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Brain and Cognition is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Academic Press Inc..
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ISSN 0278-2626Verify ISSN ↗1090-2147Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Academic Press Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,180 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 136 / 692 | 80th | Q1 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 185 / 380 | 51st | Q2 |
| Cognitive Neuroscience | 72 / 129 | 44th | Q3 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 97 / 169 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology | 45 / 77 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1982–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.
Brain and Cognition is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 136 of 692), Q2 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 185 of 380) and Q3 in Cognitive Neuroscience (rank 72 of 129), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Brain and Cognition 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 3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.654, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 147.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,180 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.
Brain and Cognition is published by Academic Press Inc. Its print ISSN is 0278-2626 and its online ISSN is 1090-2147.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Brain and Cognition has an h-index of 187 and a 2-year mean of 2.65 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #42 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Brain and Cognition published 79 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 118. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (21.2%), China (17.7%) and Italy (8.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is 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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