Brain and Development
Last updated ISSN 0387-7604
Brain and Development is published by Elsevier BV in medicine. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $2,810.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Brain and Development concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Epilepsy research and treatment
- Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Metabolism and Genetic Disorders
- Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies
- Infectious Encephalopathies and Encephalitis
- Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
- Educational Robotics and Engineering
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0387-7604, 1872-7131 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $2,810 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 7,292 |
| Publishing since | 1979 |
| Journal website | www.journals.elsevier.com/brain-and-development |
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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