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Memory and Cognition is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.4), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer New York.
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ISSN 0090-502XVerify ISSN ↗1532-5946Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer New York
Cost to publish: About US$3,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 81 / 692 | 88th | Q1 |
| Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | 53 / 169 | 68th | Q2 |
| Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology | 30 / 77 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1973–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.4.
Memory and Cognition is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 81 of 692), Q2 in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (rank 53 of 169) and Q2 in Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology (rank 30 of 77), by CiteScore 2025.
Memory and Cognition is indexed in the 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 4.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.078, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 152.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,190 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.
Memory and Cognition is published by Springer New York. Its print ISSN is 0090-502X and its online ISSN is 1532-5946.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Memory and Cognition has an h-index of 235 and a 2-year mean of 1.89 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #80 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Memory and Cognition published 149 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 168. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (26.7%), Germany (12.1%) and Canada (12%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. 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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