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Cognitive Computation is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.3), WoS SCIE. Published by Springer New York.
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ISSN 1866-9956Verify ISSN ↗1866-9964Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer New York
Cost to publish: About US$3,090 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cognitive Neuroscience | 7 / 129 | 94th | Q1 |
| Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition | 14 / 183 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 98 / 1022 | 90th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.3.
Cognitive Computation is Q1 in Cognitive Neuroscience (rank 7 of 129), Q1 in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (rank 14 of 183) and Q1 in Computer Science Applications (rank 98 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025.
Cognitive Computation 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 12.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.197, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 81.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,090 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 Computation is published by Springer New York. Its print ISSN is 1866-9956 and its online ISSN is 1866-9964.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Cognitive Computation has an h-index of 89 and a 2-year mean of 6.76 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #7 of 128 Scopus journals in Cognitive Neuroscience.
Cognitive Computation published 144 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 178. 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 China (33%), India (12.1%) and Spain (4.9%).
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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