NeuroImage


NeuroImage is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on neuroimaging, including functional neuroimaging and functional human brain mapping. The most recent editor-in-chief was Stephen Smith. The journal drew attention in 2023 when all editors resigned after a dispute with the publisher, Elsevier, over publication fees.
Abstracts from the annual meeting of the Organization for [Human Brain Mapping] have been published as supplements to the journal. In 2012, Elsevier launched an open access sister journal to NeuroImage, entitled NeuroImage: Clinical.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus, Science [Citation Index Expanded], Current Contents/Life Sciences, and BIOSIS Previews. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 5.7.

2023 mass resignation

In April 2023, all editors of the journals NeuroImage and NeuroImage: Reports resigned, citing their regret for Elsevier's refusal to lower the journal's publication fee from $3,450 to under $2,000. On April 17, the former NeuroImage editorial team announced List of [open letters by academics#Elsevier: NeuroImage transition - all editors have resigned over the high publication fee, and are starting a new non-profit journal, Imaging Neuroscience|in an open letter] the establishment of Imaging Neuroscience, a non-profit open access journal intended to replace NeuroImage as the leading journal in the field of neuroimaging.