Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Field ranking · 2017
Neuroscience journal rankings 2017
319 ranked journals · Field in Life Sciences
Neuroscience has 319 ranked journals in 2017. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.08 against 1.00, down 0.01 on 2016. A journal needs OJR 1.57 to reach Q1. The top three are Nature Neuroscience, Current Directions in Psychological Science, and Progress in Neurobiology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2017. 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 2014–2016, the window the 2017 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.
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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 2016. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2014–2016 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 2008 to 2017. | Compare |
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1Nature NeuroscienceNature Portfolio · United States | 6.53Q1 | 18.73 2.09 up from 2016 | 822 | 66% | $12,690 | ||
2Current Directions in Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 6.12Q1 | 7.37 1.22 down from 2016 | 218 | 47% | $3,900 | ||
3Progress in NeurobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.93Q1 | 13.77 0.33 up from 2016 | 161 | 39% | $5,190 | ||
4Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.79Q1 | 7.72 0.67 up from 2016 | 601 | 45% | $3,900 | ||
5NeuronCell Press · United States | 4.73Q1 | 12.66 0.57 down from 2016 | 1,591 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
6Frontiers in NeuroendocrinologyElsevier BV · United States | 4.31Q1 | 7.26 4.21 down from 2016 | 94 | 37% | $4,800 | ||
7Psychological ReviewAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.06Q1 | 7.20 0.55 down from 2016 | 108 | 59% | — | ||
8Journal of Pineal ResearchWiley · Denmark | 3.76Q1 | 12.80 1.97 up from 2016 | 242 | 21% | $5,000 | ||
9Molecular PsychiatrySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 3.72Q1 | 10.07 0.26 down from 2016 | 624 | 77% | $5,490 | ||
10Journal of Experimental Psychology GeneralAmerican Psychological Association | 3.48Q1 | 5.58 0.15 up from 2016 | 299 | 33% | — | ||
11Annual Review of PsychologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 3.28Q1 | 19.65 2.27 down from 2016 | 89 | 71% | — | ||
12Neuroscience & Biobehavioral ReviewsElsevier BV · United States | 2.92Q1 | 8.95 0.86 down from 2016 | 811 | 46% | $4,860 | ||
13Neurobiology of StressOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.84Q1 | 5.83 1.56 down from 2016 | 70 | 100% | $4,050 | ||
14Biological PsychiatryElsevier BV · United States | 2.84Q1 | 6.45 0.31 down from 2016 | 1,048 | 19% | $5,489 | ||
15Cognitive PsychologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.83Q1 | 4.41 0.16 down from 2016 | 102 | 57% | $3,570 | ||
16Current BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.71Q1 | 6.08 0.05 down from 2016 | 2,502 | 99% | $7,030 | ||
17Molecular AutismOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.68Q1 | 7.93 0.85 up from 2016 | 169 | 100% | $3,990 | ||
18Developmental Cognitive NeuroscienceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.57Q1 | 5.69 0.07 down from 2016 | 215 | 100% | $3,650 | ||
19Nature reviews. NeuroscienceNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.56Q1 | 12.69 1.57 up from 2016 | 594 | 18% | — | ||
20Annals of the New York Academy of SciencesWiley · United States | 2.56Q1 | 4.97 0.84 down from 2016 | 840 | 35% | $5,080 | ||
21Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain SciencesSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.55Q1 | 2.52 0.13 down from 2016 | 97 | 27% | $3,400 | ||
22CognitionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.55Q1 | 4.21 0.04 up from 2016 | 654 | 53% | $3,910 | ||
23Journal of NeuroinflammationOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.51Q1 | 6.36 0.37 up from 2016 | 757 | 100% | $4,090 | ||
24Journal of NeuroscienceSociety for Neuroscience · United States | 2.46Q1 | 6.64 0.35 down from 2016 | 4,187 | 98% | — | ||
