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Neuroscience Insights
ISSN 2633-1055 · SAGE · United Kingdom
Neuroscience Insights: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.5 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 2,650; median 120 days to acceptance (30 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 38.1% (journal website); 16 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Neuroscience Insights is published by SAGE and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies and Long-Term Effects of COVID-19, together about 20.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Neurology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Neuroscience Insights publishes rigorous, mechanistic studies spanning molecular, cellular, systems, and cognitive neuroscience. The journal prioritizes both fundamental and translational studies providing mechanistic insights … | View full journal description This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).Meet our Editorial Board.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Neuroscience-Neuroscience (all)
Editor-in-chief Michel CayouettePublisher website
Editorial board by country: 5 in mainland China (about 11%); most named United States 20, Mainland China 5, Canada 4, India 3, Germany 2 (45 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration MechanismsNeuroscience8.3%
- Functional Brain Connectivity StudiesNeuroscience6.2%
- Long-Term Effects of COVID-19Medicine6.2%
- Neurobiology and Insect Physiology ResearchNeuroscience5.2%
- Nerve injury and regenerationNeuroscience5.2%
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation StudiesNeuroscience5.2%
- Alzheimer's disease research and treatmentsMedicine4.6%
- Neural dynamics and brain functionNeuroscience4.6%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Neurosciences | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Neurosciences | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
PMCPublisher 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
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 3.5Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 3.4Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4.1LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.72LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.78LetPub ·
- h-index
- 23OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 51OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.97OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 2.9%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 14LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 176 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 13 | 13 | 3 |
| 2025 | 16 | 16 | 47 |
| 2024 | 36 | 36 | 273 |
| 2023 | 23 | 23 | 189 |
| 2022 | 26 | 26 | 213 |
| 2021 | 18 | 18 | 252 |
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
120 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 105 days – 170 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 29 days (30 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 174 days
- Sample
- 30 articles with submission and acceptance dates (36 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)
- about 9 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 38.1%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 10 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 38 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 31 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 9 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
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | USD 2,650 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,650 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 2,650 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 3,200 | — | — |
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 prepare5 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- 250–300 words
- Keywords
- ≥ 5
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 2,000 words
- Reference style
- AMA
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
Article types accepted17, with length limits
- brief reportView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- brief reportsMain article types are as follows: Original Research, Brief Reports, Methods, Reviews, Mini-Reviews, Replication or Validation Studies, Methods & Protocols and …Length not stated
- commentariesCommentaries are invite-only.Length not stated
- commentaryView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…main text ≤ 1,000 words · abstract ≤ 200 words · references ≤ 10
- hypothesisView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- letters to the editorView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- methodsMain article types are as follows: Original Research, Brief Reports, Methods, Reviews, Mini-Reviews, Replication or Validation Studies, Methods & Protocols and …Length not stated
- methods & protocolsMain article types are as follows: Original Research, Brief Reports, Methods, Reviews, Mini-Reviews, Replication or Validation Studies, Methods & Protocols and …Length not stated
- mini-reviewsMain article types are as follows: Original Research, Brief Reports, Methods, Reviews, Mini-Reviews, Replication or Validation Studies, Methods & Protocols and …Length not stated
- original articleView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- original researchView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- protocolView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- replication or validation studiesMain article types are as follows: Original Research, Brief Reports, Methods, Reviews, Mini-Reviews, Replication or Validation Studies, Methods & Protocols and …Length not stated
- research paperView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- research reportView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- reviewView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…main text ≤ 150 words · abstract ≤ 150 words · references ≤ 150
- reviewsMain article types are as follows: Original Research, Brief Reports, Methods, Reviews, Mini-Reviews, Replication or Validation Studies, Methods & Protocols and …Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Author contributions
You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please include the Author Contributions heading within your submission after the Acknowledgements section. The information you give on submission will then show under the Author Contributions heading later at the proofing stage.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
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. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
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 ·- License & copyright
Manuscript content licensed under Creative Commons Licenses Model summary
Manuscript content on this site is licensed under Creative Commons Licenses
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
Online-only journal Model summary
Neuroscience Insights 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. If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time article processing charge (APC) is payable to cover the cost of publishing, paid by the fun…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
All identities visible 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 rejec…
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
The journal will consider 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 reviewed…
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
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2633-1055
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Neuroscience Insights
What CAS zone is Neuroscience Insights in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Neuroscience Insights is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Neurosciences. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Neuroscience Insights?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 3.5; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 4.1, h-index 23.
How long does peer review take at Neuroscience Insights?
Based on the dates recorded on 30 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 120 days (interquartile range 105–170 days); authors report an average review time of about 9 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 38.1%. 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 Neuroscience Insights?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: 250–300 words; Keywords: ≥ 5; Manuscript length: ≤ 2,000 words; Reference style: AMA; Suggested reviewers: Optional. 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 Neuroscience Insights based?
Of the 45 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 5 (about 11%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (20), Mainland China (5) and Canada (4). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Neuroscience Insights?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Neuroscience Insights is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists PMC; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Neuroscience Insights open access, and what is the APC?
Neuroscience Insights is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,650.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; 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: .