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Brain, Behavior and Evolution is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4), WoS SCIE. Published by S. Karger AG.
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ISSN 0006-8977Verify ISSN ↗1421-9743Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: S. Karger AG
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Developmental Neuroscience | 16 / 38 | 59th | Q2 |
| Behavioral Neuroscience | 48 / 93 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1968–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.
Brain, Behavior and Evolution is Q2 in Developmental Neuroscience (rank 16 of 38) and Q3 in Behavioral Neuroscience (rank 48 of 93), by CiteScore 2025.
Brain, Behavior and Evolution 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 4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 59th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.958, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 90.
Brain, Behavior and Evolution is published by S. Karger AG. Its print ISSN is 0006-8977 and its online ISSN is 1421-9743.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Brain, Behavior and Evolution has an h-index of 139 and a 2-year mean of 1.6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #22 of 37 Scopus journals in Developmental Neuroscience.
Brain, Behavior and Evolution published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 64. 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 91 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (43.6%), Spain (8.1%) and Italy (7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.3 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.
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