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Cognitive Processing is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.7), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 1612-4782Verify ISSN ↗1612-4790Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$3,990 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Intelligence | 293 / 570 | 48th | Q3 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 104 / 169 | 38th | Q3 |
| Cognitive Neuroscience | 81 / 129 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.7.
Cognitive Processing is Q3 in Artificial Intelligence (rank 293 of 570), Q3 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 104 of 169) and Q3 in Cognitive Neuroscience (rank 81 of 129), by CiteScore 2025.
Cognitive Processing 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 48th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.517, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 61.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,990 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 Processing is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 1612-4782 and its online ISSN is 1612-4790.
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.
Cognitive Processing has an h-index of 75 and a 2-year mean of 1.74 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #249 of 407 Scopus journals in Artificial Intelligence.
Cognitive Processing published 67 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 81. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (25.5%), Türkiye (11.1%) and Japan (7.3%).
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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