| Journal of Memory and Language | |
| Cover: | Journal of Memory and Language cover.gif |
| Former Name: | Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior |
| Editor: | Kathleen Rastle |
| Discipline: | Linguistics, psychology, artificial intelligence |
| Abbreviation: | J. Mem. Lang. |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Frequency: | 8/year |
| History: | 1985–present |
| Impact: | 3.059 |
| Impact-Year: | 2020 |
| Website: | http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-memory-and-language |
| Oclc: | 11148687 |
| Lccn: | 85644519 |
| Issn: | 0749-596X |
| Eissn: | 1096-0821 |
The Journal of Memory and Language is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary academic journal of cognitive science, which focuses primarily on the issues of memory and language comprehension. It has been published by Elsevier since 1985. The current editor-in-chief is Kathleen Rastle (Royal Holloway, University of London).
The Institute for Scientific Information's Journal Citation Reports ranked the journal first in the field of linguistics, with a 2010 impact factor of 4.014.
The journal is indexed in Abstracts in Anthropology, Current Contents, Current Index to Journals in Education, Neuroscience Citation Index, PsycINFO, Research Alert, Scopus, and the Social Sciences Citation Index.