Journal profile
Brain Science Advances
ISSN 2096-5958 · SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
Brain Science Advances: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 10 weeks (community reports); 14 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Brain Science Advances is published by SAGE Publishing. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research and Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology, together about 27.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Cognitive Neuroscience. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Brain Science Advances (BSA) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal which publishes original research articles, review articles and case reports on all aspects of brain sciences with a focus on molecular and cellular neuroscience, clinical neuroscience, and neural engineering across the Asia-Pacific region. It is published quarterly by Tsinghua … | View full journal description This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editor-in-chief Dan ZhangPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 23 in mainland China (about 51%); most named Mainland China 23, United States 4, Japan 2, Hong Kong, China 1, Taiwan, China 1 (45 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- EEG and Brain-Computer InterfacesNeuroscience12%
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment ResearchMedicine8%
- Gaze Tracking and Assistive TechnologyComputer Science7.3%
- Functional Brain Connectivity StudiesNeuroscience5.8%
- Emotion and Mood RecognitionPsychology5.8%
- Neurological disorders and treatmentsMedicine5.8%
- Alzheimer's disease research and treatmentsMedicine4.7%
- Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology ResearchNeuroscience4.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Journal indexing and metricsPublisher website
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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
- h-index
- 20OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 44OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.63OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 177 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 19 | 19 | 185 |
| 2025 | 14 | 14 | 298 |
| 2024 | 10 | 10 | 301 |
| 2023 | 23 | 23 | 281 |
| 2022 | 23 | 23 | 216 |
| 2021 | 23 | 23 | 167 |
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
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 10 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 10 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
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
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY, CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 0 | — | — | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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 prepare4 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 300 words
- Reference style
- Vancouver
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted20, with length limits
- case reportView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Brain Science Advances offers a range of article types for authors to contribute to the brain scie…main text ≤ 300 words · abstract ≤ 300 words
- clinical guidelineClinical Guideline This category is for systematically developed, evidence-based/evidence-informed statements and recommendations.Length not stated
- editorialView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Brain Science Advances offers a range of article types for authors to contribute to the brain scie…Length not stated
- editorial (invited only)Editorial (Invited Only) This category is opinion or perspective on the content of Brain Science Advances or of relevance to the field of brain science.Length not stated
- hypothesisView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Brain Science Advances offers a range of article types for authors to contribute to the brain scie…Length not stated
- letterView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Brain Science Advances offers a range of article types for authors to contribute to the brain scie…Length not stated
- letter (short communication)Letter (Short communication) This category is for concise, focused reports of original research that present particularly novel or exciting results, introduce n…Length not stated
- meta-analysisView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Brain Science Advances offers a range of article types for authors to contribute to the brain scie…main text ≤ 200 words · abstract ≤ 200 words
- narrative reviewView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Brain Science Advances offers a range of article types for authors to contribute to the brain scie…Length not stated
- opinionView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Brain Science Advances offers a range of article types for authors to contribute to the brain scie…Length not stated
- original researchView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Brain Science Advances offers a range of article types for authors to contribute to the brain scie…Length not stated
- perspectiveView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Brain Science Advances offers a range of article types for authors to contribute to the brain scie…Length not stated
- protocolView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Brain Science Advances offers a range of article types for authors to contribute to the brain scie…Length not stated
- research articleView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Brain Science Advances offers a range of article types for authors to contribute to the brain scie…Length not stated
- reviewView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Brain Science Advances offers a range of article types for authors to contribute to the brain scie…main text ≤ 200 words · abstract ≤ 200 words
- review articleReview articleLength not stated
- short communicationView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Brain Science Advances offers a range of article types for authors to contribute to the brain scie…Length not stated
- study protocolStudy Protocol This category is for proposed or ongoing research, and should provide a detailed account of the hypothesis, rationale and methodology of the stud…Length not stated
- systematic reviewView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Brain Science Advances offers a range of article types for authors to contribute to the brain scie…Length not stated
- technical reportTechnical Report This category is for Extensions or updates to previously published research, reporting additional controls; projects that did not yield publish…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Authorship
Please view our authorship policies, which includes information on criteria for authorship, who should be the corresponding author and more. Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
Data sharing required Model summary
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. As a condition of publication authors are required to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data availability statement. This sho…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
COPE member Model summary
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
Online-only journal Model summary
Brain Science Advances is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. All accepted articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication, are published under a Creative Commons license, and hosted online in perpetuity. Publication costs of the journal are covered by the collection of article processing charges which are paid by Tsinghua University Press thus authors don’t need to pay a…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Peer review model: single anonymized Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency:Single Anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk reject…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
Preprint policy Model summary
The journal does not accept submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer review…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
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
- SAGE Publishing
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2096-5958
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Brain Science Advances
How long does peer review take at Brain Science Advances?
Authors report an average review time of about 10 weeks. 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 Brain Science Advances?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 300 words; Reference style: Vancouver; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Cover letter: 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 Brain Science Advances based?
Of the 45 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 23 (about 51%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Mainland China (23), United States (4) and Japan (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Brain Science Advances?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Brain Science Advances is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Brain Science Advances open access, and what is the APC?
Brain Science Advances is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, 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: .