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Neurobiology of Language is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by MIT Press.
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ISSN 2641-4368Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: MIT Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 42 / 1221 | 96th | Q1 |
| Neurology | 39 / 201 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.8.
Neurobiology of Language is Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 42 of 1221) and Q1 in Neurology (rank 39 of 201), by CiteScore 2025.
Neurobiology of Language 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 6.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.371, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 23.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,100 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.
Neurobiology of Language is published by MIT Press. Its ISSN is 2641-4368.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Neurobiology of Language has an h-index of 36 and a 2-year mean of 2.95 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #70 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Neurobiology of Language published 47 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2015 with 95. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (35.8%), China (10.4%) and Germany (8.8%).
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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