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Cognitive Neuroscience journal rankings 2025

287 ranked journals · Subfield in Neuroscience

Cognitive Neuroscience has 287 ranked journals in 2025. The median journal has an OJR of 0.88, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.01 on 2024; Q1 starts at OJR 1.24. The two highest-scoring journals with stable ranks are Nature Human Behaviour and Nature Neuroscience: each is likely ranked within the top 3.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2025. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2022–2024, the window the 2025 score is computed on.

287
81% of Neuroscience
Median OJR

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.

0.88-0.01 vs 2024
This subfieldAll 0.78World 1.00
Open-access journals

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.

26%
All fields: 38%
Median listed APC

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.

$3,470
Median positive listed APC: $3,470 among 171 journals. Another 3 list $0; 113 have no known price. All fields: $3,200.

Subfields of Neuroscience (8)

287 ranked journals

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Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

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Cognitive Neuroscience ranking, 2025

Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest.

The small range under it is the likely rank range: in 95% of 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers, it ranked inside that range. Journals whose ranges overlap are not clearly different.

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.

OJR

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 2024. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2022–2024, the window the 2025 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 2022–2024 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 2016 to 2025.

A label compares the 2022→2025 change with the median change of the journal’s field or domain. Rising needs a relative change of +10% or more that is at least 2 standard errors above zero; Falling needs -9.1% or less (rounded), at least 2 standard errors below zero. Sorting uses that relative change.

