Cognitive Systems Research

Cognitive Systems Research（常用缩写 Cogn. Syst. Res.）是 Elsevier 出版的认知系统研究期刊，1999 年创刊，致力于人类水平认知的研究，2025 年影响因子为 2.9。Cognitive Systems Research (commonly abbreviated as Cogn. Syst. Res.) is a journal of cognitive systems research published by Elsevier. Founded in 1999, it is dedicated to the study of human-level cognition, with a 2025 impact factor of 2.9.^[1]

Scope

• 学科定位： 期刊欢迎增进对认知与智能系统——无论自然还是人工——之理解、设计与应用的论文。Scope: the journal welcomes papers that advance the understanding, design and applications of cognitive and intelligent systems, natural and artificial alike.
• 收录主题： 研究兴趣涵盖认知能力与认知架构——包括脑启发与非脑启发两条路线——以及认知系统面向真实世界问题的应用，作者群体横跨体内与在硅研究中对认知的多面探索。Subject coverage: interest spans cognitive capacities and architectures, both brain-inspired and non-brain-inspired, together with applications of cognitive systems to real-world problems insofar as they illuminate cognition, drawing a community that studies cognition in vivo and in silico.
• 学科交叉： 收稿范围覆盖认知科学（含认知科学哲学）、人工智能与计算机科学、认知机器人学、发展科学、心理学、神经科学与神经形态工程。Interdisciplinary reach: submissions come from cognitive science including its philosophy, artificial intelligence and computer science, cognitive robotics, developmental science, psychology, neuroscience and neuromorphic engineering.
• 明确不收： 期刊不发表临床与医学论文，也不发与认知系统研究无关的纯机器学习论文，如单纯提出分类器变体或纯算法改进的工作。Explicit exclusions: clinical and medical papers are not published, and neither are pure machine learning papers such as classifier variants or algorithmic improvements bearing no connection to cognitive systems research.
• 收录与指标： 被科学引文索引扩展版与社会科学引文索引收录，2025 年影响因子为 2.9，CiteScore 为 6.3。Indexing and metrics: indexed in both the Science Citation Index Expanded and the Social Sciences Citation Index, the journal carries a 2025 impact factor of 2.9 and a CiteScore of 6.3.^[2]

History

• 1999年创刊： 期刊于 1999 年创刊，由 Elsevier 出版，为认知系统方向提供了专门交流平台。Founded in 1999: the journal was launched in 1999 under Elsevier, giving cognitive systems research a dedicated venue.
• 创刊背景： 认知科学与人工智能在世纪之交寻求重新汇流，期刊以「系统取向」为旗帜，把建模、机器人与心理学实验重新连接起来。Background to the founding: as cognitive science and artificial intelligence sought reunion at the turn of the century, the journal flew the banner of a systems perspective, reconnecting modelling, robotics and psychological experiment.
• BICA 挑战： 期刊在推动「BICA 挑战」——创造真实世界水平的人类心智计算等价物——方面发挥特殊作用，每年为 BICA 人工智能主题专设两期特刊。The BICA challenge: the journal plays a special role in fostering the BICA challenge of creating a real-life computational equivalent of the human mind, devoting two special issues to brain-inspired cognitive architectures for artificial intelligence each year.
• 近年指标： 影响因子 2019 年为 1.902，2021 年为 4.541，2025 年为 2.9。Recent metrics: the impact factor stood at 1.902 in 2019, 4.541 in 2021 and 2.9 in 2025.^[3]
• 出版效率： 期刊公开的运行数据显示，投稿到初审中位时间为 12 天，投稿到接受约 317 天。Operational record: the journal's published insights give a median submission-to-first-decision time of 12 days and roughly 317 days from submission to acceptance.
• 刊期： 期刊按季出版，2026 年已出版至第 100 卷。Frequency: the journal appears quarterly, and volume 100 was running in 2026.

Editors

• 现任主编： 主编为 Serge Thill，任职于荷兰奈梅亨拉德布德大学。Editor-in-chief: the journal is led by Serge Thill of Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
• 编委构成： 编委会覆盖认知建模范式、具身认知、发展科学与神经形态工程等方向。Editorial board: the board covers cognitive modelling paradigms, embodied cognition, developmental science and neuromorphic engineering.
• 投稿与评审： 稿件经 Editorial Manager 在线系统递交，接受同行评审，期刊支持开放获取出版选项。Submission and peer review: manuscripts are lodged through Editorial Manager and undergo peer review, with an open access option available.^[4]
• 编辑方针： 期刊要求实证研究辅以理论分析或计算建模，重视对认知理论的实质贡献而非单纯的性能指标。Editorial policy: empirical studies must be supplemented by theoretical analysis or computational modelling, and substantive contribution to cognitive theory is prized above bare performance metrics.
• 特刊组织： 除 BICA 专号外，期刊定期组织具身智能体、数字人等主题特刊，鼓励跨学科对话。Special issue practice: beyond the BICA issues, the journal organises topical collections on embodied agency, the digital human and adjoining themes to foster cross-disciplinary dialogue.