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Behavioral and Brain Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.5), ABS / AJG 4, WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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ISSN 0140-525XVerify ISSN ↗1469-1825Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology | 50 / 77 | 35th | Q3 |
| Behavioral Neuroscience | 71 / 93 | 24th | Q4 |
| Physiology | 161 / 196 | 18th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1978–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.5.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences is Q3 in Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology (rank 50 of 77), Q4 in Behavioral Neuroscience (rank 71 of 93) and Q4 in Physiology (rank 161 of 196), by CiteScore 2025.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 35th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.600, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 189.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences is published by Cambridge University Press. Its print ISSN is 0140-525X and its online ISSN is 1469-1825.
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 and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is graded 4 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Psychology (General) field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences has an h-index of 303 and a 2-year mean of 0.99 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #53 of 77 Scopus journals in Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences published 199 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 405. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (42%), United Kingdom (9.1%) and Canada (7.2%).
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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