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Fluids and Barriers of the CNS is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.1), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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ISSN 2045-8118Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Developmental Neuroscience | 2 / 38 | 96th | Q1 |
| Neurology | 18 / 201 | 91st | Q1 |
| Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience | 16 / 102 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.1.
Fluids and Barriers of the CNS is Q1 in Developmental Neuroscience (rank 2 of 38), Q1 in Neurology (rank 18 of 201) and Q1 in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (rank 16 of 102), by CiteScore 2025.
Fluids and Barriers of the CNS 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 11.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.439, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 77.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,390 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.
Fluids and Barriers of the CNS is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its ISSN is 2045-8118.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Fluids and Barriers of the CNS has an h-index of 89 and a 2-year mean of 6.75 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 37 Scopus journals in Developmental Neuroscience.
Fluids and Barriers of the CNS published 136 papers in 2025. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (23.2%), China (17.4%) and Germany (12.5%).
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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