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Brain Mechanisms is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.8), WoS SCIE. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 3050-6425Verify ISSN ↗3050-6433Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,580 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neuroscience (miscellaneous) | 20 / 74 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Neurology | 55 / 201 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience | 48 / 102 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.8.
Brain Mechanisms is Q2 in Neuroscience (miscellaneous) (rank 20 of 74), Q2 in Neurology (rank 55 of 201) and Q2 in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (rank 48 of 102), by CiteScore 2025.
Brain Mechanisms 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 5.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,580 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 Mechanisms is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 3050-6425 and its online ISSN is 3050-6433.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Brain Mechanisms has an h-index of 2 and a 2-year mean of 0.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #61 of 73 Scopus journals in Neuroscience (miscellaneous).
Brain Mechanisms published 22 papers in 2025. 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 26 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (20.2%), Türkiye (12.5%) and China (12.5%).
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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