Society for Neuroscience

Name

Society for Neuroscience

Legal name

Society for Neuroscience

Website

https://sfn.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1969

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Society for Neuroscience is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit scientific society founded in 1969, serving 30,000+ neuroscience researchers, physicians, and trainees across 95+ countries through two journals (JNeurosci, eNeuro), the Neuronline learning platform, the annual Neuroscience meeting, and public education via BrainFacts.org.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Scientific Publishing & Professional Association

NAICS

Business Associations (813910), Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813), Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (54171), Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (541)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Medical, Scientific & Healthcare Congress Organizers (THAHACAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Education, Research & Academic Congresses (THAHAJAD), Life Sciences (Biology, Ecology, Agriculture) Scholarly Publishing (EDAGAFAC)

Keywords

• Neuroscience research
• Scientific publishing
• Professional development
• Scientific conferences
• Brain science education

Headquarters

HQ city

Washington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Membership Dues: Individual membership fees for scientists and physicians with tiered benefits including sustaining associate, institutional program, and student memberships
2. Scientific Journal Subscriptions: Publishing of JNeurosci and eNeuro scientific journals with subscription and open access revenue
3. Annual Meeting Registration: Neuroscience annual meeting with registration fees for attendees, exhibitors, and sponsors
4. Professional Development Services: Career center (NeuroJobs), training courses, webinars, and professional development resources
5. Advertising and Sponsorship: Advertising opportunities in journals, at meetings, and sponsorship of programs and events

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) is the world's largest nonprofit membership organization for scientists and physicians devoted to understanding the brain and nervous system. It operates a multi-platform ecosystem built around peer-reviewed scientific journals (JNeurosci and eNeuro), the Neuronline digital learning community, the BrainFacts.org public education site, the annual Neuroscience meeting, and career resources via the NeuroJobs Career Center. It serves more than 30,000 members across 95+ countries through tiered individual, institutional, and student memberships, scientific publishing, training programs, and advocacy.

Product overview

The Society for Neuroscience operates a multi-platform ecosystem centered on scientific publishing, professional development, and community building for neuroscientists. The core publishing products include JNeurosci and eNeuro journals. The digital learning platform Neuronline provides webinars, courses, and resources. BrainFacts.org serves public education. The organization runs the annual Neuroscience conference (Neuroscience 2025/2026) and operates the NeuroJobs Career Center. SfN Members access the SfN Member Portal for directories and resources. Additional offerings include the Neuroscience Scholars Program fellowship, Meet-the-Experts webinar series, training courses, and various travel awards. The overall architecture is a platform-plus-services model combining publications, events, career resources, and professional development tools.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• JNeurosci: The Journal of Neuroscience, SfN's flagship peer-reviewed scientific journal.
• eNeuro
• Neuronline
• BrainFacts.org
• NeuroJobs
• Neuroscience Scholars Program

Products and services

• JNeurosci (The Journal of Neuroscience) Peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing original neuroscience research; serves professional neuroscientists, researchers, and academic institutions worldwide.
• eNeuro Peer-reviewed open-access journal covering neuroscience research, published by SfN for the global neuroscience research community.

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• International Brain Research Organization (IBRO)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership to provide $2,500 travel awards for neuroscientists to participate in the SfN annual meeting. Priority given to applicants from less developed and less well-funded countries. Award contingent on abstract acceptance.
• Japan Neuroscience Society (JNS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership to provide $2,500 travel awards for Japanese neuroscientists (PhD students or postdoctoral fellows) to participate in the SfN annual meeting. Award contingent on abstract acceptance.
• National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNINDS funds the Neuroscience Scholars Program (NSP), a multi-year fellowship for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in neuroscience to support career advancement.
• Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFENS-SfN partnership providing member awards to the SfN Annual Meeting, enabling European neuroscientists to participate and present research.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Springer Nature: Springer Nature publishes Nature Neuroscience, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, and many other neuroscience journals, competing with JNeurosci/eNeuro for submissions and library subscription budgets as a broad incumbent in scientific publishing.

Emerging players

• PLOS (Public Library of Science): PLOS is an open-access publisher whose PLOS ONE and PLOS Biology titles compete for neuroscience submissions and shape author expectations around open access, putting pressure on SfN's publishing economics.
• eLife: eLife is a nonprofit open-access journal covering neuroscience among other life sciences, directly competing for high-profile neuroscience submissions that might otherwise go to JNeurosci or eNeuro, with a digital-native peer-review model.

Direct peers

• American Psychological Association (APA): APA operates a flagship journal portfolio, an annual convention, and a large professional membership — directly comparable to SfN in publishing, conferencing, and member-services business model within an adjacent behavioral/medical science.
• American Chemical Society (ACS): ACS is a large scientific society that runs a portfolio of peer-reviewed journals, two major national meetings per year, and a tiered membership program — structurally the closest analog to SfN's publishing + meetings + membership stack in a different scientific vertical.
• American Physiological Society (APS): APS runs a portfolio of peer-reviewed physiology journals, an annual meeting (Experimental Biology), and a tiered membership program — a direct structural analog to SfN's publishing + meeting + membership stack in an adjacent life-sciences discipline.
• International Brain Research Organization (IBRO): IBRO is a global neuroscience organization that partners with SfN on travel awards and supports worldwide neuroscience capacity building — a peer in mission and operating model, with complementary global footprint.
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): AAAS is a large scientific society operating the Science journal family and a flagship annual meeting, with a membership and publishing model closely analogous to SfN's platform-plus-services structure across a broader scientific scope.
• Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS): FENS is the European counterpart to SfN, organizing a major neuroscience forum and serving as a partner/peer in advancing neuroscience research and education globally with a similar society-and-conference model.
• Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB): FASEB is a federation of life sciences societies that runs scientific conferences, journals, and advocacy programs — comparable to SfN in operating model and in serving biomedical researchers through conferences and publications.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• Facebookfacebook.com/societyforneuroscience
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• Instagraminstagram.com/societyforneuroscience

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

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