Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Gender Studies journal rankings 2020
64 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Gender Studies has 64 ranked journals in 2020. The median OJR fell 0.08 on 2019 to 1.49, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.29. The top three are Feminism & Psychology, The Leadership Quarterly, and Gender & Society.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2020. 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 2017–2019, the window the 2020 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 2019. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2017–2019 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 2011 to 2020. | Compare |
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1Feminism & PsychologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 5.54Q1 | 5.82 3.35 up from 2019 | 85 | 25% | $3,900 | ||
2The Leadership QuarterlyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 5.19Q1 | 9.08 0.12 down from 2019 | 173 | 40% | $4,330 | ||
3Gender & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 4.50Q1 | 4.27 0.62 up from 2019 | 107 | 5% | $3,900 | ||
4Psychology of Women QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.23Q1 | 3.47 0.88 up from 2019 | 112 | 15% | $3,900 | ||
5Journal of Women Politics & PolicyTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.17Q1 | 2.25 0.08 up from 2019 | 65 | 8% | — | ||
6European Journal of Women s StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.16Q1 | 4.19 0.79 up from 2019 | 75 | 39% | $3,650 | ||
7Politics & GenderCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 3.01Q1 | 3.75 2.38 up from 2019 | 192 | 60% | $3,550 | ||
8Sex RolesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.83Q1 | 3.84 1.18 up from 2019 | 372 | 30% | $3,190 | ||
9European Journal of Cultural StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.76Q1 | 2.13 0.35 down from 2019 | 167 | 50% | $3,650 | ||
10Journal of Sport ManagementHuman Kinetics · United States | 2.66Q1 | 2.81 0.23 down from 2019 | 167 | 21% | — | ||
11Gender Work and OrganizationWiley · United Kingdom | 2.49Q1 | 3.39 1.23 up from 2019 | 215 | 53% | $4,880 | ||
12Feminist Media StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.41Q1 | 3.34 1.32 up from 2019 | 283 | 19% | — | ||
13Gender in Management An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 3.42 1.47 up from 2019 | 114 | 26% | — | ||
14Social Politics International Studies in Gender State & SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.31Q1 | 1.84 0.06 down from 2019 | 124 | 44% | $3,631 | ||
15Feminist TheorySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.30Q1 | 2.02 0.46 up from 2019 | 88 | 45% | $3,650 | ||
16NORMARoutledge · United Kingdom | 2.29Q1 | 3.38 1.86 up from 2019 | 55 | 53% | — | ||
17Men and MasculinitiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.28Q2 | 2.00 0.20 up from 2019 | 143 | 19% | $3,650 | ||
18Feminist EconomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.26Q2 | 2.50 0.18 up from 2019 | 94 | 23% | — | ||
19International Feminist Journal of PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.16Q2 | 2.79 1.05 up from 2019 | 145 | 33% | — | ||
20Gender and LanguageEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.16Q2 | 2.69 2.14 up from 2019 | 76 | 28% | — | ||
21The Journal of Men s StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.10Q2 | 1.86 0.60 up from 2019 | 52 | 38% | $3,400 | ||
22Journal of Gender StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 2.01Q2 | 1.57 0.91 down from 2019 | 193 | 17% | — | ||
23Journal of Sport and Social IssuesSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.98Q2 | 2.36 0.66 down from 2019 | 82 | 28% | $3,650 | ||
24Women s Studies International ForumElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.93Q2 | 2.28 0.54 up from 2019 | 253 | 19% | $3,666 | ||
25Sex EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.88Q2 | 3.01 0.98 up from 2019 | 164 | 33% | — | ||
26Gender and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.87Q2 | 1.70 0.28 up from 2019 | 201 | 26% | — | ||
27Sport Marketing QuarterlyUnited States | 1.84Q2 | 3.00 1.32 up from 2019 | 67 | 45% | — | ||
28NASPA Journal About Women In Higher EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.74Q2 | 1.33 0.12 down from 2019 | 40 | — | — | ||
29Equality Diversity and Inclusion An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.73Q2 | 1.89 0.68 up from 2019 | 190 | 27% | — | ||
30Women s Studies in CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.61Q2 | 1.57 0.50 up from 2019 | 108 | 2% | — | ||
31Communication & SportSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.52Q2 | 2.25 0.14 up from 2019 | 128 | 19% | $3,650 | ||
32Psychology of Men & MasculinityAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.49Q2 | 2.28 0.14 up from 2019 | 151 | 28% | — | ||
33Sociology of Sport JournalHuman Kinetics · United States | 1.49Q3 | 1.66 0.84 down from 2019 | 125 | 25% | — | ||
34American Journal of Men s HealthOASAGE Publishing · United States | 1.41Q3 | 3.30 0.91 up from 2019 | 338 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
35Australian Feminist StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.40Q3 | 1.11 0.25 down from 2019 | 104 | 33% | — | ||
36Gender Technology and DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · India | 1.39Q3 | 2.59 0.97 up from 2019 | 44 | 35% | — | ||
37Journal of Language and DiscriminationEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.31Q3 | 0.83 0.33 down from 2019 | 32 | 42% | — | ||
38Persona StudiesOADeakin University · Australia | 1.27Q3 | 2.25 1.25 up from 2019 | 33 | 100% | — | ||
39Critical Military StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.26Q3 | 0.78 1.37 down from 2019 | 96 | 46% | — | ||
40Review of Economics of the HouseholdSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.21Q3 | 1.70 0.70 up from 2019 | 112 | 50% | $3,390 | ||
41Masculinities & Social ChangeOAHipatia Press · Spain | 1.15Q3 | 1.10 0.17 up from 2019 | 64 | 100% | $431 | ||
42NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender ResearchRoutledge · United States | 1.11Q3 | 1.23 0.30 up from 2019 | 88 | 59% | — | ||
43Asian Journal of Women s StudiesTaylor & Francis · South Korea | 1.11Q3 | 1.22 0.80 up from 2019 | 92 | 5% | — | ||
44Journal of Language and SexualityJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.05Q3 | 1.88 1.13 up from 2019 | 36 | 9% | — | ||
45Journal for the Study of Sports and Athletes in EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.00Q3 | 0.79 0.10 up from 2019 | 41 | 14% | — | ||
46Journal of the National Medical AssociationElsevier BV · United States | 0.95Q3 | 2.16 0.73 up from 2019 | 236 | 24% | $3,160 | ||
47Sexuality & CultureSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.94Q3 | 1.42 0.26 up from 2019 | 278 | 23% | $3,190 | ||
48Soccer and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.89Q3 | 1.17 0.06 down from 2019 | 156 | 20% | — | ||
49Investigaciones FeministasOAComplutense University of Madrid · Spain | 0.88Q4 | 0.50 0.63 down from 2019 | 76 | 100% | — | ||
50China Population and Development StudiesSpringer Science+Business Media · China | 0.82Q4 | 1.26 0.87 up from 2019 | 48 | 13% | $3,890 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Gender Studies highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,333
- Education727
- Political Science and International Relations332
- Communication79
- Gender Studies64
- Safety Research55
- Health54
- Urban Studies52
- Public Administration51
- Linguistics and Language49
- Law48
- Transportation46
- Library and Information Sciences41
- Demography40
- Anthropology37
- Geography, Planning and Development33
- Cultural Studies8
- Development3
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2020. Corpus-wide, 86.1% 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 2017–2019, 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: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 64
- Window papers (baseline)
- 41,139 +19.4% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 1.49 +0.2% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 4
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2017–2019 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.