Journal profile · Psychology
Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology
ISSN 0887-6177 · eISSN 1873-5843 · Elsevier BV · ENGLAND · Bimonthly · Founded 1986
Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology: CAS Zone 4 · Psychology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.47; hybrid open access; APC about USD 4,823; median 128 days to acceptance (103 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: fairly easy; 484 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology is published by Elsevier BV and is in Zone 4 of Psychology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Traumatic Brain Injury Research, Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, together about 42.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Cognitive Neuroscience. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The journal publishes original contributions dealing with science and practice of brain-behavior relationships from infancy to older adulthood. These include topics such as: Assessment and rehabilitation of disorders arising out of dysfunction of the central nervous system. Differential diagnosis. Consultation and interface with other health care and psychological disciplines. Lifespan development. Medicolegal and forensic issues. Factors that promote prevention, resilience and overall brain health. Evidence of clinical practice strategies that improve quality of life and other real-world outcomes. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology will also consider manuscripts involving the established principles of the profession of neuropsychology, including: Delivery and evaluation of services. Ethical and legal issues. New approaches to education and training. Preference will be given to empirical reports and systematic or scoping reviews. Brief Reports can be submitted for studies that are narrower in scope. Case studies will be considered if they clearly provide new insights into brain-behavior relationships with the condition at hand. Commentaries on published articles may also be considered. At the discretion of the editor, rebuttals to commentaries may be invited. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology is published 8 times a year. Journal metrics Citation metrics Clarivate 2025 Impact Factor 2.5 2025 5 Year Impact Factor 2.8 Psychology, Clinical (Rank by Impact Factor) 71/184 Psychology (Rank by Impact Factor) 42/93 2025 Cited Half-Life 11.5 years 2025 Immediacy Index 0.4 2025 Eigenfactor Score 0.00333 2025 Article Influence Score 0.735 Scopus 2025 CiteScore 3.8 Clinical Psychology (Rank by CiteScore) 115/314 Psychiatry And Mental Health (Rank by CiteScore) 252/580 Neuropsychology And Physiological Psychology (Rank by CiteScore) 34/77 2025 Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 0.923 Readership 2025 Full Text Usage 752,398 Peer Review and Production 2025 Median days from submission to first decision 29 days 2025 Median days from submission to final decision 55 days About metrics Disclaimer Statements of fact and opinion in the articles in Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology are those of the respective authors and contributors and not of the Journal, , or Oxford University Press, unless otherwise expressly indicated. Neither Oxford University Press, , nor the Journal make any representation, express or implied, in respect of the accuracy of the material in t
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Psychology
Editor-in-chief Jacobus DondersPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 37, Canada 3, Taiwan, China 2, Australia 2, Netherlands 1 (47 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Traumatic Brain Injury ResearchMedicine23.1%
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment ResearchMedicine12.6%
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity DisorderMedicine7%
- Neurobiology of Language and BilingualismNeuroscience5%
- Cognitive Functions and MemoryPsychology4.6%
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular DisturbancesMedicine4.2%
- Educational and Psychological AssessmentsPsychology4.1%
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesNeuroscience3.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Psychology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychology, Clinical | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Psychology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychology, Clinical | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychology | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Psychology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychology, Clinical | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIESSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 2.47LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.8Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.8LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 3.8Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.65LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.92LetPub ·
- h-index
- 87LetPub ·
- h-index
- 152OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 2,229OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.77OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 8%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 20.99%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 116LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 752,398Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 13,436 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 141 | 65 | 11 |
| 2025 | 484 | 112 | 154 |
| 2024 | 498 | 61 | 695 |
| 2023 | 566 | 66 | 734 |
| 2022 | 369 | 329 | 1,153 |
| 2021 | 347 | 282 | 1,225 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
128 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 90 days – 178 days
- Acceptance to online
- —
- Submission to online
- —
- Sample
- 103 articles with submission and acceptance dates (307 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- 6–12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- Fairly easyLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 29 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to final decision 2025
- 55 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 4,823 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Page charges
- Charged; see the journal's website for the amount
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare6 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 250 words
- Keywords
- ≤ 6
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 2,500 words
- Reference style
- APA
- Suggested reviewers
- Required
- Not considered
- author-suggested reviewers
Article types accepted5
- brief empirical reportBrief empirical reportLength not stated
