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Discover Neuroscience

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Open access

Overview

Discover Neuroscience is an open access journal publishing research from all fields relevant to neuroscience. Publication costs will be covered by Springer Nature until 31 December 2026. Authors whose articles are accepted for publication in Discover Neuroscience up to and including that date will not pay an article-processing charge. Note that the APC-free period does not apply to any journal to which your article may be transferred if not accepted in Discover Neuroscience. Current charge: £0/$0/€0 Standard charge: £1890/$2590/€2190.

  • Indexed in Web of Science's Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Scopus.
  • Considers articles from a broad range of neuroscience disciplines.
  • Formerly Neural Development (2023 Impact Factor: 4.0), Discover Neuroscience is expected to receive its first Impact Factor under the new name in 2027.
  • Topics include neurosurgery, cognitive processes, neuroimaging and more.
  • A journal in Springer Nature’s Discover Series: Rigorous, representative and wide-reaching.

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Electronic ISSN
3005-1827
Abstracted and indexed in
  1. BIOSIS
  2. Baidu
  3. CLOCKSS
  4. CNKI
  5. CNPIEC
  6. Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
  7. Chinese Academy of Medical Science (CAMS)
  8. Dimensions
  9. EBSCO
  10. EMBASE
  11. Gale
  12. GoOA - The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
  13. Google Scholar
  14. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  15. Meta
  16. Naver
  17. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  18. Pathway Studio
  19. Portico
  20. ProQuest
  21. Reaxys
  22. SCImago
  23. SCOPUS
  24. Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
  25. TD Net Discovery Service
  26. Wanfang
  27. eLibrary.ru
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