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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.9), WoS SCIE/SSCI. Published by MIT Press.
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ISSN 0898-929XVerify ISSN ↗1530-8898Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: MIT Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cognitive Neuroscience | 48 / 129 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.9.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience is Q2 in Cognitive Neuroscience (rank 48 of 129), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences 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 4.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.198, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 249.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience is published by MIT Press. Its print ISSN is 0898-929X and its online ISSN is 1530-8898.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience has an h-index of 310 and a 2-year mean of 3.39 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #32 of 128 Scopus journals in Cognitive Neuroscience.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience published 164 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 185. 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 (39.3%), China (10.3%) and Germany (7.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 6 retracted papers are recorded (1.1 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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