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Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

University of Oxford·United Kingdom·ISSN 1749-5016

Open accessIn DOAJFee waivers availableNeuroscience

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience is published by University of Oxford as an open access journal (ISSN 1749-5016). The list article processing charge is $2,379. Typical time to publication is 20 wks. Its OpenAlex h-index is 167. Primary field: Neuroscience. It is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Fee waivers are stated as available. Figures on this page are sourced from OpenAlex and DOAJ and should be confirmed on the journal’s own site before submission.

Cost to publish

$2,379

Open-access article processing charge, list price.

Checked · Journal fee page

Time to publication

20 wks

Broadly typical for the field.

h-index

167

OpenAlex citation statistic. Not a Journal Impact Factor.

2-year mean citedness

3.1

Average citations to articles from the previous two years.

What it costs to publish here

Publishing an open-access article in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience is listed at $2,379. The journal reports that fee waivers are available — worth pursuing if you are funding this yourself or working from a lower-income country.

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What this journal has charged over time

List price for an open-access article in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, as recorded by OpenAlex for each year. The fee has risen 19% since 2021, from $1,995 to $2,379.

$0$1.2k$2.5k2021: $1,99520212022: $2,15820222023: $2,15820232024: $2,49820242025: $2,3792025

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

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  • 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 Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience publishes most, derived from the topics assigned to its indexed articles.

Neural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesFunctional Brain Connectivity StudiesAnxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive ProcessesFace Recognition and PerceptionAction Observation and SynchronizationPsychology of Moral and Emotional JudgmentNeuroendocrine regulation and behaviorMental Health Research TopicsMemory and Neural MechanismsNeural dynamics and brain function

Publication record

Indexed articles2,364
Total citations144,552
i10-index1,870
Most recent indexed article2026
Open access since2017
All ISSNs1749-5016, 1749-5024

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.