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Journal of Consciousness Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.4), WoS AHCI/SSCI. Published by Imprint Academic.
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ISSN 1355-8250Verify ISSN ↗2051-2201Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Imprint Academic
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 115 / 891 | 87th | Q1 |
| Psychology (miscellaneous) | 52 / 118 | 56th | Q2 |
| Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics | 359 / 736 | 51st | Q2 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 309 / 570 | 45th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.4.
Journal of Consciousness Studies is Q1 in Philosophy (rank 115 of 891), Q2 in Psychology (miscellaneous) (rank 52 of 118) and Q2 in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (rank 359 of 736), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Consciousness Studies is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index 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 2.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.599, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 81.
Journal of Consciousness Studies is published by Imprint Academic. Its print ISSN is 1355-8250 and its online ISSN is 2051-2201.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Consciousness Studies has an h-index of 65 and a 2-year mean of 1.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #130 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Journal of Consciousness Studies published 67 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 76. 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 89 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (44.6%), United Kingdom (8.4%) and Norway (5.6%).
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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