''Brain Research Bulletin'' is a
peer-reviewed
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scientific journal
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Content
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covering
neuroscience
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. It was established in 1976 with
Matthew J. Wayner (then at
Syracuse University
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) as founding
editor in chief
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. Later it was edited by
Stephen Dunnett (
Cardiff University
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). He was succeeded in 2010 by
Andres Buonanno (
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
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). It is published 18 times per year by
Elsevier
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.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in
BIOSIS Previews
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BIOSIS Previews i ...
,
Current Contents
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History
''Cur ...
/Life Sciences,
Embase,
Elsevier Biobase
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,
MEDLINE
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,
PsycINFO
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,
PsycLIT
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,
Science Citation Index
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, and
Scopus
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. According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'', it has a 2020
impact factor
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of 4.077.
References
External links
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Neuroscience journals
Elsevier academic journals
English-language journals
Publications established in 1976