The Journal of Neuroscience

The Journal of Neuroscience

Discipline	Neuroscience
Language	English
Edited  by	Sabine Kastner
Publication details
History	1981–present
Publisher	Society for Neuroscience  (United States)
Frequency	Weekly
Impact factor	3.9 (2024)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Neurosci.
Indexing CODEN (alt  · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR  · NLM (alt) · Scopus  · W&L
CODEN	JNRSDS
ISSN	0270-6474  (print) 1529-2401  (web)
LCCN	81640907
OCLC  no.	476317794
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The Journal of Neuroscience is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Society for Neuroscience. It covers empirical research on all aspects of neuroscience. Its editor-in-chief is Sabine Kastner (Princeton University), who succeeded Marina Picciotto (Yale University) in 2024. According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a 2024 impact factor of 3.9. ^[1]

History

The journal was established in 1981 and issues appeared monthly; as its popularity grew it switched to a biweekly schedule in 1996 and then to a weekly in July 2003.

Themes

Main themes

Articles appear within one of the following five sections of the journal:

• Cellular/Molecular
• Development/Plasticity/Repair
• Systems/Circuits
• Behavioral/Cognitive
• Neurobiology of Disease

The journal has revised its sections over the years. In 2004, it added the Neurobiology of Disease section due to the growing number of papers on this subject. In January 2013, the journal split the section Behavioral/Systems/Cognitive into two sections, Systems/Circuits and Behavioral/Cognitive, in order to make the sections of the journal approximately the same in size. ^[2]

Features

In addition, some issues of the journal contain articles in the following sections:

• Brief Communications
• Journal Club (brief reviews of articles that appeared in the Journal; written by graduate students or postdoctoral fellows; first published in September 2005)

See also

• Behavioral neuroscience

References

1. "Journal of Neuroscience". 2024 Journal Citation Reports (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2025 – via Web of Science.
2. Maunsell, John (2013). "New Journal Sections". The Journal of Neuroscience. 33 (1): 1. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5529-12.2012 . PMC   6618639 .

External links

• Official website