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Cognition and Emotion is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.7), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0269-9931Verify ISSN ↗1464-0600Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 72 / 692 | 89th | Q1 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 46 / 169 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 110 / 380 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.7.
Cognition and Emotion is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 72 of 692), Q2 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 46 of 169) and Q2 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 110 of 380), by CiteScore 2025.
Cognition and Emotion is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 4.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.944, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 163.
Cognition and Emotion is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0269-9931 and its online ISSN is 1464-0600.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Cognition and Emotion has an h-index of 218 and a 2-year mean of 2.43 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #52 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Cognition and Emotion published 142 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 186. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (22%), Germany (9.6%) and United Kingdom (7.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.6 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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