SPOTLIGHT

04 November 2026

Information on the methodology used in the ranking for the 2026 Nature Spotlight: Neuroscience.

The 2026 Nature Spotlight: Neuroscience tables are based on the Nature Index database, covering research articles published between 2021 and 2025.

The data are drawn from a subset of 128 journals in the Nature Index that excludes journals in areas unrelated to neuroscience. In 125 of these, neuroscience articles were identified using a combination of search terms, including keywords and fields of interest, in Digital Science’s Dimensions database (Digital Science is part of Holtzbrinck, the majority shareholder of Nature ’s publisher, Springer Nature).…