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Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Biology and life sciences
Among the 50 biology and life sciences journals in this index it has the 17th highest h-index and the 20th highest two-year mean citedness. Both are explained under how venues are ranked.
Where its authors come from
Share of the 421 papers since 2023 with at least one author in each country.
| Country | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| United States | 33% |
| United Kingdom | 11% |
| Germany | 10% |
| Canada | 6% |
| Netherlands | 4% |
What it publishes
Mix of article types:
| Type | Share |
|---|---|
| Research articles | 56% |
| Reviews | 40% |
| Letters | 3% |
Main subject areas of those papers:
| Subject area | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| Memory and Neural Mechanisms | 10% |
| Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research | 6% |
| Neural dynamics and brain function | 6% |
| Functional Brain Connectivity Studies | 4% |
| Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism | 4% |
| Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms | 4% |
Most cited papers since 2023
- The impact of the human thalamus on brain-wide information processing (2023, 306 citations)
- The language network as a natural kind within the broader landscape of the human brain (2024, 294 citations)
- Brain network communication: concepts, models and applications (2023, 286 citations)
- Structure–function coupling in macroscale human brain networks (2024, 244 citations)
- The neuroconnectionist research programme (2023, 232 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 1471-003X):
- 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
- Neuron
- Nature Neuroscience
- Journal of Neuroscience
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Brain
- Cognition
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