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Basic and Clinical Neuroscience is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Iran University of Medical Sciences.
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ISSN 2008-126XVerify ISSN ↗2228-7442Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Iran University of Medical Sciences
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neurology (clinical) | 284 / 403 | 29th | Q3 |
| Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience | 90 / 102 | 12th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.8.
Basic and Clinical Neuroscience is Q3 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 284 of 403) and Q4 in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (rank 90 of 102), by CiteScore 2025.
Basic and Clinical Neuroscience is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 29th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.398, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 34.
Basic and Clinical Neuroscience is published by Iran University of Medical Sciences. Its print ISSN is 2008-126X and its online ISSN is 2228-7442.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Basic and Clinical Neuroscience has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 0.85 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #285 of 403 Scopus journals in Neurology (clinical).
Basic and Clinical Neuroscience published 76 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 226. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Iran (82.7%), United States (4.5%) and China (3%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. 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.
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