Journal profile · Clinical Neurology
CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGIST
ISSN 1385-4046 · eISSN 1744-4144 · Taylor and Francis Ltd. · NETHERLANDS · Quarterly · Founded 1987
CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGIST: CAS Zone 3 · Psychology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.62; JCR Q2 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 158 days to acceptance (94 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: fairly easy; 147 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGIST is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. and is in Zone 3 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 Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances, together about 41.3% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Clinical Neuropsychologist (TCN) serves as the premier forum for (1) state-of-the-art clinically-relevant scientific research, (2) in-depth professional discussions of matters germane to evidence-based practice, and (3) clinical case studies in neuropsychology. Of particular interest are papers that can make definitive statements about a given topic (thereby having implications for the standards of clinical practice) and those with the potential to expand today’s clinical frontiers (e.g., introduction of a disorder that is typically not under the purview of clinical neuropsychology, yet presents with neurocognitive sequelae; introduction of new assessment or intervention tools). Research on all age groups, and on both clinical and normal populations, is considered. 1. Scientific research. TCN publishes research that is of interest to practicing clinicians, with the over-arching goal of contributing to advances in evidence-based practice. Original empirical research, meta-analyses/systematic reviews, and critical integrative reviews of clinically-relevant topics are considered. Of particular interest are studies pertaining to the following: neuropsychological, behavioral, and psychiatric manifestations of neurodevelopmental, neurodegenerative, and neuropsychiatric conditions, and acquired brain disorders brain-behavior relationships, especially if pertaining to performance on clinical neuropsychological measures, or if pertaining to a specific disorder psychometrics and/or norms of clinical instruments forensic applications professional issues (e.g., credentialing, education and training, and ethics) and practice-related surveys 2. Professional discussions. TCN publishes both invited and unsolicited papers that contribute to the journal’s over-arching goal of establishing (and raising) standards of practice. These include the following: practice guidelines, consensus statements, and position papers that guide clinicians and clinical educators invited opinions, commentaries, or discussions book reviews (solicited by the Book Review section editor) 3. Case studies. The Grand Rounds in Clinical Neuropsychology section of the journal is devoted to single case study presentations of interesting, timely, important, or unusual cases. Cases should be instructive and focus on the contributions that competent neuropsychological assessment make in terms of (a) elucidating brain-behavior relationships, (b) determining the functional status of patients, and (c) inst
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Clinical Neurology
Editor-in-chief Yana SuchyPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Traumatic Brain Injury ResearchMedicine21.9%
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment ResearchMedicine14.5%
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular DisturbancesMedicine4.9%
- Cognitive Functions and MemoryPsychology4.7%
- Psychological Testing and AssessmentPsychology4.6%
- Counseling Practices and SupervisionPsychology4.5%
- Neurobiology of Language and BilingualismNeuroscience4.1%
- Cardiac Arrest and ResuscitationMedicine3.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Psychology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Clinical Neurology | 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 3 |
| Minor | Clinical Neurology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychology | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Psychology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Clinical Neurology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychology, Clinical | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q2 · best quartile · 2025
- CiteScore Q1 · 2025
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
SCIESSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
MEDLINEEmbasePsycINFOCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography (CDAB), European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH), Exceptional Child Education Resources (ECER), Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA), Neurosciences Citation Index, Psychological Abstracts, PsycLIT, Research Alert, SciSearch, Social SciSearch, VINITI
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
- Impact factor
- 2.62LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.6Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.6Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 6.2LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 6.2Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.81LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.81Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.4LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1.4Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 70LetPub ·
- h-index
- 129OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,681OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.98OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 19.2%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 9.15%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 135LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 425,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,987 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 72 | 30 | 28 |
| 2025 | 147 | 57 | 400 |
| 2024 | 120 | 49 | 581 |
| 2023 | 82 | 33 | 687 |
| 2022 | 69 | 27 | 858 |
| 2021 | 104 | 38 | 2,184 |
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 Crossref · to
158 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 120 days – 182 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 13 days (94 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 173 days
- Sample
- 94 articles with submission and acceptance dates (247 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 ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 30%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 4 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 47 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 15 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Single 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
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)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Hybrid open access journal (Taylor & Francis Open Select). Model summary
The Clinical Neuropsychologist is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open access? Increase the discoverabil…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Single anonymized peer review; online submission via ScholarOne Manuscripts. Model summary
All peer review is single anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts.
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
- Taylor and Francis Ltd.
- Country or region
- NETHERLANDS
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Founded
- 1987
- ISSN
- 1385-4046
- Electronic ISSN
- 1744-4144
- Society / sponsor
- American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 40, Issue 6 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGIST
What CAS zone is CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGIST in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGIST is in Zone 3 of Psychology, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Psychology / Clinical Neurology / 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 CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGIST?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.62; CiteScore 6.2, h-index 129.
How long does peer review take at CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGIST?
Based on the dates recorded on 94 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 158 days (interquartile range 120–182 days); authors report an average review time of 6–12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Fairly easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 30%. 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 JCR quartile is CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGIST in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q2 (best quartile). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 3 of Psychology.
Which databases index CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGIST?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGIST is indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGIST open access, and what is the APC?
CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGIST is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .