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 5.7.2
In April 2023, all editors of the journals NeuroImage and NeuroImage: Reports (more than 40 scientists) resigned, citing their regret for Elsevier's refusal to lower the journal's publication fee from $3,450 to under $2,000.3 On April 17, the former NeuroImage editorial team announced 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.4567
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Quinn, Ryan (20 April 2023). "Exodus From an Elsevier Neuroscience Journal". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 20 April 2023. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/research/2023/04/20/exodus-elsevier-neuroscience-journal ↩
"Elsevier: NeuroImage transition - all editors have resigned over the high publication fee, and are starting a new non-profit journal, Imaging NeuroScience" (PDF). imaging-neuroscience.org. 17 April 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 April 2023. Retrieved 17 April 2023. https://imaging-neuroscience.org/Announcement.pdf ↩
Sanderson, Katharine (21 April 2023). "Editors quit top neuroscience journal to protest against open-access charges". Nature: d41586–023–01391–5. doi:10.1038/d41586-023-01391-5. PMID 37085706. https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fd41586-023-01391-5 ↩
Quinn, Ryan (2023-04-20). "Exodus From an Elsevier Neuroscience Journal". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 2023-07-04. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/research/2023/04/20/exodus-elsevier-neuroscience-journal ↩
Fazackerley, Anna (2023-05-07). "'Too greedy': mass walkout at global science journal over 'unethical' fees". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2023-07-04. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/07/too-greedy-mass-walkout-at-global-science-journal-over-unethical-fees ↩