Journal rankings · indicator year 2008
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Subfield ranking · 2008
Gender Studies journal rankings 2008
44 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Gender Studies has 44 ranked journals in 2008. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.47 against 1.00, unchanged on 2007. A journal needs OJR 2.52 to reach Q1. The top three are Social Politics International Studies in Gender State & Society, The Leadership Quarterly, and Gender & Society.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2008. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2005–2007, the window the 2008 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Social Sciences (22)
44 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2007. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2005–2007, the window the 2008 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2005–2007 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2008. | Compare |
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1Social Politics International Studies in Gender State & SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.83Q1 | 1.49 3.66 down from 2007 | 63 | 9% | $3,631 | ||
2The Leadership QuarterlyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.64Q1 | 4.21 0.12 up from 2007 | 156 | 4% | $4,330 | ||
3Gender & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 5.23Q1 | 2.92 0.15 up from 2007 | 99 | 6% | $3,900 | ||
4Feminist EconomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 4.90Q1 | 2.71 1.76 up from 2007 | 99 | 12% | — | ||
5European Journal of Women s StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.73Q1 | 3.14 1.08 up from 2007 | 60 | 64% | $3,650 | ||
6Gender Work and OrganizationWiley · United Kingdom | 3.23Q1 | 1.55 0.43 down from 2007 | 129 | 11% | $4,880 | ||
7Journal of Sport ManagementHuman Kinetics · United States | 3.14Q1 | 1.86 0.16 up from 2007 | 101 | 15% | — | ||
8Psychology of Men & MasculinityAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 3.13Q1 | 2.64 0.06 up from 2007 | 59 | 8% | — | ||
9Gender and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.96Q1 | 1.58no change | 108 | 4% | — | ||
10European Journal of Cultural StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.74Q1 | 1.09 0.11 up from 2007 | 84 | 72% | $3,650 | ||
11Sociology of Sport JournalHuman Kinetics · United States | 2.52Q1 | 1.60 0.16 up from 2007 | 74 | 23% | — | ||
12Feminist Media StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.45Q2 | 1.08 0.61 up from 2007 | 76 | 26% | — | ||
13Psychology of Women QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.20Q2 | 1.70 0.20 up from 2007 | 218 | 7% | $3,900 | ||
14Feminist TheorySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.03Q2 | 1.05 0.46 down from 2007 | 59 | 3% | $3,650 | ||
15Journal of Sport and Social IssuesSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.98Q2 | 1.25no change | 83 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
16Politics & GenderCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.72Q2 | 1.28 0.14 up from 2007 | 136 | 4% | $3,550 | ||
17Sex RolesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.72Q2 | 1.20 0.29 down from 2007 | 522 | 13% | $3,190 | ||
18Women s Studies International ForumElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.68Q2 | 0.81 0.03 down from 2007 | 161 | 7% | $3,666 | ||
19Journal of Gender StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.64Q2 | 0.73 0.01 down from 2007 | 62 | 8% | — | ||
20International Feminist Journal of PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.62Q2 | 0.33 0.46 down from 2007 | 126 | 9% | — | ||
21International Journal of Men s HealthMen's Studies Press · United States | 1.60Q2 | 1.40 0.79 up from 2007 | 50 | 4% | — | ||
22Review of Economics of the HouseholdSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.48Q2 | 1.22 0.58 up from 2007 | 69 | 16% | $3,390 | ||
23Men and MasculinitiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.46Q3 | 0.62 0.37 down from 2007 | 125 | 2% | $3,650 | ||
24Women in Management ReviewEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.46Q3 | 0.74 0.18 up from 2007 | 200 | — | — | ||
25Feminism & PsychologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.35Q3 | 0.84 0.11 up from 2007 | 127 | 5% | $3,900 | ||
