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Visual Neuroscience is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 2.3), WoS SCIE. Published by Maximum Academic Press.
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ISSN 0952-5238Verify ISSN ↗1469-8714Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Maximum Academic Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,450 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physiology | 165 / 196 | 16th | Q4 |
| Sensory Systems | 38 / 43 | 12th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 2.3.
Visual Neuroscience is Q4 in Physiology (rank 165 of 196) and Q4 in Sensory Systems (rank 38 of 43), by CiteScore 2025.
Visual Neuroscience 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 2.3, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 16th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.116, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 92.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,450 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.
Visual Neuroscience is published by Maximum Academic Press. Its print ISSN is 0952-5238 and its online ISSN is 1469-8714.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Visual Neuroscience has an h-index of 129 and a 2-year mean of 2.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #100 of 194 Scopus journals in Physiology.
Visual Neuroscience published 26 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 28. 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 75 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (45.8%), United States (23.1%) and Germany (6.7%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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