Journal of Cognition and Culture

Aims & Scope

The Journal of Cognition and Culture provides an interdisciplinary forum for exploring the mental foundations of culture and the cultural foundations of mental life.

The primary focus of the journal is on explanations of cultural phenomena in terms of acquisition, representation and transmission involving cognitive capacities without excluding the study of cultural differences.

The journal contains articles, commentaries, reports of experiments, and book reviews that emerge out of the inquiries by, and conversations between, scholars in experimental psychology, developmental psychology, social cognition, neuroscience, human evolution, cognitive science of religion, and cognitive anthropology.

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.370

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	50

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	14575

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	62

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2024	0.60

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities, Psychology and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Linkages between Number Concepts, Spatial Thinking, and Directionality of Writing: The SNARC Effect and the REVERSE SNARC Effect in English and Arabic Monoliterates, Biliterates, and Illiterate Arabic Speakers

  Citation: 273

  Authors: Samar

• On Modeling Cognition and Culture: Why cultural evolution does not require replication of representations

  Citation: 200

  Authors: Joseph, Robert

• Spreading Non-natural Concepts: The Role of Intuitive Conceptual Structures in Memory and Transmission of Cultural Materials

  Citation: 161

  Authors: Justin, Melanie

• Meat Is Good to Taboo: Dietary Proscriptions as a Product of the Interaction of Psychological Mechanisms and Social Processes

  Citation: 155

  Authors: Daniel, Carlos David

• Shame in Two Cultures: Implications for Evolutionary Approaches

  Citation: 152

  Authors: Daniel

• On Cultural Conceptualisations

  Citation: 135

  Authors: Farzad

• Intuitive Conceptions of Dead Agents' Minds: The Natural Foundations of Afterlife Beliefs as Phenomenological Boundary

  Citation: 130

  Authors: Jesse

• Children's Acceptance of Conflicting Testimony: The Case of Death

  Citation: 127

  Authors: Paul, Marta

• Folkbiology doesn't Come from Folkpsychology: Evidence from Yukatek Maya in Cross-Cultural Perspective

  Citation: 121

  Authors: Scott, Douglas, Elizabeth, Valentina, Edilberto, Paulo

• The role of attraction in cultural evolution

  Citation: 112

  Authors: Nicolas, Dan

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