Home›Search›Memory and Cognition

Memory and Cognition

Springer New York · United States · Est. 1806

ISSN1532-5946

SJR Q1✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

/ 100

Medium Risk

Score Breakdown

✓ WoS SCIE/SSCI+25

✓ Scopus Q1+25

Total60

Journal Impact Factor

This journal is indexed in Web of Science (JCR) and has an official Journal Impact Factor. View the current value on the journal’s page ↗

SJR Score

1.149

H-Index

234

CiteScore

View ↗

Scopus metric · on the journal’s page

SNIP

1.32

Total Works

5,601

Total Citations

312,473

2yr Mean Citedness

1.56

Free JIF alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Inferred from recent articles

This journal publishes research on cognitive processes including memory, attention, and language. Studies investigate how factors such as structural priming, narrative, preference, prosodic cues, and value influence memory formation and retrieval. The journal also explores metacognitive judgments, sentence processing, and the impact of context on recognition memory.

AI-summarised from recent articles · verify on publisher page →

⚡ Speed vs Prestige

How does this journal balance review speed with impact level?

SJR Rank

Top 25% in field

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1806

FrequencyEight No. A Year, 2000-

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications5,601

Publisher OrgSpringer Science+Business Media

Visit Journal Website

Submission Info

Peer Review—

Review Time—

Acceptance Rate—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/12 · 50%

✅

Do you know the journal / publisher?

Springer New York

✅

Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

✅

Is the ISSN verified?

1532-5946

✅

Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus

❌

Peer review process documented?

N/A

❌

Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

❌

APC fees clearly disclosed?

N/A

✅

Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

❌

Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

❌

Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

❌

Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

✅

Primary language documented?

English

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Times cited

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Note: citations accumulate over time so older years appear higher

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Q1

Experimental and Cognitive PsychologyQ1

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q1

Neuropsychology and Physiological PsychologyQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Psychology, Experimental

Scopus Categories

Experimental and Cognitive PsychologyArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Neuropsychology and Physiological PsychologyMedicine (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Memory Processes and InfluencesNeural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesChild and Animal Learning DevelopmentReading and Literacy DevelopmentNeurobiology of Language and BilingualismVisual and Cognitive Learning ProcessesMemory and Neural MechanismsDeception detection and forensic psychologyDecision-Making and Behavioral EconomicsVisual perception and processing mechanisms