Why publish with Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience?

Founded in 2006 out of the then-burgeoning field of social neuroscience, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN), provides an open-access home for high-quality research that uses neuroscience and non-neuroscience techniques to advance our understanding of social and emotional aspects of the human mind and behavior. You can find out more about the journal’s aims and scope here.

Reputation

• Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience has an Impact Factor of 3.9 (2023) with a CiteScore of 6.8 (2022) and is ranked 8th out of 99 in the category of Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

• SCAN is a member journal of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and committed to high standards of ethics in publishing

• Support from a renowned, global, and authoritative Editorial Board

• High-quality, constructive peer review

• Pre-submission language editing available via Enago

• Typeset proofs publish immediately into the open issue via a continuous publication model

• Quick advanced access publication of the accepted, uncorrected PDF

• Easy access to article-level metrics showing the impact of your research

• When you publish with Oxford University Press, you support a mission to disseminate knowledge far and wide. OUP has no shareholders to satisfy and is part of the academic community – that means any financial surplus is applied in the pursuit of the educational and scholarly objectives of the University and the Press.

Range of content

• Various manuscript types, including: empirical neuroscience and empirical non-neuroscience articles, as well as review

• Browse some of the most highly cited research that has contributed to our continued success here.

• Browse research from our Special Issues here.

Commitment to open science

• Open access publishing makes high-quality scientific research accessible and more easily shared across borders, with no barriers to knowledge exchange. See more benefits of Open Access publishing below.

• Affordable article processing charge, with routes to gratis publication for authors based in certain countries.

• The cost of publishing Open Access may be covered under a read and publish agreement between our publisher, OUP, and the corresponding author’s institution

• Supportive of preprints - As an author, you retain the right to make an Author’s Original Version (preprint) available through various channels and this does not prevent submission to the Journal. 

• Progressive open data policy

Benefits of publishing Open Access

What are the benefits of publishing Open Access? There are many reasons to publish your article Open Access, from increasing public access to research to easily sharing your article:

Reach broader audiences

Open access broadens the total reach of your article. Anyone, not just those with access through their institution or a private subscription, can read your work. News outlets can easily reference your research to contribute to important stories. Or, social media users can find and share your article, widening the potential audience.

Give back to the public

Most of the funding for research is provided by governments, which means that public money supports research that is often inaccessible behind paywalls. Publishing open access removes the barrier between research and the public, expanding the research community to include anyone with an internet connection. It maximizes the possibility that academia, industry and/or society will reap the benefits of your hard work.

Increase the impact of your research

Open access can add value to the scholarly publishing process by maximizing discoverability and distribution of research materials online through a clear framework for reuse. Publishing open access means that anyone can view and make use of your work in perpetuity. A study in BMJ estimated that on average open access articles receive 89% more full-text downloads and 23% more unique visitors than articles published under traditional licenses. Higher visibility can lead to more citations. SPARC Europe estimates that open access articles receive on average 50% more citations.

Commitment to eliminating barriers to publication

Oxford University Press is deeply committed to fostering an academic community that supports and benefits from the talents of researchers from a wide range of backgrounds. For more information on initiatives at SCAN designed to make OA publication accessible to global authors, please see Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Instructions to Authors.

Learn more about publishing Open Access

Ready to submit your article to Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience?

Here are the next steps you can take towards publishing with Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience:

• Review the Instructions to Authors for information on journal policies and manuscript preparation

• Log into Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience’s submission site

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