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Open Mind is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by MIT Press.
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ISSN 2470-2986Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: MIT Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 200 / 1221 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 198 / 380 | 48th | Q3 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 102 / 169 | 39th | Q3 |
| Cognitive Neuroscience | 78 / 129 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.8.
Open Mind is Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 200 of 1221), Q3 in Developmental and Educational Psychology (rank 198 of 380) and Q3 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 102 of 169), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Open Mind 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 2.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.314, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 15.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$950 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.
Open Mind is published by MIT Press. Its ISSN is 2470-2986.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Open Mind has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 2.71 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #76 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Open Mind published 89 papers in 2025. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (48.1%), Germany (9.9%) and United Kingdom (7.7%).
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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