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Brain Communications is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.7), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 2632-1297Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 99 / 580 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Neurology | 41 / 201 | 79th | Q1 |
| Biological Psychiatry | 14 / 54 | 75th | Q1 |
| Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience | 38 / 102 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.7.
Brain Communications is Q1 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 99 of 580), Q1 in Neurology (rank 41 of 201) and Q1 in Biological Psychiatry (rank 14 of 54), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Brain Communications is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 6.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.766, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 52.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,024 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 Communications is published by Oxford University Press. Its ISSN is 2632-1297.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Brain Communications has an h-index of 69 and a 2-year mean of 4.38 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #52 of 570 Scopus journals in Psychiatry and Mental Health.
Brain Communications published 442 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 513. 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 (2026), authors are most often from United States (24.4%), United Kingdom (12.4%) and Germany (8.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (1.5 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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