LibGuides: Neurosciences: High impact journals

High impact journals

The following list of journals are those with the highest Journal Impact Factor (JIF)* in the NEUROSCIENCES category in the 2023 edition of Journal Citation Reports (JCR).

1.	Nature reviews. Neuroscience
2.	Nature human behaviour
3.	Nature neuroscience
4.	Nature aging
5.	Trends in cognitive sciences
6.	Behavioral and brain sciences
7.	Molecular neurodegeneration
8.	Neuron
9.	Trends in neurosciences
10.	Annual review of neuroscience

*The JIF is the average number of times articles from the journal published in the past two years have been cited in the JCR year. Please note that JIF is one metric for assessing the quality of research journals but not the only one.

Note: these results are based on data from the Web of Science Core collection only. For an in-depth explanation on its calculation and on Clarivate Journal Citation Reports please refer to this page.