26Sex EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.28Q3 | 0.91 0.24 down from 2007 | 81 | 14% | — | ||
27Sport Marketing QuarterlyUnited States | 1.20Q3 | 0.69 0.26 up from 2007 | 99 | 3% | — | ||
28The Journal of Men s StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.18Q3 | 0.60 0.04 down from 2007 | 75 | 4% | $3,400 | ||
29Equal Opportunities InternationalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.11Q3 | 1.10 0.78 up from 2007 | 156 | 3% | — | ||
30Women s Studies in CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.08Q3 | 0.64 0.36 up from 2007 | 41 | 0% | — | ||
31Soccer and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.02Q3 | 0.75 0.19 up from 2007 | 98 | 13% | — | ||
32Journal of Women Politics & PolicyTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.70Q3 | 0.57 0.37 up from 2007 | 51 | 13% | — | ||
33Australian Feminist StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.65Q3 | 0.23 0.30 down from 2007 | 100 | 5% | — | ||
34American Journal of Men s HealthOASAGE Publishing · United States | 0.58Q4 | 0.69no 2007 value | 54 | 81% | $2,650 | — | |
35NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender ResearchRoutledge · United States | 0.53Q4 | 0.16 0.04 down from 2007 | 59 | 4% | — | ||
36Sexuality & CultureSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.46Q4 | 0.27no change | 65 | 8% | $3,190 | ||
37Gender Technology and DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · India | 0.45Q4 | 0.24 0.04 up from 2007 | 77 | 9% | — | ||
38The Journal of Men s Health and GenderElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.44Q4 | 0.50 0.20 down from 2007 | 198 | — | — | ||
39Journal of Forensic NursingLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.39Q4 | 0.44 0.24 up from 2007 | 87 | 3% | — | ||
40Gender IssuesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.29Q4 | 0.10 0.12 down from 2007 | 61 | 5% | $2,390 | ||
41Advertising & Society ReviewJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 0.26Q4 | 0.11 0.08 up from 2007 | 91 | 0% | — | ||
42The Sport JournalUnited States | 0.20Q4 | 0.16 0.09 down from 2007 | 91 | 0% | — | ||
43Asian Journal of Women s StudiesTaylor & Francis · South Korea | 0.19Q4 | 0.12 0.08 down from 2007 | 67 | 4% | — | ||
44Journal of Diversity Management (JDM)OAUnited States | 0.00Q4 | 0.03 0.03 up from 2007 | 35 | 83% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Gender Studies highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science861
- Education443
- Political Science and International Relations255
- Public Administration48
- Gender Studies44
- Communication43
- Library and Information Sciences36
- Health35
- Linguistics and Language35
- Law34
- Safety Research34
- Anthropology33
- Demography29
- Urban Studies28
- Transportation27
- Geography, Planning and Development18
- Cultural Studies9
- Development3
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2008. Corpus-wide, 71.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
19 additional Gender Studies journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2005–2007, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2008. Publication window: 2005–2007. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 44
- Window papers (baseline)
- 18,660 +24.3% from indicator year 2005
- Median OJR
- 1.472 +5.4% from indicator year 2005
- Rising journals (2025)
- 4
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2005–2007 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 28 | 29 | 35 | 36 | 36 | 39 | 44 | 43 | 44 | 50 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 55 | 59 | 59 | 63 | 63 | 61 | 64 | 64 | 64 | 63 | 66 | 66 | 65 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 10,935 | 11,714 | 12,455 | 13,374 | 14,039 | 15,017 | 15,870 | 17,112 | 18,660 | 20,643 | 22,125 | 23,767 | 25,210 | 26,870 | 28,236 | 30,198 | 32,235 | 34,461 | 36,129 | 38,553 | 41,139 | 44,762 | 48,878 | 50,970 | 52,564 | 54,508 | |
| Median OJR | 0.84 | 1.04 | 0.99 | 1.31 | 1.277 | 1.398 | 1.276 | 1.470 | 1.472 | 1.60 | 1.27 | 1.50 | 1.25 | 1.326 | 1.404 | 1.378 | 1.35 | 1.485 | 1.482 | 1.57 | 1.49 | 1.329 | 1.30 | 1.23 | 1.376 | 1.43 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.