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Neuroscientist is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Inc..
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ISSN 1073-8584Verify ISSN ↗1089-4098Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$4,400 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neurology (clinical) | 35 / 403 | 91st | Q1 |
| Neuroscience (all) | 15 / 112 | 87th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.3.
Neuroscientist is Q1 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 35 of 403) and Q1 in Neuroscience (all) (rank 15 of 112), by CiteScore 2025.
Neuroscientist 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 10.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.361, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 155.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,400 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.
Neuroscientist is published by SAGE Publications Inc. Its print ISSN is 1073-8584 and its online ISSN is 1089-4098.
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.
Neuroscientist has an h-index of 177 and a 2-year mean of 2.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #90 of 403 Scopus journals in Neurology (clinical).
Neuroscientist published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 81. 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 57 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (23.2%), China (14%) and United Kingdom (7.9%).
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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