Hippocampus is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1991. It is published by John Wiley & Sons and covers the neurobiology of the hippocampal formation and related structures. The founding editors-in-chief were David Amaral and Menno Witter, who were succeeded in 1998 by Howard Eichenbaum (Boston University), who remained in this position until he died in 2017.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by: • Biological Abstracts • BIOSIS Previews • Chemical Abstracts Service • Current Contents/Life Sciences • Embase/Excerpta Medica • Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed • ProQuest databases • PsycINFO/Psychological Abstracts • Science Citation Index • Scopus According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 3.899.