2014 | 180 | 21% | — | ||
44Brain and LanguageElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.84Q1 | 3.79 0.05 up from 2014 | 379 | 48% | $3,170 | ||
45Journal of Neural EngineeringIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 5.23 0.64 down from 2014 | 400 | 79% | $3,325 | ||
46Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological PsychiatryElsevier BV · United States | 1.80Q1 | 4.76 0.12 down from 2014 | 624 | 30% | $4,380 | ||
47Biological PsychologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.78Q1 | 3.85 0.20 down from 2014 | 463 | 35% | $3,440 | ||
48Psychonomic Bulletin & ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.78Q1 | 3.51 0.01 down from 2014 | 578 | 96% | $3,790 | ||
49CortexElsevier BV · Italy | 1.75Q1 | 3.64 0.62 down from 2014 | 634 | 44% | $3,830 | ||
50Bilingualism Language and CognitionCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.70Q1 | 2.18 0.06 down from 2014 | 237 | 52% | $3,550 |
Subfields of Neuroscience, with Cognitive Neuroscience highlighted.
- Cognitive Neuroscience240
- Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience30
- Neurology20
- Sensory Systems7
- Behavioral Neuroscience3
- Endocrine and Autonomic Systems3
- Biological Psychiatry2
- Developmental Neuroscience1
Journals
Citations made in 2015. Corpus-wide, 78.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
69 additional Cognitive Neuroscience journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2012–2014, 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: 2015. Publication window: 2012–2014. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 240
- Window papers (baseline)
- 76,687 +9.8% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 1.061 -9.2% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 26
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2012–2014 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.