Question 1

What are the best journals for Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience?

Accepted Answer

From a 17,500-venue index, the highest-ranked Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience journals include Nature reviews. Neuroscience, Neuron, Molecular Psychiatry, Trends in Neurosciences, Fluids and Barriers of the CNS. The top 40 of 134 ranked venues are listed on this page; all 40 are Scimago Q1. Each shows its open-access status and indexing, and predatory venues are excluded. For a shortlist matched to your specific paper, use the Journal Finder (15 credits; free account starts with 25).

Question 2

How were these Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience journals ranked?

Accepted Answer

Journals are placed by two independent classifications, OpenAlex's and Scimago's, plus any documented corrections. A journal both place under Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience ranks ahead, within its Scimago quartile, of one only OpenAlex places there — because Scimago does not cover it, files it as Multidisciplinary, or files it under a neighbouring subject or only under a broad “(miscellaneous)” category (which counts as agreement when Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience is the journal's main OpenAlex subfield). 10 journals OpenAlex files under Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience are left out because OpenAlex's main field for them and Scimago's categories both place them in another discipline. By Scimago quartile first (Q1 → Q4, then venues without one). Within a quartile, journals both sources place under Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience come first, then venues whose main OpenAlex subfield is Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience come before those that list it second or third, and ties go to OpenAlex cites/paper over a 2-year window. A venue whose main subfield is unrelated to Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience — fewer than a quarter of the venues filed under that subfield (or fewer than five) are also filed under Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience — is listed after all the others. Cites/paper is a transparent citation rate, not a licensed Impact Factor, and journals flagged as predatory are excluded.

Question 3

Why don't all Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience journals show a quartile?

Accepted Answer

Scimago doesn't cover every journal — many strong regional and open-access venues are absent from it. We show "no Scimago quartile" for those rather than hide them; it's a coverage gap, not a quality judgement.

Question 4

How do I find the best journal for my specific Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience paper?

Accepted Answer

Paste your title and abstract into the Journal Finder — it returns a shortlist matched to your paper's topic from the same index, with acceptance-fit signals, open-access status, and predatory flags. A free account starts with 25 welcome credits; each run costs 15.

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