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Topics in Cognitive Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.6), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell.
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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Cost to publish: About US$3,470 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 30 / 1221 | 97th | Q1 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 6 / 169 | 96th | Q1 |
| Cognitive Neuroscience | 18 / 129 | 86th | Q1 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 120 / 570 | 79th | Q1 |
| Human-Computer Interaction | 55 / 196 | 72nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.6.
Topics in Cognitive Science is Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 30 of 1221), Q1 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 6 of 169) and Q1 in Cognitive Neuroscience (rank 18 of 129), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Topics in Cognitive Science is indexed in the 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 8.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.193, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 84.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,470 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.
Topics in Cognitive Science is published by Wiley-Blackwell. Its print ISSN is 1756-8757 and its online ISSN is 1756-8765.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Topics in Cognitive Science has an h-index of 106 and a 2-year mean of 2.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #83 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Topics in Cognitive Science published 56 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 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 93 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (32.8%), United Kingdom (9.1%) and Canada (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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