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Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6), WoS SCIE/SSCI, DOAJ. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 1749-5016Verify ISSN ↗1749-5024Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 20 / 169 | 88th | Q1 |
| Cognitive Neuroscience | 35 / 129 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience is Q1 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 20 of 169) and Q2 in Cognitive Neuroscience (rank 35 of 129), by CiteScore 2025.
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences 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, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.249, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 140.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,379 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.
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 1749-5016 and its online ISSN is 1749-5024.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience has an h-index of 167 and a 2-year mean of 3.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #19 of 164 Scopus journals in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience published 126 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 164. 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (26.1%), China (22.1%) and United Kingdom (8.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.8 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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