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Cortex is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.8), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Masson SpA.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0010-9452Verify ISSN ↗1973-8102Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Masson SpA
Cost to publish: About US$3,830 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 21 / 169 | 87th | Q1 |
| Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology | 15 / 77 | 81st | Q1 |
| Cognitive Neuroscience | 39 / 129 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1968–present (also 1964–1965), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.8.
Cortex is Q1 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 21 of 169), Q1 in Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology (rank 15 of 77) and Q2 in Cognitive Neuroscience (rank 39 of 129), by CiteScore 2025.
Cortex 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 5.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.242, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 155.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,830 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.
Cortex is published by Masson SpA. Its print ISSN is 0010-9452 and its online ISSN is 1973-8102.
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.
Cortex has an h-index of 203 and a 2-year mean of 2.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #25 of 164 Scopus journals in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.
Cortex published 228 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 352. 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 90 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (13.1%), United States (12.5%) and Italy (11.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 per 1,000 papers). 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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