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Behavioral Neuroscience is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 3.6), WoS SCIE. Published by American Psychological Association.
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ISSN 0735-7044Verify ISSN ↗1939-0084Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Behavioral Neuroscience | 59 / 93 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1983–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 3.6.
Behavioral Neuroscience is Q3 in Behavioral Neuroscience (rank 59 of 93), by CiteScore 2025.
Behavioral Neuroscience 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 37th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.798, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 156.
Behavioral Neuroscience is published by American Psychological Association. Its print ISSN is 0735-7044 and its online ISSN is 1939-0084.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Behavioral Neuroscience has an h-index of 232 and a 2-year mean of 1.72 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #58 of 91 Scopus journals in Behavioral Neuroscience.
Behavioral Neuroscience published 31 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 96. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (57.4%), Australia (6.7%) and South Korea (4.1%). 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 1 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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