Last Updated on July 16, 2026 by Dr. Bhagat
Here in this post, apart from Neuron Impact Factor, I have tried to compile all the necessary information a research scholar would seek before publishing an article in the journal.
About Neuron Journal
Neuron is the 6th most-cited journal in the world, with more than 540,000 citations in 2020, and receives widespread attention in policy documents and the media.
It was launched in 2011 and is published by nature portfolio.
Neuron Impact Factor
Impact Factor (IF) or often called journal impact factor (JIF) is an index provided by an analytics company named Clarivate. The impact factor is calculated by dividing the number of times the articles are cited in the last two years by the total number of publications in those two years.
- Total Citations in 2020 and 2021 = 500
- Total Number of Publications in 2020 and 2021 = 100
- Impact Factor of the Journal in 2022 = 500/100 = 5
Neuron Nature Impact Factor (2019-2025)
- Neuron Impact Factor 2018 – 4.122
- Neuron Impact Factor 2019 – 4.011
- Neuron Impact Factor 2020 – 3.998
- Neuron Impact Factor 2021 – 4.380
- Neuron Impact Factor 2022 – coming soon
Neuron H-index
The h index is a metric for evaluating the cumulative impact of an author’s scholarly output and performance; measures quantity with quality by comparing publications to citations.

The h index of Neuron Journal is 212, which means among all the published articles in this journal, 212 of these publications have received at least 212 citations each.
Neuron Journal Metrics
Neuron CiteScore
Neuron SCImago Rank
Year
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
2018
1.414
2019
1.341
2020
1.240
2021
1.005
Neuron Editorial Board Members
Below are the latest editorial board members of Neuron
- Dr Carlo Cannistraci
- Dr Joana Maria Ramis
- Professor Xiaochun Li
- Professor Luciano Bosso
- Dr Ryoung Shin
- Dr. Alberto G. Fairén
- Professor Xuyang Lu
- Professor Matjaž Perc
- Professor Yu Xin Zhang
- Professor Z. Altounian
- Dr Lena Ciric
- Professor Kah-Wee Ang
- Dr Pedro Oliveira
- Dr. Ciria C. Hernandez
- Professor Claudia RC Moreno
- Professor Jimin Zhao
- Professor Amy Peterson
- Dr. Jagadeesh Bayry
- Professor Timothy Geary
- Dr. Leyla Soleymani
- Dr. Ruth Blasco
- Dr. Feng Gao
- Professor Kenji Kansaku
Neuron Publication Fee
Neuron is an open-access journal. The publication fee for Science is £1690/$2190/€1890 in GBP/USD/EURO respectively (excluding taxes).
Neuron offer APC waivers and discounts for papers published in our fully open access journals whose corresponding authors are based in the world’s lowest-income countries (APC waivers and discounts policy for further information). Requests from other authors for APC waivers and discounts are considered on a case-by-case basis and may be granted in cases of financial need.
Neuron Review Time
Neuron prioritizes rapid publication and uses single-blind peer review, which is standard across Cell Press journals.
| Initial decision to review | 45 days after submission |
Neuron Reference Style
Neuron, uses the standard Nature referencing style.
Printed journals
Schott, D. H., Collins, R. N. & Bretscher, A. Secretory vesicle transport velocity in living cells depends on the myosin V lever arm length. J. Cell Biol. 156, 35-39 (2002).
Online only
Bellin, D. L. et al. Electrochemical camera chip for simultaneous imaging of multiple metabolites in biofilms. Nat. Commun. 7, 10535; 10.1038/ncomms10535 (2016).
For papers with more than five authors include only the first author’s name followed by ‘et al.’.
Books:
Smith, J. Syntax of referencing in How to reference books (ed. Smith, S.) 180-181 (Macmillan, 2013).
Online material:
Babichev, S. A., Ries, J. & Lvovsky, A. I. Quantum scissors: teleportation of single-mode optical states by means of a nonlocal single photon. Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0208066 (2002).
Manaster, J. Sloth squeak. Scientific American Blog Network http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/psi-vid/2014/04/09/sloth-squeak (2014).
Hao, Z., AghaKouchak, A., Nakhjiri, N. & Farahmand, A. Global integrated drought monitoring and prediction system (GIDMaPS) data sets. figshare https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.853801 (2014).
Neuron Endnote Style
You can download the Neuron Endnote Style and Neuron Zotero Style
Neuron Abbreviation
The ISO 4 standard abbreviation for abstracting, indexing and referencing purposes of Neuron is “Sci. Rep.“
Neuron Acceptance Rate
The acceptance rate of a journal is the ratio of the number of articles submitted to the number of articles published.
The average acceptance rate of Neuron journal is 48%
Neuron Indexed in
Science is indexed in Scopus, SCImago, Web of Science, and UGC journal ranking




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