Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Subfield ranking · 2012
Gender Studies journal rankings 2012
57 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Gender Studies has 57 ranked journals in 2012. The median OJR fell 0.25 on 2011 to 1.25, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.97. The top three are The Leadership Quarterly, Gender & Society, and Social Politics International Studies in Gender State & Society.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2012. 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 2009–2011, the window the 2012 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)
57 ranked journals
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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 2011. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2009–2011, the window the 2012 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2009–2011 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 2003 to 2012. | Compare |
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1The Leadership QuarterlyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.59Q1 | 4.10 1.00 down from 2011 | 262 | 23% | $4,330 | ||
2Gender & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 5.56Q1 | 3.29 0.21 down from 2011 | 98 | 3% | $3,900 | ||
3Social Politics International Studies in Gender State & SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 5.38Q1 | 2.41 0.61 up from 2011 | 66 | 25% | $3,631 | ||
4Journal of Sport and Social IssuesSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.35Q1 | 3.31 1.56 up from 2011 | 73 | 17% | $3,650 | ||
5Journal of Sport ManagementHuman Kinetics · United States | 4.30Q1 | 1.97 0.20 up from 2011 | 133 | 12% | — | ||
6Sociology of Sport JournalHuman Kinetics · United States | 3.97Q1 | 2.29 0.03 up from 2011 | 80 | 0% | — | ||
7Feminist EconomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.42Q1 | 1.69 0.44 up from 2011 | 88 | 9% | — | ||
8Feminist TheorySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.09Q1 | 0.82 0.20 down from 2011 | 64 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
9Psychology of Men & MasculinityAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 2.98Q1 | 2.27 0.52 down from 2011 | 114 | 14% | — | ||
10Gender Work and OrganizationWiley · United Kingdom | 2.88Q1 | 1.76 0.33 up from 2011 | 138 | 10% | $4,880 | ||
11European Journal of Cultural StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.76Q1 | 1.26 0.40 up from 2011 | 96 | 13% | $3,650 | ||
12International Feminist Journal of PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.51Q1 | 0.70 0.07 down from 2011 | 98 | 3% | — | ||
13Psychology of Women QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.26Q1 | 2.32 0.49 up from 2011 | 223 | 8% | $3,900 | ||
14Sex RolesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.17Q1 | 1.88 0.12 up from 2011 | 518 | 18% | $3,190 | ||
15Gender in Management An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.97Q1 | 1.63 0.18 up from 2011 | 122 | 5% | — | ||
16Women s Studies International ForumElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.95Q2 | 1.04 0.48 up from 2011 | 210 | 11% | $3,666 | ||
17Gender and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.75Q2 | 0.97 0.05 up from 2011 | 163 | 10% | — | ||
18European Journal of Women s StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.66Q2 | 1.05 0.26 up from 2011 | 72 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
19The Journal of Men s StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.65Q2 | 0.37 0.12 down from 2011 | 137 | 5% | $3,400 | ||
20International Journal of Sport CommunicationHuman Kinetics · United States | 1.63Q2 | 2.19 1.13 up from 2011 | 99 | 3% | — | ||
21Journal of Gender StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.62Q2 | 1.05 0.18 up from 2011 | 89 | 6% | — | ||
22Review of Economics of the HouseholdSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.56Q2 | 0.70 0.22 down from 2011 | 85 | 14% | $3,390 | ||
23Feminist Media StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.55Q2 | 1.09 0.31 up from 2011 | 122 | 9% | — | ||
24Men and MasculinitiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.54Q2 | 0.62 0.30 down from 2011 | 60 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
25Journal of Women Politics & PolicyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.49Q2 | 0.53 0.10 down from 2011 | 46 | 0% | — | ||
