Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN) is a fully open-access neuroscience journal published by Oxford University Press and the official journal of the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS), founded in 2006 and devoted to the social and emotional aspects of the human mind and behaviour, with a 2025 Web of Science impact factor of 3.6（Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience，简称 SCAN）由（Oxford University Press）出版、是（Social & Affective Neuroscience Society，SANS）的官方期刊，2006 年创办，专注人类社会与情绪心理及行为的神经机制，2025 年影响因子为 3.6。

Scope

• Research on the neural basis of social cognition, that is, how people perceive, understand and interact with one another社会认知的神经基础研究，即人如何感知、理解他人并与之互动。
• Affective neuroscience, covering emotion, motivation and the brain mechanisms underlying feeling情感神经科学，涵盖情绪、动机与感受的脑机制。
• Neuroeconomics and social decision-making, including reward, valuation and choice神经经济学与社会决策，包括奖赏、价值评估与选择。
• Political neuroscience and other emerging interdisciplinary applications of social neuroscience政治神经科学以及社会神经科学的其他新兴交叉应用。
• Work that combines neuroscientific techniques such as fMRI and EEG with behavioural, physiological and non-neuroscience methods结合（fMRI）、（EEG）等神经科学技术与行为、生理及非神经科学方法的研究。

History

• The journal was founded in 2006 amid the rapid growth of social neuroscience, with its first issue appearing in June 2006该刊于 2006 年社会神经科学快速兴起之际创办，首期于 2006 年 6 月出版。
• It is published by Oxford University Press and serves as the official journal of the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society该刊由（Oxford University Press）出版，并作为（Social & Affective Neuroscience Society）的官方期刊。
• An inaugural editorial, When Opposites Attract, framed the journal's ambition to unite social scientists and neuroscientists创刊社论以 When Opposites Attract 为题，确立了联合社会科学家与神经科学家的办刊愿景。
• It is a fully open-access journal that now publishes a single annual volume, with articles released online on a rolling basis该刊现为完全开放获取期刊，每年一卷、文章按连续出版在线发布。

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is Ajay Satpute of the University of California, Los Angeles现任主编为（University of California）洛杉矶分校的 Ajay Satpute。
• The founding editor is Matthew D. Lieberman, also of the University of California, Los Angeles创始主编为同样来自（University of California）洛杉矶分校的 Matthew D. Lieberman。
• An international team of about sixteen associate editors and some seventy consulting editors spans the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Canada, Israel, the Netherlands, China and Australia由约十六位副编辑与约七十位顾问编辑组成的国际团队，分布于美国、英国、德国、奥地利、加拿大、以色列、荷兰、中国与澳大利亚等地。
• The journal uses peer review, requires authors to declare any editorial conflict of interest, and appoints a conflict-free editor to handle such manuscripts该刊采用同行评审，要求作者声明与编委的潜在利益冲突，并指定无冲突的编辑处理相关稿件。