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Rank 1; likely between #1 and #2 of 287Nature Human BehaviourNature Portfolio · United Kingdom
5.22Q112.54 0.80 up from 202478646%$12,690Falling vs field, 2022–25
Rank 2; likely between #1 and #2 of 287Nature NeuroscienceNature Portfolio · United States
4.95Q115.28 1.12 down from 202475857%$12,690Falling vs field, 2022–25
Rank 3; likely between #3 and #5 of 287NeuronCell Press · United States
3.80Q112.76 0.72 up from 20241,05663%$10,400Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 4; likely between #3 and #7 of 287Current Directions in Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
3.51Q15.96 1.61 down from 202418570%$3,900
Rank 5; likely between #3 and #11 of 287Annual Review of PsychologyAnnual Reviews · United States
3.47Q119.41 7.55 down from 20248293%—
Rank 6; likely between #4 and #8 of 287Molecular PsychiatrySpringer Nature · United Kingdom
3.09Q110.40 0.45 down from 20241,40270%$5,490
Rank 7; likely between #4 and #17 of 287Communications PsychologyOASpringer Science+Business Media
2.78Q15.72 2.06 up from 2024173100%$2,090
Rank 8; likely between #6 and #15 of 287Nature reviews. NeuroscienceNature Portfolio · United Kingdom
2.66Q113.48 0.05 up from 202432817%—
Rank 9; likely between #4 and #36 of 287Brain InformaticsOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
2.65Q112.71 5.68 up from 202496100%$1,090
Rank 10; likely between #6 and #21 of 287Psychological ReviewAmerican Psychological Association · United States
2.54Q15.40 1.80 down from 202418357%—
Rank 11; likely between #7 and #18 of 287Psychological ScienceSAGE Publishing · United States
2.48Q14.87 0.75 down from 202433071%$3,900Falling vs field, 2022–25
Rank 12; likely between #9 and #16 of 287Translational PsychiatryOASpringer Nature · United States
2.41Q18.10 0.70 up from 20241,388100%$5,290Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 13; likely between #7 and #37 of 287ACM Transactions on Accessible ComputingAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States
2.30Q14.50 0.97 down from 20248075%—
Rank 14; likely between #8 and #34 of 287Nature Reviews PsychologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom
2.23Q18.78 2.09 down from 202438214%—
Rank 15; likely between #12 and #28 of 287IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation EngineeringOAInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers · United States
2.15Q17.60 0.77 up from 20241,197100%$2,075Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 16; likely between #8 and #42 of 287Neuroscience of ConsciousnessOAUniversity of Oxford · United Kingdom
2.13Q15.42 1.21 down from 202483100%$2,544
Rank 17; likely between #14 and #27 of 287Neuroscience & Biobehavioral ReviewsElsevier BV · United States
2.11Q18.93 0.20 down from 20241,17266%$4,860Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 18; likely between #10 and #37 of 287Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive ScienceWiley · United States
2.11Q14.25 0.79 down from 20248950%$4,150
Rank 19; likely between #11 and #38 of 287npj Science of LearningOANature Portfolio · United Kingdom
2.09Q15.14 1.24 up from 2024168100%$2,690
Rank 20; likely between #16 and #27 of 287Biomedical Signal Processing and ControlElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.08Q17.56 0.54 up from 20243,49717%$2,590Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 21; likely between #12 and #36 of 287Molecular AutismOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
2.08Q16.28 0.15 down from 2024148100%$3,990
Rank 22; likely between #14 and #33 of 287AutismSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
2.06Q15.81 0.63 down from 202460374%$3,900Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 23; likely between #13 and #33 of 287Behavior Research MethodsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States
2.05Q15.53 0.78 up from 202477971%$3,990
Rank 24; likely between #14 and #37 of 287Developmental Cognitive NeuroscienceOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.01Q14.91 0.91 down from 2024390100%$3,650
Rank 25; likely between #11 and #44 of 287Annual Review of NeuroscienceAnnual Reviews · United States
2.01Q116.79 0.07 up from 20246496%—
Rank 26; likely between #12 and #42 of 287Annals of the New York Academy of SciencesWiley · United States
1.96Q14.68 1.17 down from 202447465%$5,080
Rank 27; likely between #14 and #42 of 287Health Information Science and SystemsSpringer Nature · United Kingdom
1.95Q15.97 1.10 up from 202415593%$2,590
Rank 28; likely between #13 and #42 of 287Autism in AdulthoodMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States
1.94Q14.66 2.86 down from 202421553%—
Rank 29; likely between #14 and #42 of 287Progress in NeurobiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.92Q14.69 2.16 down from 202424666%$5,190
Rank 30; likely between #20 and #40 of 287Biological PsychiatryElsevier BV · United States
1.88Q15.31 0.49 up from 202493120%$5,489
Rank 31; likely between #26 and #38 of 287NeuroImageOAElsevier BV · United States
1.85Q15.60 0.05 down from 20241,825100%$3,540
Rank 32; likely between #8 and #68 of 287Autism ResearchWiley · United States
1.84Q13.89 2.19 down from 202457671%$4,740
Rank 33; likely between #9 and #76 of 287Trends in Neuroscience and EducationElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.83Q14.73 0.33 up from 20246369%$3,880
Rank 34; likely between #22 and #43 of 287Trends in Cognitive SciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.82Q19.56 0.24 down from 202447451%$7,030
Rank 35; likely between #24 and #43 of 287Journal of Experimental Psychology GeneralAmerican Psychological Association
1.79Q13.79 0.52 down from 202452945%—
Rank 36; likely between #29 and #42 of 287Current BiologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.76Q15.07 0.23 up from 20242,73365%$7,030
Rank 37; likely between #10 and #83 of 287Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain SciencesSAGE Publishing · United States
1.75Q14.36 1.49 up from 20249432%$3,400
Rank 38; likely between #27 and #45 of 287Trends in NeurosciencesElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.74Q19.30 1.21 down from 202436854%$7,030Rising vs field, 2022–25
Rank 39; likely between #15 and #81 of 287Journal of Memory and LanguageElsevier BV · United States
1.68Q14.02 0.81 up from 202414972%$4,670
Rank 40; likely between #27 and #67 of 287British Journal of PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom
1.60Q13.67 0.05 down from 202417972%$3,800
Rank 41; likely between #25 and #78 of 287Cognitive PsychologyElsevier BV · United States
1.58Q12.87 1.02 down from 20248161%$3,570
Rank 42; likely between #21 and #94 of 287Review of Philosophy and PsychologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
1.58Q12.63 0.01 down from 202415184%$3,090
Rank 43; likely between #23 and #100 of 287NeurodiversitySAGE Publishing
1.52Q14.12 1.62 up from 202458100%$0 listed
Rank 44; likely between #33 and #77 of 287Topics in Cognitive ScienceWiley · United States
1.50Q13.36 0.19 down from 202418077%$3,470
Rank 45; likely between #16 and #129 of 287Neuroscience InformaticsOAElsevier BV · France
1.49Q15.07 0.21 down from 2024102100%$1,590
Rank 46; likely between #43 and #58 of 287Human Brain MappingOAWiley · United States
1.47Q14.31 0.41 up from 20241,075100%$3,520
Rank 47; likely between #43 and #60 of 287NeuroImage ClinicalOAElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.47Q14.46 0.10 up from 2024785100%$3,490
Rank 48; likely between #11 and #157 of 287AIMS neuroscienceOAAIMS Press · United States
1.46Q15.06 2.03 up from 202493100%$300
Rank 49; likely between #42 and #63 of 287Brain CommunicationsOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom
1.45Q14.16 0.21 down from 20241,213100%$4,024
Rank 50; likely between #39 and #76 of 287Reviews in the NeurosciencesDe Gruyter · Germany
1.45Q15.24 0.19 up from 202413833%$2,712

The endpoints below each rank show its likely range. How rank ranges are calculated

Citations made in 2025. Corpus-wide, 84.3% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

30 additional Cognitive Neuroscience journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2022–2024, 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2025. Publication window: 2022–2024. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
287
Window papers (baseline)
100,706 +5.2% from indicator year 2022
Median OJR
0.880 -3.4% from indicator year 2022
Rising journals (2025)
26

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2022–2024 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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals150154162170174177177181185193208215222226228240247250255260260270279285290287
Window papers (baseline)28,43330,52132,26834,37136,15039,42741,99745,01547,19251,95756,01466,01869,85874,02573,49976,68779,53679,86781,20983,22187,07190,82495,72998,039100,191100,706
Median OJR0.840.8770.9040.930.941.011.051.0161.01791.0691.101.081.171.151.121.0611.0661.0581.01811.0680.980.920.910.9010.890.880

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.