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Brain Impairment is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.5), WoS SCIE. Published by Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.
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ISSN 1443-9646Verify ISSN ↗1839-5252Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speech and Hearing | 32 / 68 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Neurology (clinical) | 261 / 403 | 35th | Q3 |
| Cognitive Neuroscience | 84 / 129 | 35th | Q3 |
| Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology | 51 / 77 | 34th | Q3 |
| Neurology | 135 / 201 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Behavioral Neuroscience | 72 / 93 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present (also 2004), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.5.
Brain Impairment is Q2 in Speech and Hearing (rank 32 of 68), Q3 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 261 of 403) and Q3 in Cognitive Neuroscience (rank 84 of 129), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Brain Impairment 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 53rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.423, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 32.
Brain Impairment is published by Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. Its print ISSN is 1443-9646 and its online ISSN is 1839-5252.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Brain Impairment has an h-index of 39 and a 2-year mean of 1.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #19 of 68 Scopus journals in Speech and Hearing.
Brain Impairment published 41 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 60. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from Australia (56.1%), United States (8.4%) and United Kingdom (8.3%). 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 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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