Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Field ranking · 2016
Neuroscience journal rankings 2016
314 ranked journals · Field in Life Sciences
Neuroscience has 314 ranked journals in 2016. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.08 against 1.00, unchanged on 2015. A journal needs OJR 1.56 to reach Q1. The top three are Nature Neuroscience, Progress in Neurobiology, and Current Directions in Psychological Science.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. 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 2013–2015, the window the 2016 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 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 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 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1Nature NeuroscienceNature Portfolio · United States | 6.39Q1 | 16.65 0.62 up from 2015 | 875 | 64% | $12,690 | ||
2Progress in NeurobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.26Q1 | 13.43 3.33 down from 2015 | 155 | 41% | $5,190 | ||
3Current Directions in Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.97Q1 | 8.59 0.35 down from 2015 | 220 | 32% | $3,900 | ||
4Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.00Q1 | 7.05 1.18 down from 2015 | 813 | 44% | $3,900 | ||
5NeuronCell Press · United States | 4.88Q1 | 13.23 0.03 down from 2015 | 1,543 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
6Frontiers in NeuroendocrinologyElsevier BV · United States | 4.23Q1 | 11.46 2.23 up from 2015 | 101 | 44% | $4,800 | ||
7Psychological ReviewAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.99Q1 | 7.75 1.78 down from 2015 | 111 | 50% | — | ||
8Molecular PsychiatrySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 3.95Q1 | 10.33 0.61 down from 2015 | 558 | 75% | $5,490 | ||
9Health Information Science and SystemsSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 3.82Q1 | 10.70 5.88 up from 2015 | 35 | 100% | $2,590 | ||
10Annual Review of PsychologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 3.35Q1 | 21.93 2.37 up from 2015 | 89 | 54% | — | ||
11Cognitive PsychologyElsevier BV · United States | 3.34Q1 | 4.57 1.49 down from 2015 | 82 | 56% | $3,570 | ||
12Journal of Experimental Psychology GeneralAmerican Psychological Association | 3.23Q1 | 5.43 0.35 up from 2015 | 302 | 35% | — | ||
13Journal of Memory and LanguageElsevier BV · United States | 3.20Q1 | 3.15 3.40 down from 2015 | 226 | 64% | $4,670 | ||
14Trends in Neuroscience and EducationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.19Q1 | 4.00 0.41 down from 2015 | 48 | 36% | $3,880 | ||
15Neuroscience & Biobehavioral ReviewsElsevier BV · United States | 3.18Q1 | 9.82 0.75 down from 2015 | 642 | 47% | $4,860 | ||
16Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain SciencesSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.09Q1 | 2.65 1.23 up from 2015 | 60 | 8% | $3,400 | ||
17Biological PsychiatryElsevier BV · United States | 3.07Q1 | 6.75 0.25 down from 2015 | 1,222 | 51% | $5,489 | ||
18Journal of Pineal ResearchWiley · Denmark | 2.94Q1 | 10.83 1.53 up from 2015 | 243 | 23% | $5,000 | ||
19Neuropsychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.92Q1 | 7.62 1.38 down from 2015 | 78 | 54% | $3,890 | ||
20NeuroImageOAElsevier BV · United States | 2.75Q1 | 6.21 0.98 down from 2015 | 2,762 | 64% | $3,540 | ||
21Developmental Cognitive NeuroscienceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.72Q1 | 5.76 0.99 up from 2015 | 197 | 100% | $3,650 | ||
22Neurobiology of StressOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.69Q1 | 7.39 2.06 up from 2015 | 36 | 100% | $4,050 | ||
23Current BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.65Q1 | 6.13 0.08 up from 2015 | 2,427 | 100% | $7,030 | ||
24Molecular AutismOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.62Q1 | 7.07 0.06 up from 2015 | 172 | 100% | $3,990 | ||
25CognitionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.61Q1 | 4.17 0.01 down from 2015 | 607 | 56% | $3,910 | ||
26Journal of NeuroscienceSociety for Neuroscience · United States | 2.57Q1 | 6.99 0.09 down from 2015 | 4,840 | 99% | — | ||
27Annals of the New York Academy of SciencesWiley · United States | 2.55Q1 | 5.81 0.10 up from 2015 | 863 | 49% | $5,080 | ||
28NeuropsychopharmacologySpringer Nature · United States | 2.47Q1 | 6.41 0.01 up from 2015 | 1,029 | 99% | $5,290 | ||
29NeuroImage ClinicalOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.46Q1 | 5.46 0.27 down from 2015 | 598 | 100% | $3,490 | ||
30Translational PsychiatryOASpringer Nature · United States | 2.46Q1 | 6.40 1.14 down from 2015 | 472 | 100% | $5,290 | ||
31Behavior Research MethodsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.45Q1 | 3.19 0.42 down from 2015 | 382 | 94% | $3,990 | ||
32Nature reviews. NeuroscienceNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.44Q1 | 11.12 1.27 up from 2015 | 657 | 22% | — | ||
33Journal of NeuroinflammationOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.40Q1 | 5.99 0.15 down from 2015 | 613 | 100% | $4,090 | ||
34Human Brain MappingOAWiley · United States | 2.35Q1 | 5.36 0.22 down from 2015 | 851 | 98% | $3,520 | ||
35Cerebral CortexOxford University Press · United States | 2.33Q1 | 5.50 0.02 up from 2015 | 1,018 | 72% | $5,038 | ||
36The NeuroscientistSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.26Q1 | 5.61 0.14 up from 2015 | 189 | 24% | $4,400 | ||
37Neurobiology of AgingElsevier BV · United States | 2.24Q1 | 5.49 0.06 down from 2015 | 1,124 | 41% | $3,430 | ||
38International Journal of Neural SystemsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 2.19Q1 | 6.39 0.25 up from 2015 | 138 | 27% | — | ||
39Brain Behavior and ImmunityElsevier BV · United States | 2.19Q1 | 6.36 0.75 up from 2015 | 691 | 36% | $5,680 | ||
40GliaWiley · United States | 2.18Q1 | 5.98 0.21 down from 2015 | 505 | 42% | $5,450 | ||
41Topics in Cognitive ScienceWiley · United States | 2.14Q1 | 2.73 0.20 down from 2015 | 163 | 74% | $3,470 | ||
42Social Cognitive and Affective NeuroscienceOAUniversity of Oxford · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 4.03 1.10 down from 2015 | 510 | 100% | $2,379 | ||
43British Journal of PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.06Q1 | 2.72 0.30 down from 2015 | 107 | 31% | $3,800 | ||
44Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive ScienceWiley · United States | 2.04Q1 | 3.69 1.19 up from 2015 | 134 | 48% | $4,150 | ||
45Frontiers in NeuroscienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 2.00Q1 | 4.71 0.08 down from 2015 | 1,264 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
46PsychoneuroendocrinologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 5.61 0.07 down from 2015 | 855 | 32% | $3,830 | ||
47Mind & LanguageWiley · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 1.61 1.82 down from 2015 | 89 | 50% | $4,150 | ||
48Trends in Cognitive SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.97Q1 | 10.03 2.50 down from 2015 | 390 | 46% | $7,030 | ||
49Fluids and Barriers of the CNSOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.97Q1 | 4.06 2.42 down from 2015 | 100 | 100% | $3,390 | ||
50Frontiers in Cellular NeuroscienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.92Q1 | 5.13 0.67 down from 2015 | 1,260 | 100% | $3,801 |
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
100 additional Neuroscience journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2013–2015, 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: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 314
- Window papers (baseline)
- 185,572 +7.1% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 1.083 -5.9% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 30Comparison-group list (30)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 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.