Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Last updated ISSN 1749-5016

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience is published by University of Oxford in neuroscience. It is open access. The article processing charge is $2,379.

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What it publishes

Recent work in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:

Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Face Recognition and Perception
Action Observation and Synchronization
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
Mental Health Research Topics
Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Neural dynamics and brain function

Key facts

Publisher	University of Oxford
ISSN	1749-5016, 1749-5024
Subject area	Neuroscience
Access	Open access
Article processing charge	$2,379
Indexed in	Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus · DOAJ
Articles published	2,371
Publishing since	1897
Journal website	scan.oxfordjournals.org/

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