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Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.5), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 2352-1546Verify ISSN ↗2352-1554Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,360 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Behavioral Neuroscience | 10 / 93 | 89th | Q1 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 76 / 580 | 86th | Q1 |
| Cognitive Neuroscience | 23 / 129 | 82nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.5.
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences is Q1 in Behavioral Neuroscience (rank 10 of 93), Q1 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 76 of 580) and Q1 in Cognitive Neuroscience (rank 23 of 129), by CiteScore 2025.
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 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 7.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.363, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 96.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,360 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.
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2352-1546 and its online ISSN is 2352-1554.
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.
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences has an h-index of 121 and a 2-year mean of 6.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #6 of 91 Scopus journals in Behavioral Neuroscience.
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences published 114 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (50.9%), United Kingdom (7.4%) and Germany (5.2%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.6 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.
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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