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Best Neuroscience (all) journals

112 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Neuroscience (all). All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 28 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Nature Reviews Neuroscience 39.1 99th Q1 SCIE – No
2 Nature Neuroscience 33 98th Q1 SCIE – No
3 Neuron 27 97th Q1 SCIE – No
4 Annual Review of Neuroscience 24.6 96th Q1 SCIE – No
5 Trends in Neurosciences 24.6 95th Q1 SCIE – No
6 Journal of Neuroinflammation 18.3 95th Q1 SCIE – Yes
7 Neuroscience Informatics 13.8 94th Q1 – – Yes
8 EMBO Journal 13.6 93rd Q1 SCIE – Yes
9 Brain Stimulation 12.8 92nd Q1 SCIE – Yes
10 Progress in Neurobiology 11.6 91st Q1 SCIE – No
11 IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 11 90th Q1 SCIE – Yes
12 Brain Pathology 10.9 89th Q1 SCIE – Yes
13 Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science 10.6 88th Q1 SSCI – No
14 Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports 10.5 87th Q1 SCIE – No
15 Neuroscientist 10.3 87th Q1 SCIE – No
16 Current Opinion in Neurobiology 9.6 86th Q1 SCIE – No
17 Nutritional Neuroscience 9.5 85th Q1 SCIE – No
18 Reviews in the Neurosciences 9.4 84th Q1 SCIE – No
19 PLOS Biology 9.2 83rd Q1 SCIE – Yes
20 Autism Research 9.2 82nd Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
21 Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 9.1 81st Q1 SCIE – No
22 Translational Stroke Research 8.9 80th Q1 SCIE – No
23 Neuroscience Bulletin 8.3 79th Q1 SCIE – No
24 ASN Neuro 8.2 79th Q1 SCIE – Yes
25 Neural Processing Letters 8.1 78th Q1 SCIE – No
26 Neurotoxicity Research 8.1 77th Q1 SCIE – No
27 NeuroToxicology 8 76th Q1 SCIE – No
28 Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 7.9 75th Q1 SCIE – No
29 Frontiers in Neuroscience 7.4 74th Q2 SCIE – Yes
30 CNS and Neurological Disorders - Drug Targets 7.3 73rd Q2 SCIE – No
31 Neurobiology of Aging 7.2 72nd Q2 SCIE – No
32 Network Neuroscience 7.2 71st Q2 SCIE – Yes
33 Journal of Neuroscience 6.9 70th Q2 SCIE – No
34 Journal of Vestibular Research: Equilibrium and Orientation 6.7 70th Q2 SCIE – No
35 Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology 6.7 69th Q2 SCIE – Yes
36 Brain Structure and Function 6.6 68th Q2 SCIE – No
37 Neuroinformatics 6.6 67th Q2 SCIE – No
38 Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics 6.3 66th Q2 SCIE – No
39 Brain Multiphysics 6.1 65th Q2 – – No
40 Open Biology 6.1 64th Q2 SCIE – Yes
41 Brain Sciences 6 63rd Q2 SCIE – Yes
42 Biological Psychology 5.9 62nd Q2 SCIE, SSCI – No
43 American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and other Dementias 5.9 61st Q2 SCIE – Yes
44 Brain Research Bulletin 5.9 61st Q2 SCIE – Yes
45 Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 5.7 60th Q2 SCIE – No
46 Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 5.6 59th Q2 SCIE – No
47 AIMS Neuroscience 5.5 58th Q2 ESCI – No
48 Neuroscience Research 5.4 57th Q2 SCIE – Yes
49 Clinical and Translational Science 5.4 56th Q2 SCIE – Yes
50 Journal of Neuroscience Methods 5.4 55th Q2 SCIE – No
51 Brain Connectivity 5.3 54th Q2 SCIE – No
52 BMC Neuroscience 5.2 54th Q2 SCIE – Yes
53 International Journal of Psychophysiology 5.1 53rd Q2 SCIE, SSCI – No
54 Journal of Integrative Neuroscience 5 52nd Q2 SCIE – Yes
