Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Subfield ranking · 2019
Gender Studies journal rankings 2019
64 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Gender Studies has 64 ranked journals in 2019. The median OJR rose 0.09 on 2018 to 1.57, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.39. The top three are The Leadership Quarterly, Gender & Society, and Psychology of Women Quarterly.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. 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 2016–2018, the window the 2019 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)
64 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 2018. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2016–2018 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 2010 to 2019. | Compare |
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1The Leadership QuarterlyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 6.15Q1 | 9.20 1.98 up from 2018 | 175 | 32% | $4,330 | ||
2Gender & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 4.44Q1 | 3.65 0.18 down from 2018 | 94 | 12% | $3,900 | ||
3Psychology of Women QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.70Q1 | 2.58 1.30 down from 2018 | 114 | 23% | $3,900 | ||
4Feminist EconomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.51Q1 | 2.32 0.68 up from 2018 | 90 | 27% | — | ||
5Journal of Sport ManagementHuman Kinetics · United States | 3.13Q1 | 3.04 0.81 up from 2018 | 152 | 25% | — | ||
6European Journal of Women s StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.99Q1 | 3.40 2.09 up from 2018 | 78 | 32% | $3,650 | ||
7Social Politics International Studies in Gender State & SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.78Q1 | 1.90 0.30 up from 2018 | 77 | 34% | $3,631 | ||
8Gender Work and OrganizationWiley · United Kingdom | 2.70Q1 | 2.16 1.15 down from 2018 | 180 | 35% | $4,880 | ||
9European Journal of Cultural StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.66Q1 | 2.48 0.29 up from 2018 | 137 | 45% | $3,650 | ||
10Journal of Women Politics & PolicyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.64Q1 | 2.16 0.20 up from 2018 | 73 | 8% | — | ||
11Sex RolesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.64Q1 | 2.66 0.39 up from 2018 | 406 | 20% | $3,190 | ||
12Journal of Sport and Social IssuesSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.61Q1 | 3.02 0.54 up from 2018 | 65 | 26% | $3,650 | ||
13Journal of Gender StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 2.61Q1 | 2.49 0.81 up from 2018 | 177 | 32% | — | ||
14Critical Military StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.55Q1 | 2.15 0.94 up from 2018 | 100 | 34% | — | ||
15Feminist TheorySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.53Q1 | 1.56 0.03 up from 2018 | 73 | 17% | $3,650 | ||
16Politics & GenderCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.39Q1 | 1.37 0.10 up from 2018 | 179 | 34% | $3,550 | ||
17Feminist Media StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.33Q2 | 2.01 0.42 up from 2018 | 254 | 17% | — | ||
18Gender Technology and DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · India | 2.06Q2 | 1.62 0.14 down from 2018 | 43 | 27% | — | ||
19Men and MasculinitiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.00Q2 | 1.80 0.49 up from 2018 | 128 | 19% | $3,650 | ||
20Psychology of Men & MasculinityAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.98Q2 | 2.14 0.40 up from 2018 | 162 | 21% | — | ||
21Gender in Management An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.93Q2 | 1.95 0.12 up from 2018 | 108 | 26% | — | ||
22Gender and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.92Q2 | 1.42 0.18 down from 2018 | 271 | 29% | — | ||
23International Feminist Journal of PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.88Q2 | 1.74 0.44 up from 2018 | 140 | 34% | — | ||
24Women s Studies in CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.85Q2 | 1.07 0.38 down from 2018 | 109 | 8% | — | ||
25Women s Studies International ForumElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.81Q2 | 1.73 0.66 up from 2018 | 231 | 19% | $3,666 | ||
26Feminism & PsychologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.72Q2 | 2.47 0.66 up from 2018 | 93 | 27% | $3,900 | ||
27Celebrity StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.71Q2 | 0.84 0.26 down from 2018 | 137 | 29% | — | ||
28Communication & SportSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.70Q2 | 2.11 0.66 up from 2018 | 94 | 24% | $3,650 | ||
29Sociology of Sport JournalHuman Kinetics · United States | 1.66Q2 | 2.51 1.01 up from 2018 | 124 | 21% | — | ||
30Equality Diversity and Inclusion An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.63Q2 | 1.21 0.24 down from 2018 | 139 | 14% | — | ||
31NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender ResearchRoutledge · United States | 1.60Q2 | 0.93 0.15 down from 2018 | 82 | 63% | — | ||
32Sex EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.58Q2 | 2.03 0.22 down from 2018 | 145 | 35% | — | ||
33Australian Feminist StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.56Q3 | 1.36 0.64 up from 2018 | 114 | 37% | — | ||
34NASPA Journal About Women In Higher EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.49Q3 | 1.45 0.12 up from 2018 | 51 | — | — | ||
35American Journal of Men s HealthOASAGE Publishing · United States | 1.34Q3 | 2.39 0.44 up from 2018 | 357 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
36Sport Marketing QuarterlyUnited States | 1.28Q3 | 1.68 0.66 up from 2018 | 77 | 38% | — | ||
37International Journal of Sport CommunicationHuman Kinetics · United States | 1.26Q3 | 1.33 0.24 up from 2018 | 115 | 9% | — | ||
38Review of Economics of the HouseholdSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.18Q3 | 1.00 0.10 down from 2018 | 115 | 24% | $3,390 | ||
39NORMARoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.16Q3 | 1.51 0.39 up from 2018 | 62 | 56% | — | ||
40The Journal of Men s StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.13Q3 | 1.26 0.38 up from 2018 | 73 | 14% | $3,400 | ||
41Sport Management Education JournalHuman Kinetics · United States | 1.09Q3 | 1.13 0.45 up from 2018 | 35 | 14% | — | ||
42Soccer and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.07Q3 | 1.23 0.77 up from 2018 | 182 | 29% | — | ||
43Sexuality & CultureSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.04Q3 | 1.16 0.34 up from 2018 | 243 | 23% | $3,190 | ||
44Investigaciones FeministasOAComplutense University of Madrid · Spain | 1.03Q3 | 1.13 0.63 up from 2018 | 86 | 100% | — | ||
45Masculinities & Social ChangeOAHipatia Press · Spain | 0.96Q3 | 0.93 0.04 up from 2018 | 63 | 100% | $431 | ||
46Gender and LanguageEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.83Q3 | 0.55 0.01 up from 2018 | 69 | 18% | — | ||
47Journal for the Study of Sports and Athletes in EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.80Q3 | 0.69 0.02 up from 2018 | 41 | 0% | — | ||
48Gender IssuesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.78Q3 | 0.67 0.22 down from 2018 | 76 | 37% | $2,390 | ||
49Journal of Forensic NursingLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 0.75Q4 | 0.91 0.01 down from 2018 | 109 | 11% | — | ||
50Journal of the National Medical AssociationElsevier BV · United States | 0.71Q4 | 1.43 0.54 up from 2018 | 220 | 20% | $3,160 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Gender Studies highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,325
- Education724
- Political Science and International Relations326
- Communication74
- Gender Studies64
- Safety Research56
- Health53
- Public Administration51
- Law48
- Linguistics and Language48
- Urban Studies48
- Transportation46
- Library and Information Sciences44
- Demography38
- Anthropology37
- Geography, Planning and Development31
- Cultural Studies8
- Development3
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2019. Corpus-wide, 83.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
16 additional Gender Studies journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2016–2018, 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: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 64
- Window papers (baseline)
- 38,553 +19.6% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 1.57 +16.1% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 4
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2016–2018 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.