Neuroscience (journal)

Neuroscience is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of neuroscience. It was established in 1976 with P.G. Kostyuk, Rodolfo Llinás, and A.D. Smith as founding editors-in-chief and originally published by Pergamon Press.^[1][2] The current editor-in-chief is Juan Lerma Gómez (Spanish National Research Council). The journal is published by Elsevier on behalf of the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO).

Neuroscience

Discipline	Neuroscience
Language	English
Edited by	J. Lerma
Publication details
History	1976–present
Publisher	Elsevier on behalf of the International Brain Research Organization
Frequency	28/year
Open access	Hybrid
Impact factor	2.7 (2024)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Neuroscience
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	NRSCDN
ISSN	0306-4522 (print) 1873-7544 (web)
LCCN	76648178
OCLC no.	780563171
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

The journal continues the IBRO News section formerly published in Brain Research.^[1]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• BIOSIS Previews^[3]
• Current Contents/Life Sciences^[3]
• Elsevier Biobase
• Chemical Abstracts Service^[4]
• Embase^[5]
• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed^[6]
• PASCAL
• Science Citation Index^[3]
• Scopus^[7]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, Neuroscience has a 2024 impact factor of 2.7.^[8]

Notable articles

As of 2018^[update], the following articles are the most downloaded according to the publisher's data:^[9]

• Keeler, J.F.; Pretsell, D.O.; Robbins, T.W. (2014). "Functional implications of dopamine D1 vs. D2 receptors: A 'prepare and select' model of the striatal direct vs. indirect pathways". Neuroscience. 282: 156–175. doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.07.021. PMID 25062777.
• Hernández SE (2018). "Gray Matter and Functional Connectivity in Anterior Cingulate Cortex are Associated with the State of Mental Silence During Sahaja Yoga Meditation". Neuroscience. 371: 395–406. doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.12.017. hdl:10234/175002. PMID 29275207.
• Humpel, C (2015). "Organotypic brain slice cultures: A review". Neuroscience. 305: 86–98. doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.07.086. PMC 4699268. PMID 26254240.
• Dalley, J (2012). "Dopamine, serotonin and impulsivity" (PDF). Neuroscience. 215: 42–58. doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.03.065. PMID 22542672.
• Zorina-Lichtenwalter, K (2016). "Genetic predictors of human chronic pain conditions". Neuroscience. 338: 36–62. doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2016.04.041. PMID 27143481.