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 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. The first Impact Factor was 2.786. |
| 2020 | The 2019 Impact Factor was 3.332. Brain Sciences ranked 113/271 (Q2) in the Category ‘Neurosciences’ in SCIE. |
| 2021 | The 2020 Impact Factor was 3.394. |
| 2022 | The 2021 Impact Factor was 3.333. |
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–present | Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Mark S. Kindy for the section on Environmental Neuroscience |
| Section Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Robert Kelly for the section on Psychiatric Diseases | |
| 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 |
