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Human Cognitive Processing is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.1). Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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ISSN 1387-6724Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 351 / 1137 | 69th | Q2 |
| Linguistics and Language | 427 / 1221 | 65th | Q2 |
| Computer Science Applications | 810 / 1022 | 20th | Q4 |
| Cognitive Neuroscience | 106 / 129 | 18th | Q4 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 143 / 169 | 15th | 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 2022–2024 (also 2001–2020, 1998–1999), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.1.
Human Cognitive Processing is Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 351 of 1137), Q2 in Linguistics and Language (rank 427 of 1221) and Q4 in Computer Science Applications (rank 810 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Human Cognitive Processing 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 1.1, quartile Q2, 69th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.116, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 35.
Human Cognitive Processing is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Its ISSN is 1387-6724.
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.
Human Cognitive Processing has an h-index of 71 and a 2-year mean of 0.02 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #865 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Human Cognitive Processing published 50 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 89. 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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