BMC Neuroscience
Last updated ISSN 1471-2202
BMC Neuroscience is published by BioMed Central in neuroscience. It is open access. The article processing charge is $2,990.
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What it publishes
Recent work in BMC Neuroscience concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
- Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
- stochastic dynamics and bifurcation
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
- Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
- Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
- Neural Networks and Applications
Key facts
| Publisher | BioMed Central |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1471-2202 |
| Subject area | Neuroscience |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $2,990 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 5,096 |
| Publishing since | 1974 |
| Journal website | bmcneurosci.biomedcentral.com/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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