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Mental Lexicon is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.8), WoS ESCI. Published by John Benjamins Publishing Company.
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ISSN 1871-1340Verify ISSN ↗1871-1375Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 255 / 1137 | 77th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 302 / 1221 | 75th | Q1 |
| Cognitive Neuroscience | 99 / 129 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.8.
Mental Lexicon is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 255 of 1137), Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 302 of 1221) and Q4 in Cognitive Neuroscience (rank 99 of 129), by CiteScore 2025.
Mental Lexicon is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.419, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 35.
Mental Lexicon is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. Its print ISSN is 1871-1340 and its online ISSN is 1871-1375.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Mental Lexicon has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 0.92 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #251 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Mental Lexicon published 15 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 29. 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.
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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