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Trends in Cognitive Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 26.4), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 1364-6613Verify ISSN ↗1879-307XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$7,030 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 1 / 169 | 99th | Q1 |
| Cognitive Neuroscience | 1 / 129 | 99th | Q1 |
| Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology | 1 / 77 | 99th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1997–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 26.4.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences is Q1 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 1 of 169), Q1 in Cognitive Neuroscience (rank 1 of 129) and Q1 in Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology (rank 1 of 77), by CiteScore 2025.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences 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 26.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 4.351, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 390.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$7,030 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.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1364-6613 and its online ISSN is 1879-307X.
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 and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences has an h-index of 465 and a 2-year mean of 10.57 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 26.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 164 Scopus journals in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences published 185 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 83 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (34.8%), United Kingdom (12.3%) and Germany (9.1%).
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 1 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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