- case reportThe following categories of article are considered for publication in Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology: Original empirical article Brief empirical report Li…Length not stated
- commentaryThe following categories of article are considered for publication in Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology: Original empirical article Brief empirical report Li…Length not stated
- literature reviewThe following categories of article are considered for publication in Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology: Original empirical article Brief empirical report Li…Length not stated
- original empirical articleOriginal empirical articleLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints, Self-archiving, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Authorship
Authorship is limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the design and execution of the work described. Any contributors whose participation does not meet the criteria for authorship should be acknowledged but not listed as an author. The Journal will contact all listed authors at the point of submission to confirm their role. For a detailed definition of authorship, please see …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Disclosure of potential conflicts of interest
Authors The Journal requires all authors to disclose any potential conflict of interest at the point of submission. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to ensure that conflicts of interest of all authors are declared to the Journal. A conflict of interest exists when the position, activities, or relationships of an individual, whether direct or indirect, financial or non-financial…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Availability of data and materials
Data availability statement required Model summary
Where ethically feasible, the Journal strongly encourages authors to make all data and software code on which the conclusions of the paper rely available to readers. Authors are required to include a data availability statement in their paper. When data and software underlying the research article are available in an online source, authors should include a full citation in their reference list. Fo…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Misconduct
Authors should observe high standards with respect to research integrity and publication ethics as set out by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Falsification or fabrication of data including inappropriate image manipulation, plagiarism, including duplicate publication of the author's own work without proper citation, and misappropriation of work are all unacceptable practices. Allegation…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright
Standard or open access license Model summary
The Journal offers the option of publishing under either a non-open access (standard) license or an open access (Creative Commons) license.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access charges
Please see the details of open access licenses and charges. If you select an open access license, you must pay the open access charge or request to use an institutional agreement to pay the open access charge through our licensing and payment portal, SciPris. Please note that prices are subject to change. All stated charges are exclusive of any applicable value added tax, goods and services tax an…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review process
Double-anonymized peer review Model summary
The Journal conducts double-anonymized peer review, meaning that the identities of the authors are hidden from reviewers, and the reviewers’ identities are hidden from the authors. The editors know the identity of both the reviewers and the authors. Once a submitted manuscript passes initial assessment by the Journal’s Editor-in-Chief, it will then be passed to a handling editor, who will oversee …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
Preprints allowed Model summary
As an author, you retain the right to make an Author’s Original Version (preprint) available through various channels and this does not prevent submission to the Journal. If accepted, you are required to update the status of any preprint, including adding your published paper’s DOI. For full details on allowed channels and updating your preprint, please see our Author self-archiving policy.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Self-archiving Self-archiving
Self-archiving refers to posting a copy of your work on a publicly accessible website or repository. Under certain circumstances, you may self-archive versions of your work on your own webpages, on institutional webpages, and in other repositories. For information about the Journal's policy, and to learn which version(s) of your paper are acceptable for self-archiving, please see our Author self-a…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Reporting guidelines
Responsible reporting of research studies, which includes a complete, transparent, and accurate account of what was done and what was found during a research study, is an integral part of good research and publication practice and not an optional extra. The Journal supports initiatives aimed at improving the reporting of health research. To accomplish this, we are asking authors to use the followi…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Bimonthly
- Founded
- 1986
- ISSN
- 0887-6177
- Electronic ISSN
- 1873-5843
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 41, Issue 7 (October 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology
What CAS zone is Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology is in Zone 4 of Psychology, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Psychology / Psychology, Clinical. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Psychology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.47; CiteScore 3.8, h-index 152.
How long does peer review take at Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology?
Based on the dates recorded on 103 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 128 days (interquartile range 90–178 days); authors report an average review time of 6–12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Fairly easy”. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 250 words; Keywords: ≤ 6; Manuscript length: ≤ 2,500 words; Reference style: APA; Suggested reviewers: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology based?
Of the 47 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (37), Canada (3) and Taiwan, China (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology is indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Is Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology open access, and what is the APC?
Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 4,823.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .