Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Key facts

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience is a leading journal in its field, publishing rigorously peer-reviewed research that advances our understanding of the brain mechanisms supporting cognitive and social behavior in humans, in both healthy and diseased states.

Specialty Chief Editors Hauke R. Heekeren at the Freie Universität Berlin and Srikantan S. Nagarajan at the University of California, San Francisco are supported by an outstanding Editorial Board of international researchers. This multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics, clinicians and the public worldwide.

Last update: June 2017

Impact Factor

3.209

Citations (Scopus total)

38,948

Articles published (total)

4,428

Articles published (cumulative per year)

Article views & downloads (total)

23,558,489

Editors (total)

1,357

Top Institutions

Editors

UCL - University College London
The Max Planck Society
Harvard University
University of California San Francisco
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Sapienza University of Rome
University of California, San Diego
University of California, Davis
National Institutes of Health
Stanford University

Editors’ geographical locations

9%

Asia

52%

Europe

34%

North
America

3%

Oceania

3%

South
America

Authors (total)

18,415

Top Institutions

Authors

Authors’ geographical locations

14%

Asia

49%

Europe

31%

North
America

3%

Oceania

2%

South
America

News mentions of articles (total)

1,769

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Twitter mentions of articles (total)

39,077

Journal Citations

With an Impact Factor of 3.209, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience is the 1st most cited Psychology journal in the world. It is also the 8th most cited Neurosciences journal in the world.

The results are based on the 2016 Journal Citation Reports, released in 2017 by Clarivate Analytics (f.k.a.Thomson Reuters), for citations in 2016 of articles published in 2014-2015. The 2016 JCR Psychology category included 77 journals overall, and 2 open-access journals. The Neurosciences category included 259 journals overall, and 37 open-access journals. Read the full analysis here.

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

IF 3.209
Most cited journals in Psychology

Journals

Citations
Most cited journals in Neurosciences

Journals

Citations

Research topics

Spotlighting research and maximizing impact

A Frontiers Research Topic is a collection of peer-reviewed articles published around a specialized theme of cutting-edge research. It unites the world’s leading experts around a topic, stimulating dialogue and collaboration and accelerating science.

Research Topics provide a highly visible channel for collaborative research – disseminated through our customised Open Science platform – enhancing both the readership and the citation of the articles.

Discover more Research Topics here.

16,438,896

Research Topics
views & downloads (total)

Contributing authors (total)

12,539

Research Topics with eBooks (total)

83