BiomedicalPublications

Brain Research Bulletin

Elsevier BV·United States·ISSN 0361-9230

Open accessIn DOAJFee waivers availableNeuroscience

Cost to publish

$3,280

Open-access article processing charge, list price.

Time to publication

16 wks

Broadly typical for the field.

h-index

204

OpenAlex citation statistic. Not a Journal Impact Factor.

2-year mean citedness

3.5

Average citations to articles from the previous two years.

What it costs to publish here

Publishing an open-access article in Brain Research Bulletin is listed at $3,280. The publisher also lists 3,070 EUR, 2,630 GBP, 406,820 JPY. The journal reports that fee waivers are available — worth pursuing if you are funding this yourself or working from a lower-income country.

The journal's own fee page →

What this journal has charged over time

List price for an open-access article in Brain Research Bulletin, as recorded by OpenAlex for each year. The fee has risen 40% since 2019, from $2,350 to $3,280.

$0$1.6k$3.3k2019: $2,35020192020: $2,35020202021: $3,00020212022: $3,09020222023: $2,70020232024: $2,89020242025: $3,2802025

Publishers change list prices without notice and often apply discounts, institutional agreements or waivers. Treat this as the trend, and confirm the current figure with the journal.

Peer review and licensing

Review modelAnonymous peer review (policy)
LicenceCC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-ND
Author keeps copyrightNo
Plagiarism screeningYes
Editorial boardPublished →
LanguagesEN

Verification checks

8 of 8 confirmed

These are facts we could verify in public records, not a verdict. A journal missing a check is not necessarily disreputable — many long-established subscription journals sit outside the open-access registries entirely. Use them as questions to ask, and confirm anything that matters directly with the journal before you submit.

  • Listed in the Directory of Open Access JournalsDOAJ applies a documented set of inclusion criteria.
  • Included in OpenAlex's curated core setOpenAlex flags well-established venues that appear across major indexes.
  • Peer review model publicly declaredAnonymous peer review
  • Publication charges stated up frontA journal that will not tell you the fee before submission is worth a second look.
  • Screens submissions for plagiarismReported to DOAJ by the journal.
  • Participates in a digital preservation schemeArchiving means the record survives if the publisher does not.
  • Assigns persistent identifiers (DOIs)Standard practice; its absence is unusual.
  • Still actively publishingMost recent indexed article: 2026.

Scope

The subjects Brain Research Bulletin publishes most, derived from the topics assigned to its indexed articles.

Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology ResearchNeuroendocrine regulation and behaviorNeurotransmitter Receptor Influence on BehaviorNeuropeptides and Animal PhysiologyStress Responses and CortisolReceptor Mechanisms and SignalingMemory and Neural MechanismsNeuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration MechanismsNeuroscience of respiration and sleepPain Mechanisms and Treatments

Publication record

Indexed articles12,148
Total citations385,976
i10-index7,692
Most recent indexed article2026
Open access since2023
All ISSNs0361-9230, 1873-2747

Counts reflect what OpenAlex has indexed and will differ from the publisher's own figures. We do not show a founding year: OpenAlex's first-publication dates are distorted by mis-dated records — it puts PLoS ONE in 1806 — and we would rather omit a number than print one we cannot stand behind.