Journal History
| 2011 | The inaugural issue was released. Brain Sciences was published as a quarterly journal. |
| 2012 | Brain Sciences was indexed in Chemical Abstracts (CAS). |
| 2014 | Brain Sciences was indexed in PubMed and PubMed Central (PMC). |
| 2015 | Brain Sciences was indexed in ESCI. |
| 2016 | Brain Sciences was indexed in Scopus. |
| 2017 | Brain Sciences adopted a monthly publication schedule. |
| 2018 | Brain Sciences received its first CiteScore (2017) of 2.56. |
| 2018 | Brain Sciences instituted a Section Editor-in-Chief structure to spread all submissions to nine Sections. |
| 2019 | Brain Sciences was indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded-SCIE. Brain Sciences received its first Impact Factor (2.786). |
| 2020 |
Brain Sciences received its 2019 Impact Factor (3.332), ranked 113/271 (Q2) in "Neurosciences". |
| 2021 | The Impact Factor increased to 3.394. |
| 2022 | Brain Sciences received its 2021 Impact Factor (3.333). |
| 2023 | Brain Sciences received its 2022 Impact Factor (3.3), ranked 144/272 (Q3) in "Neurosciences". Brain Sciences received its CiteScore (2022) of 3.9, ranked 65/110 in "Neuroscience". |
| 2024 | Neurotology and Neuro-ophthalmology was renamed as Neuro-otology and Neuro-ophthalmology. |
Editor-in-Chief
| 2011–2019 | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Germán Barrionuevo |
| 2020–present | Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Stephen D. Meriney |
Section Editor-in-Chief
| 2018–2021 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Jason Brandt for the section on Cognitive Neuroscience |
| 2018–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Evanthia Bernitsas for the section on Neurotechnology and Neuroimaging |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Heather Bortfeld for the section on Neurolinguistics | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Mark Burke for the section on Developmental Neuroscience | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Caterina Cinel for the section on Neural Engineering, Neuroergonomics and Neurorobotics | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Andrew Clarkson for the section on Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Sergey Kasparov for the section on Neuroglia | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Jose Lujan for the section on Computational Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Konstantin V. Slavin for the section on Systems Neuroscience | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Pierluigi Zoccolotti for the section on Neuropsychology | |
| 2021–2024 | Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Robert Emmett Kelly for the section on Psychiatric Diseases Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Mark S. Kindy for the section on Environmental Neuroscience |
| 2021–present | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Luigi De Gennaro for the section on Behavioral Neuroscience | |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Roberto Cilia for the section on Neuromuscular and Movement Disorders | |
| 2022–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Gerry Leisman for the section on Educational Neuroscience |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Yang Zhang for the section on Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience | |
| 2023–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Manmeet Singh Ahluwalia for the section on Neuro-oncology Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Kabirullah Lutfy for the section on Neuroscience of Pain Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. George B. Stefano for the section on Neurodegenerative Diseases Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Adolfo M. Bronstein for the section on Neuro-otology and Neuro-ophthalmology |
| 2024–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Rocco Salvatore Calabrò for the section on Neurorehabilitation |