55 European Journal of Neuroscience 5 51st Q2 SCIE – No
56 PeerJ 4.9 50th Q2 SCIE – Yes
57 Neuroscience Letters 4.7 49th Q3 SCIE – No
58 Neuroscience 4.6 48th Q3 SCIE – No
59 Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System 4.4 47th Q3 SCIE – No
60 Brain Research 4.4 46th Q3 SCIE – No
61 Current Protocols 4.4 45th Q3 ESCI – No
62 Translational Neuroscience 4.4 45th Q3 SCIE – Yes
63 IBRO Neuroscience Reports 4.3 44th Q3 ESCI – Yes
64 International Journal of Neuroscience 4.3 43rd Q3 SCIE – No
65 Journal of Comparative Neurology 4.3 42nd Q3 SCIE – No
66 Annals of Neurosciences 4.2 41st Q3 ESCI – Yes
67 eNeuro 4.1 40th Q3 SCIE – Yes
68 Neuroscience Insights 4.1 39th Q3 ESCI – Yes
69 Journal of Alzheimer's Disease Reports 3.9 38th Q3 ESCI – Yes
70 Journal of Neurophysiology 3.7 37th Q3 SCIE – No
71 Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 3.6 37th Q3 SCIE – No
72 Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology 3.6 36th Q3 SCIE – No
73 Journal of Applied Biomedicine 3.6 35th Q3 SCIE – Yes
74 Biomedical Reports 3.6 34th Q3 ESCI – No
75 Psychology and Neuroscience 3.5 33rd Q3 – – No
76 Experimental Brain Research 3.5 32nd Q3 SCIE – No
77 Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society 3.4 31st Q3 SCIE – Yes
78 Open Life Sciences 3.3 30th Q3 SCIE – Yes
79 Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis 3.2 29th Q3 SCIE – No
80 NeuroReport 3.2 29th Q3 SCIE – No
81 Progress in Brain Research 3.1 28th Q3 – – No
82 Neuropsychoanalysis 3 27th Q3 – – No
83 All Life 2.9 26th Q3 SCIE – Yes
84 Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research 2.9 25th Q3 SCIE – Yes
85 Central Nervous System Agents in Medicinal Chemistry 2.6 24th Q4 – – No
86 Journal of Psychophysiology 2.5 23rd Q4 SCIE, SSCI – No
87 STAR Protocols 2.5 22nd Q4 ESCI – Yes
88 Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery 2.4 21st Q4 ESCI – Yes
89 Communications in Mathematical Biology and Neuroscience 2.4 20th Q4 ESCI – No
90 Neural Network World 2.2 20th Q4 SCIE – No
91 Mathematical Medicine and Biology 2 19th Q4 SCIE – No
92 Noropsikiyatri Arsivi 1.8 18th Q4 SCIE – No
93 Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice 1.8 17th Q4 ESCI – No
94 Bio-protocol 1.7 16th Q4 ESCI – Yes
95 Muscles 1.7 15th Q4 ESCI – Yes
96 Journal of Visualized Experiments 1.7 14th Q4 SCIE – No
97 Advances in Cognitive Psychology 1.6 13th Q4 SSCI – Yes
98 Neuropsychopharmacologia Hungarica 1.5 12th Q4 – – No
99 Neuroscience Journal of Shefaye Khatam 1.5 12th Q4 – – No
100 Neuromethods 1.3 11th Q4 – – No
101 Mind and Matter 1.2 10th Q4 – – No
102 Annals of Clinical and Experimental Neurology 1 9th Q4 – – Yes
103 Neuroimmunology Reports 0.9 8th Q4 – – No
104 Neurophysiology 0.9 7th Q4 SCIE – No
105 Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research 0.9 6th Q4 SCIE – No
106 Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology 0.8 5th Q4 – – No
107 Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 0.8 4th Q4 SCIE – No
108 touchREVIEWS in Neurology 0.8 4th Q4 – – No
109 Journal of Brain Science 0.6 3rd Q4 – – No
110 Zhurnal Vysshei Nervnoi Deyatelnosti Imeni I.P. Pavlova 0.6 2nd Q4 SCIE – No
111 Journal of Army Medical University 0.5 1st Q4 – – Yes
112 Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences 0.5 0th Q4 ESCI – Yes

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