Overview
Discover Neuroscience is an open access journal publishing research from all fields relevant to neuroscience. Publication costs for Discover Neuroscience will be covered by Springer Nature until 31 December 2025. Authors whose articles are accepted for publication in Discover Neuroscience up to and including that date will not pay an article-processing charge. Note that the APC-free period does not apply to other Discover series journals, or to any journal to which your article may be transferred if not accepted in Discover Neuroscience. 2025 charge: £0/$0/€0 Standard charge: £1490.00/$1990.00/€1690.00.
- Considers articles from a broad range of neuroscience disciplines.
- Formerly Neural Development (2023 Impact Factor: 4.0), Discover Neuroscience is expected to receive its first Impact Factor under the new name in 2027.
- Topics include neurosurgery, cognitive processes, neuroimaging and more.
- A Discover journal focused on speed of submission and review, service, and integrity.
- Journal Impact Factor
- 4.0 (2023)
- 5-year Journal Impact Factor
- 4.1 (2023)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 3 days
- Downloads
- 317,715 (2023)
Latest articles
Journal updates
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Writing your manuscript: interactive author tutorials
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Introducing In Review
In Review, a new preprint service brought to you by Research Square, is available on Discover Neuroscience.
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Topical Collections
The journal publishes guest-edited Topical Collections on emerging hot topics of relevance to all aspects of neuroscience. Our Topical Collections allow readers to quickly identify research on subject areas of particular interest to them.
Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 3005-1827
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- BIOSIS
- Baidu
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) - GoOA
- DOAJ
- Dimensions
- EBSCO
- EMBASE
- Gale
- Google Scholar
- Meta
- Naver
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- Pathway Studio
- Portico
- ProQuest
- Reaxys
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
- Wanfang
- Copyright information