Neural Networks is the official journal of the three oldest societies dedicated to research in neural network

Neural network

The term neural network was traditionally used to refer to a network or circuit of biological neurons. The modern usage of the term often refers to artificial neural networks, which are composed of artificial neurons or nodes...

s: International Neural Network Society, European Neural Network Society

European Neural Network Society

The European Neural Network Society is an association of scientists, engineers, students, and others seeking to learn about and advance understanding of artificial neural networks...

 and Japanese Neural Network Society, published by Elsevier

Elsevier

Elsevier is a publishing company which publishes medical and scientific literature. It is a part of the Reed Elsevier group. Based in Amsterdam, the company has operations in the United Kingdom, USA and elsewhere....

. The journal is issued 10 times annually and available in electronic form via Science Direct.

The journal covers a broad range of topics in both artificial neural network

Artificial neural network

An artificial neural network , usually called neural network , is a mathematical model or computational model that is inspired by the structure and/or functional aspects of biological neural networks. A neural network consists of an interconnected group of artificial neurons, and it processes...

s and biological neural network

Biological neural network

In neuroscience, a biological neural network describes a population of physically interconnected neurons or a group of disparate neurons whose inputs or signalling targets define a recognizable circuit. Communication between neurons often involves an electrochemical process...

s, "ranging from behavioral and brain modeling, through mathematical and computational analyses, to engineering and technological applications of systems that significantly use neural network concepts and algorithms." Founded by Stephen Grossberg

Stephen Grossberg

Stephen Grossberg is a cognitive scientist, neuroscientist, biomedical engineer, mathematician, and neuromorphic technologist. He is the Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and a Professor of Mathematics, Psychology, and Biomedical Engineering at Boston University.Grossberg's work...

 (Cognitive and Neural Systems Dept., Boston University, USA), the current editors-in-chief are DeLiang Wang (Ohio State University, Columbus, USA Kenji Doya (Initial Research Project, Okinawa Inst. Of Science & Tech., Japan) and John G. Taylor

John G. Taylor

John Gerald Taylor, born 1931, gained a PhD from Christ's College, Cambridge . He has had a wide ranging academic career in mathematical physics and artificial intelligence. He is currently Emeritus Professor and Director of the Centre for Neural Networks at King's College London and Guest...

 (Dept. of Mathematics, King's College, University of London, UK).

Neural Networks is abstracted and indexed in Scopus

Scopus

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 and Science Citation Index

Science Citation Index

The Science Citation Index is a citation index originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information and created by Eugene Garfield in 1960, which is now owned by Thomson Reuters. The larger version covers more than 6,500 notable and significant journals, across 150 disciplines, from ...

. According to the 2008 Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports is an annual publication by the Healthcare & Science division of Thomson Reuters. It has been integrated with the Web of Knowledge, by Thomson Reuters, and is accessed from the Web of Science to JCR Web. It provides information about academic journals in the sciences and...

 its impact factor

Impact factor

The impact factor, often abbreviated IF, is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in science and social science journals. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals with higher impact factors deemed...

is 2.656 and the 5-year impact factor is 2.838.