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Brain and Language is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4), 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 0093-934XVerify ISSN ↗1090-2155Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Academic Press Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,170 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 94 / 1137 | 91st | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 110 / 1221 | 91st | Q1 |
| Speech and Hearing | 12 / 68 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 65 / 169 | 61st | Q2 |
| Cognitive Neuroscience | 55 / 129 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1974–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.
Brain and Language is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 94 of 1137), Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 110 of 1221) and Q1 in Speech and Hearing (rank 12 of 68), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Brain and Language 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 4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.841, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 152.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,170 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 Language is published by Academic Press Inc. Its print ISSN is 0093-934X and its online ISSN is 1090-2155.
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 Language has an h-index of 215 and a 2-year mean of 1.98 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #95 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Brain and Language published 100 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 111. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (25.2%), United States (20%) and United Kingdom (6.2%).
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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