Brain Research
Last updated ISSN 0006-8993
Brain Research is published by Elsevier BV in neuroscience. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,360.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Brain Research concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology
- Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
- Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Ion channel regulation and function
- Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0006-8993, 1872-6240 |
| Subject area | Neuroscience |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,360 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 66,255 |
| Publishing since | 1848 |
| Journal website | www.journals.elsevier.com/brain-research |
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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