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Brain
Medicine and clinical research
Among the 50 medicine and clinical research journals in this index it has the 17th highest h-index and the 11th highest two-year mean citedness. Both are explained under how venues are ranked.
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Where its authors come from
Share of the 1 693 papers since 2023 with at least one author in each country.
| Country | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| United States | 43% |
| United Kingdom | 31% |
| Germany | 18% |
| Italy | 13% |
| France | 13% |
What it publishes
Mix of article types:
| Type | Share |
|---|---|
| Research articles | 95% |
| Letters | 2% |
Main subject areas of those papers:
| Subject area | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments | 8% |
| Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research | 8% |
| Epilepsy research and treatment | 7% |
| Alzheimer's disease research and treatments | 6% |
| Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies | 5% |
| Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research | 5% |
Most cited papers since 2023
- Amyloid-related imaging abnormalities (ARIA): radiological, biological and clinical characteristics (2023, 405 citations)
- The functional role of the precuneus (2023, 319 citations)
- The amyloid cascade hypothesis: an updated critical review (2023, 285 citations)
- Potential drug targets for multiple sclerosis identified through Mendelian randomization analysis (2023, 267 citations)
- Microbiota from Alzheimer’s patients induce deficits in cognition and hippocampal neurogenesis (2023, 231 citations)
Official rankings
Many evaluations use a national or commercial list rather than raw citation counts. We don't reproduce those lists here; check the journal on each one directly (search for ISSN 0006-8950):
- Scimago (SJR and quartile): what quartiles mean
- Norwegian register (level 1 or 2): national lists explained
- Finnish Publication Forum (JUFO level 0 to 3)
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