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Cognitive Systems Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.3), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 1389-0417Verify ISSN ↗2214-4366Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,030 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 17 / 169 | 90th | Q1 |
| Cognitive Neuroscience | 33 / 129 | 74th | Q2 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 176 / 570 | 69th | Q2 |
| Software | 161 / 503 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.3.
Cognitive Systems Research is Q1 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 17 of 169), Q2 in Cognitive Neuroscience (rank 33 of 129) and Q2 in Artificial Intelligence (rank 176 of 570), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Cognitive Systems Research is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and 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 6.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.719, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 76.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,030 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 Systems Research is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 1389-0417 and its online ISSN is 2214-4366.
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 and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Cognitive Systems Research has an h-index of 87 and a 2-year mean of 3.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #8 of 164 Scopus journals in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.
Cognitive Systems Research published 72 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 203. 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 92 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (17.8%), China (10.1%) and Italy (8.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 70 retracted papers are recorded (45.7 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 4 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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