Cortex (journal)

Cortex is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier. It covers studies on the psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, neuropsychology, and neurology of the cerebral cortex. The journal was established in 1964 by Ennio De Renzi.^[1] Until recently, the co-editors-in-chief were Sergio Della Sala (University of Edinburgh and Jordan Grafman (Northwestern University). Since 2025, it has been edited by Editor-in-Chief Robert McIntosh (University of Edinburgh) and Deputy Editor D. Samuel Schwarzkopf (University of Auckland). ^[2]

Cortex

Discipline	Psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, neuropsychology, neurology
Language	English
Edited by	Robert McIntosh, D. Samuel Schwarzkopf
Publication details
History	1964–present
Publisher	Elsevier
Frequency	Monthly
Open access	Hybrid
Impact factor	3.6 (2022)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Cortex
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0010-9452
LCCN	sn84006914
OCLC no.	784284125
Links
Journal homepage Online archive

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Biological Abstracts^[3]
• BIOSIS Previews^[3]
• CINAHL^[4]
• Current Contents/Life Sciences^[3]
• Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences^[3]
• Embase^[5]
• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed^[6]
• PASCAL^[7]
• ProQuest databases^[7]
• PsycINFO^[8]
• Science Citation Index Expanded^[3]
• Scopus^[9]
• Social Sciences Citation Index^[3]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 3.6.^[10]