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Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.4), ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI, DOAJ. Published by SpringerOpen.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 14 / 169 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Cognitive Neuroscience | 32 / 129 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.4.
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications is Q1 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 14 of 169) and Q1 in Cognitive Neuroscience (rank 32 of 129), by CiteScore 2025.
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications 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 6.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.130, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 51.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,990 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 Research: Principles and Implications is published by SpringerOpen. Its ISSN is 2365-7464.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Psychology (General) field, unchanged from 2021.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications has an h-index of 60 and a 2-year mean of 3.65 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #12 of 164 Scopus journals in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications published 86 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 104. 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 United States (35.2%), China (13%) and Germany (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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