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Genes, Brain and Behavior is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.5), WoS SCIE. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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ISSN 1601-183XVerify ISSN ↗1601-1848Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,540 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Behavioral Neuroscience | 26 / 93 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Neurology | 58 / 201 | 71st | Q2 |
| Genetics | 132 / 357 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.5.
Genes, Brain and Behavior is Q2 in Behavioral Neuroscience (rank 26 of 93), Q2 in Neurology (rank 58 of 201) and Q2 in Genetics (rank 132 of 357), by CiteScore 2025.
Genes, Brain and Behavior 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 5.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.054, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 107.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,540 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.
Genes, Brain and Behavior is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1601-183X and its online ISSN is 1601-1848.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Genes, Brain and Behavior has an h-index of 123 and a 2-year mean of 2.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #45 of 91 Scopus journals in Behavioral Neuroscience.
Genes, Brain and Behavior published 46 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 106. 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 98 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (52.1%), United Kingdom (9.8%) and China (6.6%). 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. 4 retracted papers are recorded (1.9 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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