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Journal of Cognitive Enhancement is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 3.3), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2509-3290Verify ISSN ↗2509-3304Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: About US$3,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 88 / 169 | 48th | Q3 |
| Cognitive Neuroscience | 68 / 129 | 47th | Q3 |
| Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology | 41 / 77 | 47th | Q3 |
| Behavioral Neuroscience | 62 / 93 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 3.3.
Journal of Cognitive Enhancement is Q3 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 88 of 169), Q3 in Cognitive Neuroscience (rank 68 of 129) and Q3 in Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology (rank 41 of 77), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Cognitive Enhancement 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 3.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 48th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.475, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 35.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,190 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 Cognitive Enhancement is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 2509-3290 and its online ISSN is 2509-3304.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Cognitive Enhancement has an h-index of 41 and a 2-year mean of 1.54 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #94 of 164 Scopus journals in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.
Journal of Cognitive Enhancement published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 57. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (32%), Germany (14.7%) and United Kingdom (7.4%).
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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