26Sport Marketing QuarterlyUnited States | 1.27Q2 | 0.69 0.18 down from 2011 | 94 | 13% | — | ||
27Equal Opportunities InternationalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.27Q2 | —no 2011 value | 54 | — | — | ||
28Equality Diversity and Inclusion An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.25Q2 | 0.91 0.22 up from 2011 | 104 | 6% | — | ||
29Sex EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.25Q2 | 1.09 0.30 down from 2011 | 131 | 17% | — | ||
30International Journal of Men s HealthMen's Studies Press · United States | 1.24Q3 | 1.03 0.03 up from 2011 | 60 | 5% | — | ||
31Feminism & PsychologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.24Q3 | 1.31 0.15 up from 2011 | 141 | 5% | $3,900 | ||
32Celebrity StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.21Q3 | 0.77 0.09 down from 2011 | 71 | 2% | — | ||
33Women s Studies in CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.12Q3 | 0.26 0.59 down from 2011 | 44 | 0% | — | ||
34American Journal of Men s HealthOASAGE Publishing · United States | 1.11Q3 | 1.60 0.45 up from 2011 | 108 | 89% | $2,650 | ||
35Politics & GenderCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.09Q3 | 0.55no change | 148 | 25% | $3,550 | ||
36Journal of Forensic NursingLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.05Q3 | 1.43 0.35 up from 2011 | 89 | 9% | — | ||
37Soccer and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.01Q3 | 0.46 0.17 down from 2011 | 196 | 3% | — | ||
38Northern Lights Film and Media Studies YearbookIntellect · United Kingdom | 1.00Q3 | 0.70 0.20 up from 2011 | 33 | 0% | — | ||
39NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender ResearchRoutledge · United States | 0.94Q3 | 0.70 0.11 up from 2011 | 78 | 4% | — | ||
40Australian Feminist StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.93Q3 | 0.37 0.12 up from 2011 | 116 | 5% | — | ||
41NORMARoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.92Q3 | 0.41 0.05 up from 2011 | 34 | 17% | — | ||
42Gender IssuesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.81Q3 | 0.61 0.08 up from 2011 | 42 | 0% | $2,390 | ||
43Sexuality & CultureSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.77Q3 | 0.57 0.24 up from 2011 | 81 | 16% | $3,190 | ||
44Journal of Diversity Management (JDM)OAUnited States | 0.76Q4 | 0.63 0.36 up from 2011 | 52 | 85% | — | ||
45Girlhood StudiesBerghahn Books · United States | 0.76Q4 | 0.21 0.04 up from 2011 | 72 | 23% | — | ||
46Journal of Sport HistoryUniversity of Illinois Press · United States | 0.65Q4 | 0.24 0.06 up from 2011 | 323 | 0% | — | ||
47Journal of the National Medical AssociationElsevier BV · United States | 0.62Q4 | 1.14 0.10 up from 2011 | 613 | 11% | $3,160 | ||
48Advertising & Society ReviewJohns Hopkins University Press · United States | 0.59Q4 | 0.32 0.17 up from 2011 | 52 | 0% | — | ||
49Boyhood StudiesBerghahn Books · United States | 0.56Q4 | 0.17 0.50 down from 2011 | 36 | 8% | — | ||
50Culture Society and MasculinitiesMen's Studies Press · United States | 0.53Q4 | 0.20 0.26 down from 2011 | 38 | 8% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Gender Studies highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,049
- Education564
- Political Science and International Relations287
- Gender Studies57
- Communication54
- Safety Research49
- Public Administration48
- Health43
- Transportation40
- Library and Information Sciences39
- Linguistics and Language38
- Law37
- Anthropology36
- Urban Studies36
- Demography33
- Geography, Planning and Development24
- Cultural Studies10
- Development3
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2012. Corpus-wide, 75.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
13 additional Gender Studies journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2009–2011, 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: 2012. Publication window: 2009–2011. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 57
- Window papers (baseline)
- 25,210 +22.1% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 1.25 -21.9% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 4
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2009–2011 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 |
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| 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.