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Hormones and Behavior is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Academic Press Inc..
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ISSN 0018-506XVerify ISSN ↗1095-6867Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Academic Press Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,640 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Behavioral Neuroscience | 41 / 93 | 56th | Q2 |
| Endocrinology | 76 / 132 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Endocrine and Autonomic Systems | 15 / 23 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1969–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.6.
Hormones and Behavior is Q2 in Behavioral Neuroscience (rank 41 of 93), Q3 in Endocrinology (rank 76 of 132) and Q3 in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems (rank 15 of 23), by CiteScore 2025.
Hormones 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 4.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 56th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.876, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 171.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,640 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.
Hormones and Behavior is published by Academic Press Inc. Its print ISSN is 0018-506X and its online ISSN is 1095-6867.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Hormones and Behavior has an h-index of 203 and a 2-year mean of 2.87 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #32 of 91 Scopus journals in Behavioral Neuroscience.
Hormones and Behavior published 125 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 187. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (43.1%), Canada (13.2%) and China (6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.7 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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