Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Gender Studies journal rankings 2017
63 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Gender Studies has 63 ranked journals in 2017. The median OJR rose 0.13 on 2016 to 1.48, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.11. The top three are Gender & Society, The Leadership Quarterly, and Social Politics International Studies in Gender State & Society.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2017. 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 2014–2016, the window the 2017 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)
63 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 2016. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2014–2016 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 2008 to 2017. | Compare |
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1Gender & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 5.61Q1 | 3.65 0.47 up from 2016 | 104 | 8% | $3,900 | ||
2The Leadership QuarterlyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.71Q1 | 5.17 0.82 up from 2016 | 202 | 30% | $4,330 | ||
3Social Politics International Studies in Gender State & SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.65Q1 | 1.88 0.34 down from 2016 | 81 | 26% | $3,631 | ||
4Gender Work and OrganizationWiley · United Kingdom | 4.12Q1 | 2.87 1.43 up from 2016 | 123 | 37% | $4,880 | ||
5Journal of Sport ManagementHuman Kinetics · United States | 3.39Q1 | 1.94 0.03 down from 2016 | 191 | 15% | — | ||
6European Journal of Cultural StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.37Q1 | 2.16 0.47 up from 2016 | 137 | 31% | $3,650 | ||
7Psychology of Women QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.33Q1 | 2.86 0.23 up from 2016 | 115 | 11% | $3,900 | ||
8Men and MasculinitiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.19Q1 | 1.97 0.24 up from 2016 | 109 | 14% | $3,650 | ||
9Feminist EconomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.16Q1 | 1.85 0.18 up from 2016 | 116 | 33% | — | ||
10Sex RolesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.65Q1 | 2.41 0.16 up from 2016 | 372 | 20% | $3,190 | ||
11Gender in Management An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.50Q1 | 1.92 0.34 up from 2016 | 103 | 24% | — | ||
12Feminist Media StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.36Q1 | 2.16 1.29 up from 2016 | 180 | 18% | — | ||
13Communication & SportSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.33Q1 | 1.80 0.33 up from 2016 | 88 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
14Gender and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.21Q1 | 1.11 0.51 down from 2016 | 259 | 29% | — | ||
15Feminist TheorySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.21Q1 | 1.41 0.15 up from 2016 | 75 | 30% | $3,650 | ||
16Journal of Sport and Social IssuesSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.11Q1 | 1.44 0.24 up from 2016 | 63 | 23% | $3,650 | ||
17International Journal of Sport CommunicationHuman Kinetics · United States | 2.11Q2 | 0.98 0.21 down from 2016 | 111 | 7% | — | ||
18Critical Military StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.09Q2 | 1.07 0.19 down from 2016 | 66 | 31% | — | ||
19Politics & GenderCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.05Q2 | 1.25 0.02 down from 2016 | 178 | 32% | $3,550 | ||
20Women s Studies International ForumElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.03Q2 | 1.45 0.08 down from 2016 | 246 | 23% | $3,666 | ||
21NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender ResearchRoutledge · United States | 1.99Q2 | 0.61 0.43 down from 2016 | 78 | 42% | — | ||
22Australian Feminist StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.96Q2 | 1.38 0.17 up from 2016 | 121 | 21% | — | ||
23Equality Diversity and Inclusion An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.88Q2 | 1.42 0.42 up from 2016 | 149 | 21% | — | ||
24Psychology of Men & MasculinityAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.87Q2 | 1.42 0.58 down from 2016 | 160 | 24% | — | ||
25Sex EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.69Q2 | 1.94 0.32 up from 2016 | 147 | 29% | — | ||
26European Journal of Women s StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.65Q2 | 0.78 0.19 down from 2016 | 110 | 25% | $3,650 | ||
27NORMARoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.62Q2 | 0.66 0.71 down from 2016 | 62 | 18% | — | ||
28Journal of Gender StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.61Q2 | 1.11 0.27 up from 2016 | 163 | 27% | — | ||
29International Feminist Journal of PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.56Q2 | 0.94 0.05 down from 2016 | 129 | 19% | — | ||
30Sociology of Sport JournalHuman Kinetics · United States | 1.54Q2 | 0.86 0.40 down from 2016 | 111 | 27% | — | ||
31The Journal of Men s StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.52Q2 | 1.00 0.10 down from 2016 | 77 | 6% | $3,400 | ||
32Northern Lights Film and Media Studies YearbookIntellect · United Kingdom | 1.48Q2 | 1.00 0.35 up from 2016 | 30 | 33% | — | ||
33Review of Economics of the HouseholdSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.47Q3 | 1.42 0.80 up from 2016 | 116 | 35% | $3,390 | ||
34Women s Studies in CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.46Q3 | 1.01 0.01 up from 2016 | 96 | 0% | — | ||
35Gender Technology and DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · India | 1.41Q3 | 1.29 0.42 up from 2016 | 44 | 24% | — | ||
36Celebrity StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.40Q3 | 1.11 0.03 down from 2016 | 164 | 15% | — | ||
37Journal of Women Politics & PolicyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.39Q3 | 0.95 0.20 up from 2016 | 78 | 6% | — | ||
38Feminism & PsychologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.34Q3 | 1.04 0.01 up from 2016 | 120 | 31% | $3,900 | ||
39The Journal of Fandom StudiesIntellect · United Kingdom | 1.24Q3 | 0.33 0.28 down from 2016 | 57 | 5% | — | ||
40Sexuality & CultureSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.21Q3 | 1.09 0.08 up from 2016 | 182 | 17% | $3,190 | ||
41Journal of Intercollegiate SportOAPublisher not listed | 1.19Q3 | 0.76 0.01 up from 2016 | 65 | 100% | — | ||
42NASPA Journal About Women In Higher EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.14Q3 | 0.97 0.81 up from 2016 | 44 | 14% | — | ||
43Gender IssuesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.10Q3 | 0.72 0.01 up from 2016 | 65 | 28% | $2,390 | ||
44Culture Society and MasculinitiesMen's Studies Press · United States | 1.07Q3 | 0.72 0.14 up from 2016 | 32 | — | — | ||
45Masculinities & Social ChangeOAHipatia Press · Spain | 1.03Q3 | 0.62 0.02 down from 2016 | 65 | 100% | $431 | ||
46Gender and LanguageEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.02Q3 | 0.66 0.25 up from 2016 | 59 | 14% | — | ||
47American Journal of Men s HealthOASAGE Publishing · United States | 0.97Q3 | 1.35 0.24 down from 2016 | 348 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
48Sport Marketing QuarterlyUnited States | 0.96Q3 | 0.68 0.04 up from 2016 | 80 | 26% | — | ||
49Investigaciones FeministasOAComplutense University of Madrid · Spain | 0.94Q4 | 0.65 0.11 up from 2016 | 71 | 100% | — | ||
50Girlhood StudiesBerghahn Books · United States | 0.92Q4 | 0.44 0.12 down from 2016 | 94 | 22% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Gender Studies highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,300
- Education698
- Political Science and International Relations318
- Communication71
- Gender Studies63
- Health53
- Safety Research52
- Public Administration51
- Transportation48
- Linguistics and Language47
- Law46
- Urban Studies45
- Anthropology41
- Library and Information Sciences41
- Demography40
- Geography, Planning and Development28
- Cultural Studies9
- Development4
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2017. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
14 additional Gender Studies journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2014–2016, 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: 2017. Publication window: 2014–2016. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 63
- Window papers (baseline)
- 34,461 +22.0% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 1.485 +5.8% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 4
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2014–2016 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.