Impact and Relevance of Cognition Journal in the Field of Cognitive Science: An Evaluation

TL;DR

This scientometric study analyzes 20 years of publications in the journal Cognition, highlighting research trends, prolific contributors, and geographic distribution to evaluate its impact in cognitive science.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive bibliometric overview of the journal Cognition, including publication patterns, author and institutional contributions, and citation analysis.

Findings

2870 papers published from 1999 to 2018

USA researchers contributed the most articles

Identified top 20 prolific authors, institutions, and countries

Abstract

This study aims to present a scientometric analysis of the journal titled Cognition for a period of 20 years from 1999 to 2018. The present study was conducted with an aim to provide a summary of research activity in current journal and characterize its most aspects. The research coverage includes the year wise distribution of articles, authors, institutions, countries and citation analysis of the journal. The analysis showed that 2870 papers were published in journal of Cognition from 1999 to 2018. The study identified top 20 prolific authors, institutions and countries of the journal. Researchers from USA have been made the most percentage of contributions.