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Journal of Memory and Language is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.2), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Academic Press Inc..
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ISSN 0749-596XVerify ISSN ↗1096-0821Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Academic Press Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$4,670 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 62 / 1137 | 94th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 71 / 1221 | 94th | Q1 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 37 / 169 | 78th | Q1 |
| Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology | 22 / 77 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 206 / 570 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1985–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.2.
Journal of Memory and Language is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 62 of 1137), Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 71 of 1221) and Q1 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 37 of 169), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Memory and Language is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 5.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.747, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 185.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,670 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of Memory and Language is published by Academic Press Inc. Its print ISSN is 0749-596X and its online ISSN is 1096-0821.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Memory and Language has an h-index of 265 and a 2-year mean of 3.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #52 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Journal of Memory and Language published 85 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (39%), United Kingdom (13.7%) and China (7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.7 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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