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Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 1530-7026Verify ISSN ↗1531-135XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: About US$3,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Behavioral Neuroscience | 24 / 93 | 74th | Q2 |
| Cognitive Neuroscience | 41 / 129 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.7.
Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience is Q2 in Behavioral Neuroscience (rank 24 of 93) and Q2 in Cognitive Neuroscience (rank 41 of 129), by CiteScore 2025.
Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience 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 5.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.365, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 120.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,190 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.
Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 1530-7026 and its online ISSN is 1531-135X.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience has an h-index of 137 and a 2-year mean of 3.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #26 of 91 Scopus journals in Behavioral Neuroscience.
Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience published 128 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (25.5%), China (15.8%) and Germany (9.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 8 retracted papers are recorded (4.3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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