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Cognition
Psychology and social sciences
Among the 50 psychology and social sciences journals in this index it has the 20th highest h-index and the 32nd 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 1 058 papers since 2023 with at least one author in each country.
| Country | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| United States | 40% |
| United Kingdom | 24% |
| Germany | 13% |
| Canada | 8% |
| China | 7% |
What it publishes
Mix of article types:
| Type | Share |
|---|---|
| Research articles | 93% |
Main subject areas of those papers:
| Subject area | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| Visual perception and processing mechanisms | 8% |
| Child and Animal Learning Development | 7% |
| Memory Processes and Influences | 7% |
| Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics | 7% |
| Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism | 5% |
| Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment | 5% |
Most cited papers since 2023
- The illusory truth effect leads to the spread of misinformation (2023, 82 citations)
- Profiles of animal consciousness: A species-sensitive, two-tier account to quality and distribution (2023, 78 citations)
- A predictive coding model of the N400 (2024, 60 citations)
- Age-related decreases in global metacognition are independent of local metacognition and task performance (2023, 57 citations)
- Cognitive offloading is value-based decision making: Modelling cognitive effort and the expected value of memory (2024, 54 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 0010-0277):
- Scimago (SJR and quartile): what quartiles mean
- Norwegian register (level 1 or 2): national lists explained
- Finnish Publication Forum (JUFO level 0 to 3)
Similar journals
- Child Development
- Annual Review of Psychology
- Developmental Psychology
- Journal of Neuroscience
- Psychological Bulletin
- Journal of Educational Psychology
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