Neuroscience Letters
ISSN 0304-3940 · Elsevier BV · Ireland · active 1975–2026
Metrics
- Scimago quartile (2025)
- Q3
- Cites per paper (2y)
- 2.1
- SJR
- 0.713
- h-index
- 269
“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 1 November 2026 (venue index build).
Scimago Journal Rank 2025
In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Neuroscience Letters is Q3 in Neuroscience (miscellaneous) (#103 of 184 journals).
| Subject category | Quartile | Rank in category |
|---|---|---|
| Neuroscience (miscellaneous) | Q3 | #103 of 184 |
- Cites per document (2 years, Scopus)
- 2.34
- Documents indexed in 2025 (Scopus)
- 236
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).
Neuroscience Letters is Q3 in Neuroscience (miscellaneous) (2025 edition, #103 of 184 journals), with SJR 0.713 (Scimago) and an h-index of 269 (OpenAlex). Listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed.
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Indexing & access
- Indexed in
- ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
- Access status:
- hybrid. Where this comes from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic — confirm on the journal’s own site, especially regarding any article processing charge.
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Frequently asked
Is Neuroscience Letters a predatory journal?
Our screening does not flag Neuroscience Letters. 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 Neuroscience Letters indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?
Per our venue index, Neuroscience Letters 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 Neuroscience Letters?
Papers in Neuroscience Letters are cited about 2.1 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q3, with an h-index of 269. 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 Neuroscience Letters (Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4)?
In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Neuroscience Letters is Q3 in Neuroscience (miscellaneous) (#103 of 184 journals). 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; Neuroscience Letters is cited about 2.1 times per paper over two years, with an h-index of 269.
What is the Web of Science (JCR) quartile of Neuroscience Letters?
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 Neuroscience Letters. 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 Neuroscience Letters open access?
Our index records its access status as "hybrid". 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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