Hippocampus is a monthly peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 scientific journal

Scientific journal

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 founded in 1991. It is published by John Wiley & Sons

John Wiley & Sons

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, and according to its Statement of Aims, "provides a forum for the exchange of current information between investigators interested in the neurobiology of the hippocampal

Hippocampus

The hippocampus is a major component of the brains of humans and other vertebrates. It belongs to the limbic system and plays important roles in the consolidation of information from short-term memory to long-term memory and spatial navigation. Humans and other mammals have two hippocampi, one in...

 formation and related structures".

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by:

• PubMed
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• Science Citation Index Expanded
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• ISI Alerting Services
• Biological Abstracts
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• Current Contents
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• EMBASE
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  /Excerpta Medica
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• Journal Citation Reports
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  /Science Edition
• Neuroscience Citation Index
• Psychological Abstracts/PsycINFO
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• Reference Update
• Scopus
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• Web of Science
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According to the 2008 Journal Citation Reports, the journal's impact factor

Impact factor

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 is 5.230, ranking it 31st out of 221 in the category "Neurosciences".

External links

• Journal ranking on SCImago