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Neuropsychologia
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Neuropsychologia

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Neuroscience 102 468 514 26
Psychology 147 428 533 28

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 758
Documents by Best Scientists*: 736
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 21
SCIMAGO H-index: 236
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.849
Impact Factor: 2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Neuropsychologia?

The journal explores disciplines such as Cognitive psychology, Neuroscience, Cognition, Developmental psychology and Perception. In Neuropsychologia, Stimulus (physiology), Visual perception, Semantic memory and Communication are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Cognitive psychology research. The featured Semantic memory studies mainly concentrate on Episodic memory but also cover areas of interest in Recall.

Communication research discussed connects with the study of Artificial intelligence. Prefrontal cortex, Brain mapping, Posterior parietal cortex, Temporal lobe and Functional magnetic resonance imaging are all aspects of Neuroscience research featured in it. It investigates Cognition research which frequently intersects with Electroencephalography.

The journal focuses on Developmental psychology research which is adjacent to topics in Neglect. The Lateralization of brain function study featured in it draws connections with the study of Laterality. The study on Laterality presented in it intersects with subjects under the field of Cerebral hemisphere.

  • Cognitive psychology (40.56%)
  • Neuroscience (24.87%)
  • Cognition (23.13%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • The assessment and analysis of handedness: The Edinburgh inventory (29241 citations)
  • Handbook of neuropsychology (4028 citations)
  • Reorienting attention across the horizontal and vertical meridians: evidence in favor of a premotor theory of attention. (1523 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Neuropsychologia:

The published articles focus largely on the fields of Cognitive psychology, Neuroscience, Cognition, Developmental psychology and Perception. The Cognitive psychology research tackled in the most cited papers is interrelated with Semantic memory which concerns subjects like Episodic memory. The published papers tackle studies in Functional imaging and the interrelated subject of Functional magnetic resonance imaging to gain insights into Cognition.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Cognition
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Social psychology

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal generally zeroes in on subjects such as Cognitive psychology, Cognition, Perception, Neuroscience and Electroencephalography. Context (language use), Control (linguistics), Action (philosophy), Reading (process) and Semantic memory are some topics wherein Cognitive psychology research discussed in the journal have an impact. It links adjacent topics like Cognition with Clinical psychology.

It emphasizes research on Neuroscience, which includes concerns such as Episodic memory.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Super-Recognizers - a novel diagnostic framework, 70 cases, and guidelines for future work. (6 citations)
  • Amygdala-prefrontal connectivity during emotion regulation: A meta-analysis of psychophysiological interactions. (6 citations)
  • Mental fatigue induced by prolonged motor imagery increases perception of effort and the activity of motor areas. (6 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Neuropsychologia (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Morris Moscovitch (58 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • John R. Hodges (47 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Michael D. Rugg (44 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • Michael C. Corballis (43 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Glyn W. Humphreys (42 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Neuropsychologia (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University College London (301 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 5 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Oxford (273 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Toronto (238 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 12 less than at the previous edition,
  • French Institute of Health and Medical Research (214 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Max Planck Society (203 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 0.73% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 11.76% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 5.15% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 18.01% of all publications and 65.07% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Career Pathways in Neuropsychologia

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Choose the career pathway that aligns with your passion. Your journey into the world of neuropsychology and cognitive sciences may be more exciting than you think!

Top Publications

  • fMRI reveals language-specific predictive coding during naturalistic sentence comprehension

    Cory Shain;Idan Asher Blank;Idan Asher Blank;Marten van Schijndel;William Schuler;William Schuler

    (2020)
    174 Citations
  • Human amygdala stimulation effects on emotion physiology and emotional experience.

    Cory S. Inman;Kelly R. Bijanki;David I. Bass;Robert E. Gross

    (2020)
    163 Citations
  • Are words pre-activated probabilistically during sentence comprehension? Evidence from new data and a Bayesian random-effects meta-analysis using publicly available data

    Bruno Nicenboim;Bruno Nicenboim;Shravan Vasishth;Frank Rösler

    (2020)
    75 Citations
  • Precision, binding, and the hippocampus: Precisely what are we talking about?

    Arne D. Ekstrom;Arne D. Ekstrom;Andrew P. Yonelinas

    (2020)
    69 Citations
  • Mutual benefits: Combining reinforcement learning with sequential sampling models.

    Steven Miletić;Russell J. Boag;Birte U. Forstmann

    (2020)
    58 Citations
  • Do domain-general executive resources play a role in linguistic prediction? Re-evaluation of the evidence and a path forward

    Rachel Ryskin;Roger P. Levy;Evelina Fedorenko

    (2020)
    53 Citations

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