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Journal of Cognition is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Ubiquity Press.
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ISSN 2514-4820Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 62 / 169 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.1.
Journal of Cognition is Q2 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 62 of 169), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Cognition is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 4.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.216, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 27.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,240 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.
Journal of Cognition is published by Ubiquity Press. Its ISSN is 2514-4820.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Cognition has an h-index of 35 and a 2-year mean of 3.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #14 of 164 Scopus journals in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.
Journal of Cognition published 55 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 74. 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 Germany (27.8%), Belgium (7.5%) and United Kingdom (7.5%).
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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