Journal profile · Neurosciences
Journal of Motor Behavior
ISSN 0022-2895 · eISSN 1940-1027 · Routledge · UNITED STATES · Quarterly · Founded 1969
Journal of Motor Behavior: CAS Zone 4 · Psychology (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.72; hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 216 days to acceptance (96 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 56 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Motor Behavior is published by Routledge 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 Motor Control and Adaptation, Muscle activation and electromyography studies and Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention, together about 45.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Cognitive Neuroscience. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Aims and Scope: The Journal of Motor Behavior,a multidisciplinary journal of movement neuroscience, publishes articles that contribute to a basic understanding of motor control mechanisms. Articles from different disciplinary perspectives and levels of analysis are encouraged, including neurophysiological, biomechanical, electrophysiological, psychological, mathematical and physical, and clinical approaches. Applied studies are acceptable only to the extent that they provide a significant contribution to a basic issue in motor control. Of special interest to the journal are those articles that attempt to bridge insights from different disciplinary perspectives to infer processes underlying motor control. Those approaches may embrace postural, locomotive, and manipulative aspects of motor functions, as well as coordination of speech articulators and eye movements. Articles dealing with analytical techniques and mathematical modeling are welcome. In addition to reports of original research, the journal encourages theoretical and review articles and publishes notes and comments devoted to replications, criticisms, replies, or shorter articles presenting new and stimulating ideas. The journal will entertain proposals from guest editors who would like to devote all or part of one issue to a group of papers concerned with a common theme. Occasionally, there is a letters to the editors section for brief and informal statements on issues of concern to the readership. Submissions to the Journal of Motor Behavior are subject to a rigorous single anonymized peer review process, in which the reviewer's name is not disclosed to the authors. Submissions are initially screened by our editors, and if appropriate, independent expert referees are solicited. Following author revisions, an accepted article constitutes the final, definitive, and citable Version of Scholarly Record.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Neurosciences
Editor-in-chief Jinsung WangPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Motor Control and AdaptationNeuroscience26.8%
- Muscle activation and electromyography studiesEngineering10.9%
- Balance, Gait, and Falls PreventionHealth Professions8.1%
- Action Observation and SynchronizationPsychology8%
- Tactile and Sensory InteractionsNeuroscience7%
- Sport Psychology and PerformancePsychology4.5%
- Sports Performance and TrainingMedicine3.5%
- Children's Physical and Motor DevelopmentPsychology3.5%
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 | Neurosciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychology, Experimental | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Sport Sciences | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Psychology Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Psychology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Neurosciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychology, Experimental | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Sport Sciences | Zone 4 |
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 | Neurosciences | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychology, Experimental | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Sport Sciences | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIESSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of ScienceMEDLINEPubMedEmbasePsycINFOCINAHLCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: ProQuest, OCLC, VINITI RAN
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
- 1.72LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.3Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.6Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.7LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 2.7Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.45LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.45Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.76LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 0.76Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 63LetPub ·
- h-index
- 133OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,513OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.04OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 7.7%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 7.19%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 59LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 98,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,498 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 51 | 11 | 4 |
| 2025 | 56 | 16 | 50 |
| 2024 | 55 | 18 | 115 |
| 2023 | 57 | 17 | 221 |
| 2022 | 42 | 12 | 285 |
| 2021 | 56 | 20 | 462 |
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
216 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 181 days – 310 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 20 days (96 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 245 days
- Sample
- 96 articles with submission and acceptance dates (122 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)
- over 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 19%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 85 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 95 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 21 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
Journal of Motor Behavior 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 discoverability a…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
single anonymized peer review process Model summary
Submissions to the Journal of Motor Behavior are subject to a rigorous single anonymized peer review process, in which the reviewer's name is not disclosed to the authors.
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
- Routledge
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Founded
- 1969
- ISSN
- 0022-2895
- Electronic ISSN
- 1940-1027
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 58, Issue 4 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Motor Behavior
What CAS zone is Journal of Motor Behavior in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Motor Behavior is in Zone 4 of Psychology, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Neurosciences / Psychology / Psychology, Experimental / Sport Sciences. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Psychology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Journal of Motor Behavior?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.72; CiteScore 2.7, h-index 133.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Motor Behavior?
Based on the dates recorded on 96 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 216 days (interquartile range 181–310 days); authors report an average review time of over 12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 19%. 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.
Which databases index Journal of Motor Behavior?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Motor Behavior is indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists Web of Science, MEDLINE, PubMed, Embase, PsycINFO, CINAHL and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Journal of Motor Behavior open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Motor Behavior 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: .