The Mental Lexicon
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Impact Factor: 1.3 (5-year: 1.3)Journal Citation Indicator: 0.69
CiteScore: 1.5
SNIP: 0.569 SJR: 0.604
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The Mental Lexicon is an interdisciplinary journal that provides an international forum for research that bears on the issues of the representation and processing of words in the mind and brain. We encourage both the submission of original research and reviews of significant new developments in the understanding of the mental lexicon. The journal publishes work that includes, but is not limited to the following:
- Models of the representation of words in the mind
- Computational models of lexical access and production
- Experimental investigations of lexical processing
- Neurolinguistic studies of lexical impairment.
- Functional neuroimaging and lexical representation in the brain
- Lexical development across the lifespan
- Lexical processing in second language acquisition
- The bilingual mental lexicon
- Lexical and morphological structure across languages
- Formal models of lexical structure
- Corpus research on the lexicon
- New experimental paradigms and statistical techniques for mental lexicon research
The Mental Lexicon publishes its articles Online First.
“In an era when the highly specialized journal may fail to draw a large enough audience and the overly generalized journal may fail to find a coherent voice, the Journal of the Mental Lexicon seems to have found that ideal niche: a clear scholarly conception, an openness to multidisciplinary approaches and a broad appeal to the researcher, the clinician, the theoretician and the historian. John Benjamins Publishing is to be congratulated both on the foresight to support this worthwhile project and the acumen to have selected two outstanding scholars to edit what promises to be a bellwether among competing journals.”
Prof. Dr. Harry A. Whitaker, Department of Psychology, Northern Michigan University
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Issues
Online-first articlesVolume 20 (2025)
Volume 19 (2024)
Volume 18 (2023)
Volume 17 (2022)
Volume 16 (2021)
Volume 15 (2020)
Volume 14 (2019)
Volume 13 (2018)
Volume 12 (2017)
Volume 11 (2016)
Volume 10 (2015)
Volume 9 (2014)
Volume 8 (2013)
Volume 7 (2012)
Volume 6 (2011)
Volume 5 (2010)
Volume 4 (2009)
Volume 3 (2008)
Volume 2 (2007)
Volume 1 (2006)
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Subscription Info
General information about our electronic journals.
Subscription rates
All prices for print + online include postage/handling.
| Online-only | Print + online | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Volume 21 (2026): 3 issues; ca. 360 pp. | EUR | EUR | |
| Volume 20 (2025): 3 issues; ca. 450 pp. | EUR | EUR |
Individuals may apply for a special online-only subscription rate of EUR
Private subscriptions are for personal use only, and must be pre-paid and ordered directly from the publisher.
Available back-volumes
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| Complete backset (Vols. 1‒19; 2006‒2024) | 56 issues; 8,430 pp. | EUR 5,392.00 | EUR 5,959.00 |
| Volume 19 (2024) | 3 issues; 450 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volume 18 (2023) | 3 issues; 450 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volumes 15‒17 (2020‒2022) | 3 issues; avg. 450 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volume 14 (2019) | 3 issues; 450 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volume 13 (2018) | 3 issues; 450 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volume 12 (2017) | 3 issues; 450 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volume 11 (2016) | 3 issues; 450 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volume 10 (2015) | 3 issues; 450 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volume 9 (2014) | 3 issues; 450 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volume 8 (2013) | 3 issues; 450 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volumes 2‒7 (2007‒2012) | 3 issues; avg. 450 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volume 1 (2006) | 2 issues; 330 pp. | EUR | EUR |
Author info
The Mental Lexicon offers online submission. Manuscripts should be submitted through the journal’s online submission and manuscript tracking site. Please consult the guidelines and the Short Guide to EM for Authors before you submit your paper.
If you are not able to submit online, please contact the editors: MentalLexiconprotonmail.com
Ethics
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Authors and reviewers are kindly requested to read this Ethics Statement.
Please also note the guidance on (the declaration of) the use of Artificial Intelligence.
Rights and Permissions
Authors must ensure that they have permission to use any third-party material in their contribution; the permission should include perpetual (not time-limited) world-wide distribution in print and electronic format.
For information on authors' rights, please consult the rights information page.
Open Access
Articles accepted for this journal can be made Open Access through payment of an Article Publication Charge (APC) of EUR 1800 (excl. tax). To arrange this, please contact openaccessbenjamins.nl as soon as your paper has been accepted for publication. More information can be found on the publisher's Open Access Policy page.
Corresponding authors from institutions with which John Benjamins has a Read & Publish arrangement can publish Open Access without paying a fee. Please consult this list of institutions for up-to-date information on which articles qualify.
For information about permission to post a version of your article online or in an institutional repository ('green' open access or self-archiving), please consult the rights information page.
If the article is not (to be made) Open Access, there is no fee for the author to publish in this journal.
Archiving
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