Overview

Topics in Cognitive Science (topiCS) features coherent selections of scholarly papers dedicated to a joint topic across all subfields in cognitive science. It thus provides a platform for presenting a topic with both greater depth and scope, and ideally from a broader range of perspectives, than stand-alone articles typically can. Proposals for a topic and the individual contributions to them will be rigorously assessed in terms of quality, relevance, and diversity.

topiCS began publishing in January 2009 and is included with a subscription to Cognitive Science and with membership in the Cognitive Science Society.

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Aims and Scope

The journal aims to publish exciting, often under-reported work of highest quality across the full range of cognitive science disciplines. Typical contributions are reviews and updates on new or emerging work, either in established areas that are experiencing an upsurge of interest or a major paradigm shift, or from scholars who do not consider themselves cognitive scientists and yet are still doing cognitive science work. Particularly welcome are also great debates and other forms of dialogue between different scholars and/or approaches in a field. The following kinds of proposals are particularly appropriate for the journal:

  • a set of related articles on a joint topic – the ‘classical’ special issue
  • spotlights on new and emerging research fields
  • strong position papers combined with a broad range of commentaries
  • great debates on controversial questions

This list is not meant to be exhaustive, and alternative formats may be suggested. Controversies or debates started in one issue may be followed up by Letters or Commentaries in a later issue. Unsolicited stand-alone submissions will not be considered.

Keywords

cognitive science, topics, artificial intelligence, linguistics, anthropology, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, education, mind, brain, cognition, CogSci, CSS, tops, topics in cognitive science

Abstracting and Indexing Information
  • Academic Search Alumni Edition (EBSCO Publishing)
  • Current Contents: Social & Behavioral Sciences (Clarivate Analytics)
  • Health & Medical Collection (ProQuest)
  • Health Research Premium Collection (ProQuest)
  • Hospital Premium Collection (ProQuest)
  • MEDLINE/PubMed (NLM)
  • PhilPapers
  • ProQuest Central (ProQuest)
  • ProQuest Central K-534
  • Psychology Database (ProQuest)
  • PsycINFO/Psychological Abstracts (APA)
  • SCOPUS (Elsevier)
  • Social Sciences Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
  • The DBLP Computer Science Bibliography (University of Trier)
  • Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)