Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Cognitive Neuroscience journal rankings 2018
255 ranked journals · Subfield in Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience has 255 ranked journals in 2018. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.02 against 1.00, down 0.04 on 2017. A journal needs OJR 1.59 to reach Q1. The top three are Nature Neuroscience, Nature Human Behaviour, and Psychological Science.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. 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 2015–2017, the window the 2018 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)
255 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 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 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 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
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1Nature NeuroscienceNature Portfolio · United States | 7.18Q1 | 18.87 0.13 up from 2017 | 769 | 71% | $12,690 | ||
2Nature Human BehaviourNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.66Q1 | 7.63 0.15 down from 2017 | 246 | 36% | $12,690 | ||
3Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.72Q1 | 6.16 1.56 down from 2017 | 586 | 41% | $3,900 | ||
4Current Directions in Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.70Q1 | 6.76 0.62 down from 2017 | 238 | 50% | $3,900 | ||
5NeuronCell Press · United States | 4.63Q1 | 12.29 0.37 down from 2017 | 1,574 | 99% | $10,400 | ||
6Progress in NeurobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.59Q1 | 10.54 3.23 down from 2017 | 175 | 43% | $5,190 | ||
7Psychological ReviewAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.54Q1 | 8.21 1.01 up from 2017 | 118 | 47% | — | ||
8Molecular PsychiatrySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 3.66Q1 | 10.73 0.66 up from 2017 | 713 | 78% | $5,490 | ||
9Journal of Experimental Psychology GeneralAmerican Psychological Association | 3.01Q1 | 4.67 0.91 down from 2017 | 342 | 35% | — | ||
10Behavior Research MethodsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.93Q1 | 4.54 0.39 up from 2017 | 429 | 98% | $3,990 | ||
11Developmental Cognitive NeuroscienceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.92Q1 | 5.52 0.17 down from 2017 | 264 | 100% | $3,650 | ||
12Journal of Memory and LanguageElsevier BV · United States | 2.84Q1 | 5.90 2.48 up from 2017 | 244 | 41% | $4,670 | ||
13Annual Review of PsychologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.83Q1 | 19.56 0.09 down from 2017 | 81 | 50% | — | ||
14Cognitive PsychologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.82Q1 | 4.91 0.49 up from 2017 | 106 | 33% | $3,570 | ||
15Biological PsychiatryElsevier BV · United States | 2.81Q1 | 5.75 0.70 down from 2017 | 1,032 | 13% | $5,489 | ||
16Nature reviews. NeuroscienceNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.77Q1 | 12.38 0.31 down from 2017 | 545 | 29% | — | ||
17Molecular AutismOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.74Q1 | 7.71 0.22 down from 2017 | 177 | 100% | $3,990 | ||
18Neuroscience & Biobehavioral ReviewsElsevier BV · United States | 2.71Q1 | 9.83 0.88 up from 2017 | 901 | 57% | $4,860 | ||
19CognitionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.67Q1 | 4.85 0.64 up from 2017 | 682 | 57% | $3,910 | ||
20Current BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.61Q1 | 6.08no change | 2,556 | 97% | $7,030 | ||
21Translational PsychiatryOASpringer Nature · United States | 2.45Q1 | 6.90 0.86 up from 2017 | 783 | 100% | $5,290 | ||
22Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain SciencesSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.43Q1 | 2.33 0.18 down from 2017 | 93 | 11% | $3,400 | ||
23NeuroImageOAElsevier BV · United States | 2.38Q1 | 6.35 0.32 up from 2017 | 2,687 | 66% | $3,540 | ||
24Psychonomic Bulletin & ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.36Q1 | 5.02 1.35 up from 2017 | 614 | 99% | $3,790 | ||
25Social Cognitive and Affective NeuroscienceOAUniversity of Oxford · United Kingdom | 2.33Q1 | 4.96 0.65 up from 2017 | 497 | 100% | $2,379 | ||