25Behavior Research MethodsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.43Q1 | 4.15 0.96 up from 2016 | 391 | 98% | $3,990 | ||
26NeuroImageOAElsevier BV · United States | 2.39Q1 | 6.04 0.18 down from 2016 | 2,612 | 67% | $3,540 | ||
27NeuropsychopharmacologySpringer Nature · United States | 2.38Q1 | 6.40 0.01 down from 2016 | 967 | 99% | $5,290 | ||
28Translational PsychiatryOASpringer Nature · United States | 2.35Q1 | 6.04 0.36 down from 2016 | 626 | 100% | $5,290 | ||
29Neuropsychology ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.33Q1 | 6.17 1.44 down from 2016 | 81 | 43% | $3,890 | ||
30Human Brain MappingOAWiley · United States | 2.32Q1 | 5.30 0.06 down from 2016 | 1,003 | 98% | $3,520 | ||
31Cerebral CortexOxford University Press · United States | 2.29Q1 | 5.36 0.14 down from 2016 | 1,105 | 89% | $5,038 | ||
32NeuroImage ClinicalOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.26Q1 | 4.63 0.83 down from 2016 | 700 | 100% | $3,490 | ||
33GliaWiley · United States | 2.25Q1 | 6.37 0.39 up from 2016 | 465 | 51% | $5,450 | ||
34The NeuroscientistSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.22Q1 | 5.08 0.54 down from 2016 | 182 | 21% | $4,400 | ||
35Social Cognitive and Affective NeuroscienceOAUniversity of Oxford · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 4.32 0.29 up from 2016 | 520 | 100% | $2,379 | ||
36Brain Behavior and ImmunityElsevier BV · United States | 2.12Q1 | 5.90 0.46 down from 2016 | 782 | 36% | $5,680 | ||
37Topics in Cognitive ScienceWiley · United States | 2.11Q1 | 3.21 0.49 up from 2016 | 160 | 76% | $3,470 | ||
38Trends in Neuroscience and EducationElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.05Q1 | 2.67 1.33 down from 2016 | 53 | 18% | $3,880 | ||
39Neurobiology of AgingElsevier BV · United States | 2.00Q1 | 4.75 0.74 down from 2016 | 1,057 | 55% | $3,430 | ||
40Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive ScienceWiley · United States | 2.00Q1 | 3.33 0.37 down from 2016 | 132 | 42% | $4,150 | ||
41Trends in Cognitive SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 11.00 0.97 up from 2016 | 392 | 64% | $7,030 | ||
42British Journal of PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.00Q1 | 3.18 0.46 up from 2016 | 114 | 43% | $3,800 | ||
43Frontiers in NeuroscienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.99Q1 | 5.18 0.47 up from 2016 | 1,584 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
44Tissue BarriersTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 5.36 0.76 up from 2016 | 84 | 100% | — | ||
45IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation EngineeringOAInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.93Q1 | 3.31 0.48 down from 2016 | 545 | 23% | $2,075 | ||
46Annual Review of NeuroscienceAnnual Reviews · United States | 1.91Q1 | 19.23 0.88 down from 2016 | 65 | 69% | — | ||
47Social CognitionGuilford Press · United States | 1.90Q1 | 2.08 0.59 down from 2016 | 106 | 13% | — | ||
48IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental DevelopmentInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.88Q1 | 3.58 0.87 up from 2016 | 59 | — | — | ||
49Fluids and Barriers of the CNSOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 4.11 0.04 up from 2016 | 83 | 100% | $3,390 | ||
50ACM Transactions on Accessible ComputingAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.86Q1 | 2.74 0.59 up from 2016 | 53 | 26% | — |
Citations made in 2017. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
107 additional Neuroscience journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2014–2016, 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: 2017. Publication window: 2014–2016. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 319
- Window papers (baseline)
- 184,543 +4.9% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 1.076 -5.7% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 30Comparison-group list (30)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2014–2016 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.