Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Subfield ranking · 2019
Cognitive Neuroscience journal rankings 2019
260 ranked journals · Subfield in Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience has 260 ranked journals in 2019. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.07 against 1.00, up 0.05 on 2018. A journal needs OJR 1.52 to reach Q1. The top three are Nature Neuroscience, Nature Human Behaviour, and Current Directions in Psychological Science.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. 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 2016–2018, the window the 2019 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)
260 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 2018. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2016–2018 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 2010 to 2019. | Compare |
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1Nature NeuroscienceNature Portfolio · United States | 6.64Q1 | 19.11 0.24 up from 2018 | 693 | 69% | $12,690 | ||
2Nature Human BehaviourNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 5.71Q1 | 8.20 0.57 up from 2018 | 447 | 40% | $12,690 | ||
3Current Directions in Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.67Q1 | 8.24 1.48 up from 2018 | 240 | 37% | $3,900 | ||
4Psychological ReviewAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 4.67Q1 | 9.07 0.86 up from 2018 | 111 | 50% | — | ||
5Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.35Q1 | 7.17 1.02 up from 2018 | 566 | 38% | $3,900 | ||
6NeuronCell Press · United States | 4.23Q1 | 12.77 0.48 up from 2018 | 1,610 | 100% | $10,400 | ||
7Progress in NeurobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.79Q1 | 9.55 0.99 down from 2018 | 186 | 41% | $5,190 | ||
8Molecular PsychiatrySpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 3.53Q1 | 10.30 0.43 down from 2018 | 755 | 76% | $5,490 | ||
9Cognitive PsychologyElsevier BV · United States | 3.09Q1 | 5.65 0.74 up from 2018 | 106 | 39% | $3,570 | ||
10npj Science of LearningOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 3.03Q1 | 5.00 0.74 down from 2018 | 50 | 100% | $2,690 | ||
11Annual Review of PsychologyAnnual Reviews · United States | 3.01Q1 | 18.92 0.64 down from 2018 | 74 | 38% | — | ||
12Behavior Research MethodsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.92Q1 | 4.74 0.20 up from 2018 | 457 | 99% | $3,990 | ||
13Neuroscience & Biobehavioral ReviewsElsevier BV · United States | 2.70Q1 | 9.80 0.03 down from 2018 | 940 | 54% | $4,860 | ||
14Journal of CognitionOAUbiquity Press · United Kingdom | 2.67Q1 | 5.33 4.66 up from 2018 | 43 | 100% | $1,240 | ||
15Journal of Experimental Psychology GeneralAmerican Psychological Association | 2.64Q1 | 4.66 0.01 down from 2018 | 397 | 35% | — | ||
16CognitionElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.64Q1 | 4.87 0.02 up from 2018 | 712 | 53% | $3,910 | ||
17Psychonomic Bulletin & ReviewSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.63Q1 | 6.19 1.17 up from 2018 | 557 | 96% | $3,790 | ||
18Molecular AutismOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.61Q1 | 7.55 0.16 down from 2018 | 179 | 100% | $3,990 | ||
19Developmental Cognitive NeuroscienceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.61Q1 | 5.94 0.42 up from 2018 | 267 | 100% | $3,650 | ||
20Current BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.56Q1 | 6.35 0.27 up from 2018 | 2,657 | 99% | $7,030 | ||
21Nature reviews. NeuroscienceNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.54Q1 | 12.92 0.53 up from 2018 | 503 | 24% | — | ||
22Biological PsychiatryElsevier BV · United States | 2.51Q1 | 6.40 0.65 up from 2018 | 949 | 17% | $5,489 | ||
23Translational PsychiatryOASpringer Nature · United States | 2.45Q1 | 6.88 0.02 down from 2018 | 857 | 100% | $5,290 | ||
24Annals of the New York Academy of SciencesWiley · United States | 2.44Q1 | 5.48 0.68 up from 2018 | 822 | 51% | $5,080 | ||
25Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive ScienceWiley · United States | 2.39Q1 | 4.49 0.37 up from 2018 | 93 | 36% | $4,150 | ||
