Behavioral and Brain Sciences

ISSN 0140-525x · Cambridge University Press · United Kingdom · active 1978–2026

Metrics

Scimago quartile (2025)
Q3
Cites per paper (2y)
1.0
SJR
0.6
h-index
303

“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric (how the two differ). Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline. What the other figures mean: journal quartile, SJR, h-index and article processing charge.

Data as of 15 November 2026 (venue index build).

Scimago Journal Rank 2025

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Behavioral and Brain Sciences is Q3 in all 3 of its subject categories.

Scimago 2025 quartile and rank of Behavioral and Brain Sciences in each subject category
Subject categoryQuartileRank in category
Neuropsychology and Physiological PsychologyQ3#40 of 78
Behavioral NeuroscienceQ3#60 of 94
PhysiologyQ3#120 of 198
Cites per document (2 years, Scopus)
1.57
Documents indexed in 2025 (Scopus)
222

OpenAlex counts about 1.0 citations per paper over two years; Scopus, through Scimago, counts 1.57 per document. The two databases index different journals, documents and citations, so the figures differ. Neither is a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor.

The quartile is the one Scimago prints for each category. Rank is the journal's position by SJR among the journals Scimago lists in that category (#1 is the highest); “—” means we hold no rank consistent with that quartile. The document count is what Scopus indexed that year, which can be lower than a journal's full output. Source: SCImago Journal Rank 2025 edition, from Scopus data (scimagojr.com, CC BY-NC).

Behavioral and Brain Sciences is Q3 in all 3 of its Scimago subject categories (2025 edition; best category Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology: Q3, #40 of 78), with SJR 0.6 (Scimago) and an h-index of 303 (OpenAlex). Listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed.

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Indexing & access

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Scope

philosophytheoreticalexperimentalcognitivepsychologyneuralbehavioralneuroscienceevolutionaryhumanbehaviorchild

Frequently asked

Is Behavioral and Brain Sciences a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag Behavioral and Brain Sciences. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, which is a positive signal.

Is Behavioral and Brain Sciences indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, Behavioral and Brain Sciences appears in: Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

What is the impact factor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences?

Papers in Behavioral and Brain Sciences are cited about 1.0 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q3, with an h-index of 303. Those are the open equivalents: the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor is a proprietary metric we neither compute nor license, so we show the two-year citation rate and Scimago quartile instead — they answer the same question of how heavily the journal is cited. A citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

What Scimago quartile is Behavioral and Brain Sciences (Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4)?

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Behavioral and Brain Sciences is Q3 in all 3 of its subject categories. By category: Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology: Q3, #40 of 78; Behavioral Neuroscience: Q3, #60 of 94; Physiology: Q3, #120 of 198. Quartiles split the journals in a subject category into four equal groups by SJR, so Q1 is the most-cited quarter and Q4 the least; Behavioral and Brain Sciences is cited about 1.0 times per paper over two years, with an h-index of 303.

What is the Web of Science (JCR) quartile of Behavioral and Brain Sciences?

The Web of Science quartile comes from Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a proprietary product we neither license nor compute — so we cannot state a JCR quartile for Behavioral and Brain Sciences. The open equivalent is its Scimago quartile, Q3, derived from Scopus citation data. Because JCR ranks against Web of Science and Scimago against Scopus, the two can differ, so check Clarivate's site directly if you need the JCR quartile specifically.

Is Behavioral and Brain Sciences open access?

Our index records its access status as "subscription". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.

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