26Journal of NeuroscienceSociety for Neuroscience · United States | 2.33Q1 | 6.29 0.35 down from 2017 | 3,707 | 100% | — | ||
27Human Brain MappingOAWiley · United States | 2.23Q1 | 5.26 0.04 down from 2017 | 1,117 | 97% | $3,520 | ||
28Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive ScienceWiley · United States | 2.22Q1 | 4.12 0.79 up from 2017 | 101 | 18% | $4,150 | ||
29Annals of the New York Academy of SciencesWiley · United States | 2.22Q1 | 4.80 0.17 down from 2017 | 822 | 49% | $5,080 | ||
30British Journal of PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.10Q1 | 3.59 0.42 up from 2017 | 119 | 36% | $3,800 | ||
31NeuroImage ClinicalOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.04Q1 | 4.53 0.10 down from 2017 | 832 | 100% | $3,490 | ||
32Trends in Cognitive SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 11.93 0.94 up from 2017 | 390 | 60% | $7,030 | ||
33Annual Review of NeuroscienceAnnual Reviews · United States | 2.03Q1 | 15.83 3.40 down from 2017 | 67 | 48% | — | ||
34Cerebral CortexOxford University Press · United States | 2.03Q1 | 5.12 0.23 down from 2017 | 1,119 | 74% | $5,038 | ||
35Bilingualism Language and CognitionCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 2.79 0.77 up from 2017 | 288 | 60% | $3,550 | ||
36Network NeuroscienceOAThe MIT Press · United States | 2.02Q1 | 4.86no 2017 value | 35 | 100% | $1,750 | — | |
37Topics in Cognitive ScienceWiley · United States | 2.00Q1 | 2.75 0.47 down from 2017 | 169 | 81% | $3,470 | ||
38IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental DevelopmentInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.97Q1 | —no 2017 value | 31 | — | — | ||
39NeuroinformaticsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.97Q1 | 5.88 1.88 up from 2017 | 94 | 43% | $4,890 | ||
40The NeuroscientistSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.93Q1 | 4.97 0.11 down from 2017 | 158 | 45% | $4,400 | ||
41Frontiers in NeuroscienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.93Q1 | 4.71 0.47 down from 2017 | 1,836 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
42Neurobiology of AgingElsevier BV · United States | 1.89Q1 | 4.80 0.05 up from 2017 | 935 | 55% | $3,430 | ||
43Social CognitionGuilford Press · United States | 1.83Q1 | 2.15 0.06 up from 2017 | 93 | 20% | — | ||
44ACM Transactions on Accessible ComputingAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.83Q1 | 3.33 0.59 up from 2017 | 70 | 41% | — | ||
45Journal of Neural EngineeringIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.80Q1 | 5.30 0.38 up from 2017 | 498 | 84% | $3,325 | ||
46Journal of Applied Research in Memory and CognitionElsevier BV · United States | 1.79Q1 | 3.02 0.59 up from 2017 | 191 | 19% | $3,000 | ||
47International Journal of Neural SystemsWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.77Q1 | 6.18 1.37 up from 2017 | 162 | 41% | — | ||
48IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation EngineeringOAInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.76Q1 | 3.59 0.28 up from 2017 | 581 | 40% | $2,075 | ||
49Mind Brain and EducationWiley · United Kingdom | 1.74Q1 | 2.71 0.66 up from 2017 | 79 | 20% | $3,570 | ||
50Biomedical Signal Processing and ControlElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.73Q1 | 3.93 0.35 up from 2017 | 563 | 14% | $2,590 |
Subfields of Neuroscience, with Cognitive Neuroscience highlighted.
- Cognitive Neuroscience255
- Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience29
- Neurology19
- Sensory Systems8
- Behavioral Neuroscience4
- Biological Psychiatry2
- Developmental Neuroscience2
- Endocrine and Autonomic Systems2
Journals
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
77 additional Cognitive Neuroscience journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2015–2017, 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: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 255
- Window papers (baseline)
- 81,209 +5.9% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 1.0181 -4.0% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 26
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 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.