Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Gender Studies journal rankings 2023
66 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Gender Studies has 66 ranked journals in 2023. The median OJR fell 0.07 on 2022 to 1.23, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.89. The top three are Gender & Society, The Leadership Quarterly, and Gender Work and Organization.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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)
66 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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1Gender & SocietySAGE Publishing · United States | 5.53Q1 | 9.00 1.89 up from 2022 | 103 | 27% | $3,900 | ||
2The Leadership QuarterlyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 4.78Q1 | 9.98 0.24 up from 2022 | 131 | 38% | $4,330 | ||
3Gender Work and OrganizationWiley · United Kingdom | 4.30Q1 | 4.51 3.43 down from 2022 | 485 | 83% | $4,880 | ||
4Review of Economics of the HouseholdSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.44Q1 | 5.46 2.32 down from 2022 | 150 | 53% | $3,390 | ||
5Feminist EconomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.34Q1 | 5.18 1.42 down from 2022 | 115 | 47% | — | ||
6Gender in Management An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.91Q1 | 3.44 2.31 down from 2022 | 178 | 36% | — | ||
7Politics & GenderCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 2.86Q1 | 2.89 1.97 down from 2022 | 149 | 58% | $3,550 | ||
8European Journal of Cultural StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.50Q1 | 2.46 1.31 down from 2022 | 240 | 77% | $3,650 | ||
9Sex RolesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.43Q1 | 3.73 0.55 down from 2022 | 231 | 55% | $3,190 | ||
10Men and MasculinitiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.41Q1 | 3.69 1.23 up from 2022 | 85 | 39% | $3,650 | ||
11Communication & SportSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.40Q1 | 3.64 0.43 up from 2022 | 137 | 38% | $3,650 | ||
12Social Politics International Studies in Gender State & SocietyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.18Q1 | 2.27 0.07 up from 2022 | 140 | 51% | $3,631 | ||
13Feminist TheorySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 2.68 1.07 up from 2022 | 112 | 62% | $3,650 | ||
14Journal of Sport ManagementHuman Kinetics · United States | 1.96Q1 | 2.30 0.61 up from 2022 | 207 | 34% | — | ||
15Gender IssuesSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.95Q1 | 2.61 0.21 up from 2022 | 60 | 38% | $2,390 | ||
16Journal of Sport and Social IssuesSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.90Q1 | 2.74 0.46 down from 2022 | 80 | 38% | $3,650 | ||
17Psychology of Women QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 2.89 0.84 down from 2022 | 112 | 36% | $3,900 | ||
18European Journal of Women s StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.85Q2 | 2.34 0.59 up from 2022 | 116 | 57% | $3,650 | ||
19Gender Technology and DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · India | 1.83Q2 | 2.20 0.97 down from 2022 | 72 | 41% | — | ||
19Equality Diversity and Inclusion An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.83Q2 | 2.74 0.42 down from 2022 | 186 | 33% | — | ||
21Feminist Media StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.80Q2 | 1.87 0.13 down from 2022 | 496 | 33% | — | ||
22Journal of Gender StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.80Q2 | 2.70 0.19 up from 2022 | 243 | 38% | — | ||
23NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender ResearchRoutledge · United States | 1.77Q2 | 1.33 1.32 down from 2022 | 80 | 82% | — | ||
24Gender and EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.72Q2 | 2.69 0.01 down from 2022 | 140 | 71% | — | ||
25Women s Studies International ForumElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.66Q2 | 2.44 0.05 up from 2022 | 175 | 44% | $3,666 | ||
26International Feminist Journal of PoliticsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.61Q2 | 2.43 0.40 up from 2022 | 127 | 50% | — | ||
27International Journal of Sport CommunicationHuman Kinetics · United States | 1.55Q2 | 2.55no change | 140 | 13% | — | ||
28Psychology of Men & MasculinityAmerican Psychological Association · United States | 1.51Q2 | 2.82 0.07 up from 2022 | 140 | 31% | — | ||
29Sexuality & CultureSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.43Q2 | 2.27 0.19 up from 2022 | 358 | 43% | $3,190 | ||
30Journal of Women Politics & PolicyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.37Q2 | 2.27 0.43 up from 2022 | 88 | 36% | — | ||
31Journal of Language and SexualityJohn Benjamins Publishing Company · Netherlands | 1.36Q2 | 1.88 0.25 up from 2022 | 44 | 19% | — | ||
32Women s Studies in CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.29Q2 | 1.34 0.46 up from 2022 | 108 | 10% | — | ||
33Journal of the National Medical AssociationElsevier BV · United States | 1.23Q2 | 2.01 1.30 down from 2022 | 310 | 31% | $3,160 | ||
34Sex EducationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.22Q3 | 2.07 0.66 down from 2022 | 170 | 54% | — | ||
35NORMARoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.19Q3 | 2.03 0.29 down from 2022 | 56 | 57% | — | ||
36Sport Marketing QuarterlyUnited States | 1.19Q3 | 2.24 0.54 up from 2022 | 78 | 100% | — | ||
37Journal of Language and DiscriminationEquinox Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.18Q3 | 1.46 1.03 up from 2022 | 38 | 67% | — | ||
38American Journal of Men s HealthOASAGE Publishing · United States | 1.15Q3 | 2.90 0.19 down from 2022 | 343 | 100% | $2,650 | ||
39Feminism & PsychologySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.14Q3 | 2.45 0.03 up from 2022 | 95 | 56% | $3,900 | ||
40Sociology of Sport JournalHuman Kinetics · United States | 1.06Q3 | 2.42 1.00 up from 2022 | 147 | 49% | — | ||
41Critical Military StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.01Q3 | 0.94 0.51 down from 2022 | 74 | 54% | — | ||
42Journal of Women and Gender in Higher EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.99Q3 | 1.45 0.45 up from 2022 | 54 | 21% | — | ||
43Asian Journal of Women s StudiesTaylor & Francis · South Korea | 0.98Q3 | 1.29 0.05 down from 2022 | 87 | 13% | — | ||
44Sport Management Education JournalHuman Kinetics · United States | 0.94Q3 | 1.85 0.09 up from 2022 | 65 | 17% | — | ||
45Australian Feminist StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.93Q3 | 1.12 0.05 up from 2022 | 84 | 77% | — | ||
46Celebrity StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.90Q3 | 0.65 0.92 down from 2022 | 145 | 44% | — | ||
47The Journal of Men s StudiesSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.89Q3 | 1.96 0.62 up from 2022 | 67 | 75% | $3,400 | ||
48Soccer and SocietyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.87Q3 | 1.16 0.40 down from 2022 | 218 | 54% | — | ||
49Investigaciones FeministasOAComplutense University of Madrid · Spain | 0.85Q3 | 1.10 0.01 down from 2022 | 132 | 100% | — | ||
50Masculinities & Social ChangeOAHipatia Press · Spain | 0.83Q3 | 1.74 1.20 up from 2022 | 38 | 100% | $431 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Gender Studies highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,403
- Education732
- Political Science and International Relations334
- Communication73
- Gender Studies66
- Safety Research59
- Health55
- Transportation53
- Public Administration52
- Urban Studies52
- Linguistics and Language49
- Law45
- Library and Information Sciences41
- Demography40
- Anthropology38
- Geography, Planning and Development33
- Cultural Studies9
- Development4
- General Social Sciences4
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Life-span and Life-course Studies1
- Archeology0
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
11 additional Gender Studies journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 66
- Window papers (baseline)
- 50,970 +23.9% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 1.23 -17.5% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 4
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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.