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Encephale is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.4), WoS SCIE. Published by Elsevier Masson s.r.l..
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ISSN 0013-7006Verify ISSN ↗2589-4935Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Masson s.r.l.
Cost to publish: About US$2,240 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 159 / 692 | 77th | Q1 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 347 / 580 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1975–present (also 1949–1973, 1946), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.4.
Encephale is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 159 of 692) and Q3 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 347 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Encephale is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 2.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.449, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 57.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,240 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.
Encephale is published by Elsevier Masson s.r.l. Its print ISSN is 0013-7006 and its online ISSN is 2589-4935.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Encephale has an h-index of 58 and a 2-year mean of 1.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #140 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Encephale published 113 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 152. 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 (2026), authors are most often from France (74.4%), Belgium (4.1%) and United States (3.6%). 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. 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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