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Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 15.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by BMJ Publishing Group.
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ISSN 0022-3050Verify ISSN ↗1468-330XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 3 / 597 | 99th | Q1 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 14 / 580 | 97th | Q1 |
| Neurology (clinical) | 13 / 403 | 96th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1945–present (also 1920–1937), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 15.1.
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry is Q1 in Surgery (rank 3 of 597), Q1 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 14 of 580) and Q1 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 13 of 403), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 15.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.931, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 255.
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry is published by BMJ Publishing Group. Its print ISSN is 0022-3050 and its online ISSN is 1468-330X.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry has an h-index of 340 and a 2-year mean of 6.81 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 15.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry published 136 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 953. 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 (2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (21.7%), United States (10.5%) and Italy (8.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 12 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 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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