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Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0). Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 1569-7339Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cognitive Neuroscience | 128 / 129 | 0th | Q4 |
| Behavioral Neuroscience | 93 / 93 | 0th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024–present (also 2018–2020, 2016, 2013, 2010, 2008, 2006, 1993–1994, 1991), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.
Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience is Q4 in Cognitive Neuroscience (rank 128 of 129) and Q4 in Behavioral Neuroscience (rank 93 of 93), by CiteScore 2025.
Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0, quartile Q4, 0th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.133, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 31.
Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 1569-7339.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 0.18 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #120 of 128 Scopus journals in Cognitive Neuroscience.
Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience published 147 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2010 with 159. 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.
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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