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Brain Pathology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Wiley-Blackwell.
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ISSN 1015-6305Verify ISSN ↗1750-3639Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 7 / 209 | 96th | Q1 |
| Neurology (clinical) | 31 / 403 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Neuroscience (all) | 12 / 112 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.9.
Brain Pathology is Q1 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 7 of 209), Q1 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 31 of 403) and Q1 in Neuroscience (all) (rank 12 of 112), by CiteScore 2025.
Brain Pathology 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 10.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.955, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 159.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,080 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 Pathology is published by Wiley-Blackwell. Its print ISSN is 1015-6305 and its online ISSN is 1750-3639.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Brain Pathology has an h-index of 184 and a 2-year mean of 3.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #24 of 208 Scopus journals in Pathology and Forensic Medicine.
Brain Pathology published 80 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 122. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (30%), China (10.5%) and France (7.7%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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