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Acta Neuropathologica is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 16.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0001-6322Verify ISSN ↗1432-0533Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$4,990 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 3 / 209 | 98th | Q1 |
| Neurology (clinical) | 9 / 403 | 97th | Q1 |
| Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience | 7 / 102 | 93rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1961–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 16.9.
Acta Neuropathologica is Q1 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 3 of 209), Q1 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 9 of 403) and Q1 in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (rank 7 of 102), by CiteScore 2025.
Acta Neuropathologica is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 16.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 4.191, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 241.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,990 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Acta Neuropathologica is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0001-6322 and its online ISSN is 1432-0533.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Acta Neuropathologica has an h-index of 291 and a 2-year mean of 10.99 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 16.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 208 Scopus journals in Pathology and Forensic Medicine.
Acta Neuropathologica published 132 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 185. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (35.2%), France (8.7%) and United Kingdom (6.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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