Neuroscience academic journals
750 Neuroscience journals with recent activity, ranked by the Tutoeris Impact Quartile, an independent metric on OpenAlex open data. It is not the Scopus quartile, though it matches in most cases.
Q1 188 · highest impact Q2 188 · high-medium impact Q3 187 · medium-low impact Q4 187 · lower impact
The top 50 by impact
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| Journal | Indicator | Country | Access | Cites/art. | 2-yr imp. | H | APC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nature reviews. Neuroscience ↗ ISSN 1471-003X · est. 1969 | high Q1 | United Kingdom | — | 24.7 | 14.1 | 571 | — |
| Annual Review of Neuroscience ↗ ISSN 0147-006X · est. 1978 | high Q1 | United States | — | 28.7 | 12.3 | 375 | — |
| Trends in Cognitive Sciences ↗ ISSN 1364-6613 · est. 1985 | high Q1 | United Kingdom | — | 17.4 | 9.5 | 460 | $6,830 |
| Neuron ↗ ISSN 0896-6273 · est. 1885 | high Q1 | United States | — | 25 | 12.5 | 697 | $9,080 |
| Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews ↗ ISSN 0149-7634 · est. 1978 | high Q1 | United States | — | 14.5 | 7.3 | 375 | $4,720 |
| PLoS Biology ↗ ISSN 1544-9173 · est. 1980 | high Q1 | United States | Open DOAJ | 12.4 | 6.5 | 388 | $5,300 |
| Nature Neuroscience ↗ ISSN 1097-6256 · est. 1870 | high Q1 | United States | — | 28 | 16.5 | 602 | $11,690 |
| Trends in Neurosciences ↗ ISSN 0166-2236 · est. 1937 | high Q1 | United Kingdom | — | 17.3 | 7 | 440 | $6,830 |
| Babylonian Journal of Machine Learning ↗ ISSN 3006-5429 · est. 2023 | high Q1 | — | Open | 29.1 | 35.2 | 16 | — |
| Journal of Neuroinflammation ↗ ISSN 1742-2094 · est. 1968 | high Q1 | United Kingdom | Open DOAJ | 19.3 | 9.4 | 215 | $2,931 |
| Current Opinion in Neurobiology ↗ ISSN 0959-4388 · est. 1991 | high Q1 | United Kingdom | — | 10.5 | 4.6 | 308 | $4,480 |
| Psychological Science ↗ ISSN 0956-7976 · est. 1947 | high Q1 | United States | — | 10 | 5.6 | 415 | — |
| IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering ↗ ISSN 1534-4320 · est. 2001 | high Q1 | United States | Open DOAJ | 11 | 5.3 | 189 | — |
| Brain ↗ ISSN 0006-8950 · est. 1878 | high Q1 | United Kingdom | — | 15.9 | 7.7 | 502 | $4,486 |
| Nature Human Behaviour ↗ ISSN 2397-3374 · est. 1968 | high Q1 | United Kingdom | — | 22.3 | 12.8 | 177 | $11,690 |
| Neuropsychopharmacology ↗ ISSN 0893-133X · est. 1979 | high Q1 | United States | — | 9.7 | 4.5 | 305 | $4,790 |
| Molecular Autism ↗ ISSN 2040-2392 · est. 2000 | high Q1 | United Kingdom | Open DOAJ | 10.2 | 5.3 | 114 | $2,808 |
| Neurobiology of Disease ↗ ISSN 0969-9961 · est. 1985 | high Q1 | United States | Open DOAJ | 9.8 | 4.6 | 225 | $2,500 |
| Neurotherapeutics ↗ ISSN 1878-7479 · est. 1996 | high Q1 | United States | Open DOAJ | 9.4 | 5.3 | 156 | $4,990 |
| Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology ↗ ISSN 1557-1890 · est. 2006 | high Q1 | United States | — | 8.2 | 5.6 | 107 | $4,390 |
| Autism ↗ ISSN 1362-3613 · est. 1978 | high Q1 | United Kingdom | — | 9.8 | 5.6 | 176 | — |
| Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences ↗ ISSN 1420-682X · est. 1945 | high Q1 | Switzerland | Open DOAJ | 10.7 | 6.5 | 329 | $4,290 |
| Brain Behavior and Immunity ↗ ISSN 0889-1591 · est. 1974 | high Q1 | United States | — | 8.9 | 5.2 | 249 | $4,480 |
| Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry ↗ ISSN 0022-3050 · est. 1920 | high Q1 | United Kingdom | — | 11 | 6.1 | 337 | — |
| NeuroImage ↗ ISSN 1053-8119 · est. 1920 | high Q1 | United States | Open DOAJ | 9.7 | 3.8 | 531 | $3,450 |
| Translational Psychiatry ↗ ISSN 2158-3188 · est. 1965 | high Q1 | United States | Open DOAJ | 12.5 | 6 | 181 | $3,422 |
| Journal of Neuroscience ↗ ISSN 0270-6474 · est. 1974 | high Q1 | United States | — | 7.7 | 3.8 | 654 | — |
| Progress in Neurobiology ↗ ISSN 0301-0082 · est. 1973 | high Q1 | United Kingdom | — | 7.7 | 3.9 | 323 | $5,150 |
| Nature Mental Health ↗ ISSN 2731-6076 · est. 2023 | high Q1 | — | — | 10.9 | 5.9 | 37 | — |
| Brain Plasticity ↗ ISSN 2213-6304 · est. 2015 | high Q1 | Netherlands | Open | 7.9 | 7.8 | 40 | — |
| Pharmacological Research ↗ ISSN 1043-6618 · est. 1945 | high Q1 | United Kingdom | Open DOAJ | 16.5 | 10.1 | 218 | $3,500 |
| Applied Data Science and Analysis ↗ ISSN 3005-317X · est. 2023 | high Q1 | — | Open | 10.4 | 8.3 | 14 | — |
| Journal of Applied Biomedicine ↗ ISSN 0208-5216 · est. 2011 | high Q1 | Poland | — | 8.3 | 4.5 | 80 | $2,750 |
| Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience ↗ ISSN 1878-9293 · est. 1990 | high Q1 | Netherlands | Open DOAJ | 8.3 | 4.8 | 128 | $2,750 |
| Journal of Theory and Practice of Engineering Science ↗ ISSN 2790-1505 · est. 2021 | high Q1 | — | — | 12 | 11.2 | 18 | — |
| Bioelectronic Medicine ↗ ISSN 2332-8886 · est. 2014 | high Q1 | United Kingdom | Open DOAJ | 13.2 | 7.1 | 36 | $1,925 |
| Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology ↗ ISSN 0272-4340 · est. 1981 | high Q1 | United States | — | 12.3 | 5 | 127 | $4,390 |
| Biomedical Signal Processing and Control ↗ ISSN 1746-8094 · est. 1992 | high Q1 | United Kingdom | — | 9.8 | 4.5 | 150 | $2,420 |
| Journal of Psychopharmacology ↗ ISSN 0269-8811 · est. 1987 | high Q1 | United Kingdom | — | 8.2 | 4 | 169 | — |
| Glia ↗ ISSN 0894-1491 · est. 1953 | high Q1 | United States | — | 7.9 | 4.2 | 233 | $4,940 |
| Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience ↗ ISSN 1044-7431 · est. 1990 | high Q1 | United States | — | 7 | 3.7 | 173 | $3,570 |
| Cerebral Cortex ↗ ISSN 1047-3211 · est. 1991 | high Q1 | United States | — | 6.3 | 3.8 | 349 | $4,798 |
| Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences ↗ ISSN 2352-1546 · est. 2000 | high Q1 | Netherlands | — | 6.3 | 5.3 | 118 | $3,840 |
| Brain Informatics ↗ ISSN 2198-4018 · est. 1999 | high Q1 | Germany | Open DOAJ | 18.7 | 9.6 | 48 | $969 |
| Communications Biology ↗ ISSN 2399-3642 · est. 1973 | high Q1 | United Kingdom | Open DOAJ | 10.1 | 5.6 | 142 | $2,890 |
| Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience ↗ ISSN 1662-5102 · est. 1963 | high Q1 | Switzerland | Open DOAJ | 8.3 | 4.7 | 176 | $2,950 |
| Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience ↗ ISSN 1662-5099 · est. 1971 | high Q1 | Switzerland | Open DOAJ | 8.9 | 4.6 | 143 | $2,950 |
| Journal of Neurochemistry ↗ ISSN 0022-3042 · est. 1938 | high Q1 | United Kingdom | — | 6.7 | 3.6 | 349 | $4,840 |
| IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics ↗ ISSN 2168-2194 · est. 1961 | high Q1 | United States | — | 9.1 | 4.8 | 163 | — |
| PLoS Computational Biology ↗ ISSN 1553-734X · est. 1911 | high Q1 | United States | Open DOAJ | 7.7 | 4.1 | 286 | $2,655 |
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