26NeuroImageOAElsevier BV · United States | 2.38Q1 | 6.40 0.05 up from 2018 | 2,639 | 72% | $3,540 | ||
27Journal of Memory and LanguageElsevier BV · United States | 2.37Q1 | 5.04 0.86 down from 2018 | 221 | 57% | $4,670 | ||
28Trends in Cognitive SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.27Q1 | 12.70 0.77 up from 2018 | 385 | 58% | $7,030 | ||
29Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain SciencesSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.22Q1 | 2.19 0.15 down from 2018 | 85 | 31% | $3,400 | ||
30Mind & LanguageWiley · United Kingdom | 2.18Q1 | 3.39 0.93 up from 2018 | 112 | 44% | $4,150 | ||
31Brain InformaticsOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.17Q1 | 5.58 1.12 up from 2018 | 62 | 100% | $1,090 | ||
32Topics in Cognitive ScienceWiley · United States | 2.15Q1 | 3.30 0.56 up from 2018 | 207 | 78% | $3,470 | ||
33Social CognitionGuilford Press · United States | 2.14Q1 | 3.00 0.85 up from 2018 | 90 | 27% | — | ||
34Social Cognitive and Affective NeuroscienceOAUniversity of Oxford · United Kingdom | 2.10Q1 | 4.43 0.53 down from 2018 | 452 | 100% | $2,379 | ||
35Journal of NeuroscienceSociety for Neuroscience · United States | 2.10Q1 | 5.74 0.55 down from 2018 | 3,151 | 99% | — | ||
36NeuroinformaticsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.08Q1 | 3.27 2.61 down from 2018 | 117 | 55% | $4,890 | ||
37British Journal of PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 2.05Q1 | 4.09 0.49 up from 2018 | 143 | 42% | $3,800 | ||
38NeuroImage ClinicalOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.02Q1 | 5.06 0.52 up from 2018 | 1,005 | 100% | $3,490 | ||
39Cognitive Research Principles and ImplicationsOASpringer Nature · Switzerland | 1.99Q1 | 4.55 1.77 up from 2018 | 136 | 100% | $1,990 | ||
40Human Brain MappingOAWiley · United States | 1.97Q1 | 4.82 0.44 down from 2018 | 1,184 | 96% | $3,520 | ||
41The NeuroscientistSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.97Q1 | 5.39 0.42 up from 2018 | 156 | 23% | $4,400 | ||
42Health Information Science and SystemsSpringer Nature · United Kingdom | 1.94Q1 | 4.87 2.40 up from 2018 | 43 | 100% | $2,590 | ||
43Brain SciencesOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.89Q1 | 4.76 0.97 up from 2018 | 452 | 100% | $2,654 | ||
44Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and NeuroimagingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.88Q1 | 3.87 0.07 up from 2018 | 360 | 45% | $4,050 | ||
45Bilingualism Language and CognitionCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.85Q1 | 3.34 0.55 up from 2018 | 303 | 61% | $3,550 | ||
46Journal of Neural EngineeringIOP Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 5.26 0.04 down from 2018 | 587 | 71% | $3,325 | ||
47Journal of Applied Research in Memory and CognitionElsevier BV · United States | 1.82Q1 | 3.52 0.50 up from 2018 | 236 | 17% | $3,000 | ||
48Frontiers in NeuroscienceOAFrontiers Media · Switzerland | 1.81Q1 | 4.83 0.12 up from 2018 | 2,304 | 100% | $3,801 | ||
49Cerebral CortexOxford University Press · United States | 1.81Q1 | 4.68 0.44 down from 2018 | 1,146 | 81% | $5,038 | ||
50IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation EngineeringOAInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States | 1.75Q1 | 4.14 0.55 up from 2018 | 655 | 45% | $2,075 |
Subfields of Neuroscience, with Cognitive Neuroscience highlighted.
- Cognitive Neuroscience260
- Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience32
- Neurology19
- Sensory Systems7
- Behavioral Neuroscience4
- Endocrine and Autonomic Systems3
- Biological Psychiatry2
- Developmental Neuroscience1
Journals
Citations made in 2019. Corpus-wide, 83.4% 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 2016–2018, 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: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 260
- Window papers (baseline)
- 83,221 +4.6% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 1.068 +0.2% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 26
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2016–2018 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.