Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience

Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience is published by Springer US and is in Zone 3 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Memory and Neural Mechanisms and Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes, together about 39.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Cognitive Neuroscience. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience publishes theoretical, review, and primary research articles concerned with behavior and brain processes in humans, both normal participants and patients with brain injuries or processes that influence brain function, such as neurological disorders (including both healthy and disordered aging) and psychiatric disorders (e.g., schizophrenia and depression). In addition, articles that use animal models to address cognitive or affective processes involving behavioral, invasive, or imaging methods are also highly welcome. One of the main goals of CABN is to be the premier outlet for strongly psychologically motivated studies of brain–behavior relationships. Thus, the editors highly encourage papers with clear integration between psychological theory and the conduct and interpretation of the neuroscientific data. Articles will be appropriate to the journal if they cover: (1) topics relating to cognition, such as perception, attention, memory, language, problem solving, reasoning, and decision-making; (2) topics concerning emotional processes, motivation, reward prediction, and affective states; and (3) topics relating to individual differences in relevant domains, including personality. In all cases, the editors will give highest priority to papers that report a combination of behavioral and neuroscientific methods to address these research topics.Further, the editors will give highest priority to papers that include sample sizes that provide adequate power. The fields of psychology and functional neuroimaging have become increasingly concerned that small sample sizes contribute to replication failures in the literature, and are converging on the consensus that there is a need to increase minimum samples sizes.We also invite synthetic papers that make use of computational and other approaches to formal modeling. CABN also welcomes multistudy empirical articles or articles integrating multiple methods and approaches to understanding brain–behavior relationships.For Manuscript Submission information and Author Instructions, please visit the Psychonomic Society homepage at:http://www.psychonomic-journals.org

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Behavioral Sciences

Editor-in-chief Diego A. PizzagalliPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 3 in mainland China (about 6%); most named United States 22, United Kingdom 7, Canada 4, Mainland China 3, Netherlands 3 (50 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

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Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

3.62LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

3.6Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

3.8Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

5.7LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

1.37LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.42LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

91LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

137OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

1,288OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

3.07OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

2.8%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

50.5%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

123LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

1,300,000Publisher website · 2026-09-29

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Average review time (community reports)

6–12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

ModerateLetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

Springer US

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

Frequency

Quarterly

Founded

2001

ISSN

1530-7026

Electronic ISSN

1531-135X

Society / sponsor

Psychonomic Society

Latest issue on the website

Volume 26, Issue 4 (August 2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗LetPub
• Author guidelines ↗LetPub
• Special issues ↗Publisher website