Journals whose output is mostly gender and women’s studies: feminist theory, gender and politics, masculinities, gender and education, and population studies of gender. All 47 journals are ranked by the 2026 Journal Metrics Score, with each journal's quartile in gender studies and its h-index.
Updated August 2026 · 2-year citation average from OpenAlex data
Citation averages are modest across the field, so the quartile tells you more than small differences in score.
| Rank | Journal | 2026 score | Quartile | h-index | Publisher | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | European Journal of Population-Revue Europeenne de Demographie | 3.6 | Q1 | 92 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 2 | SEX ROLES | 3.3 | Q1 | 210 | Springer Science+Business Media | United States |
| 3 | DEMOGRAPHY | 2.5 | Q1 | 227 | Springer Science+Business Media | United States |
| 4 | GENDER AND EDUCATION | 2.5 | Q1 | 102 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 5 | European Journal of Politics and Gender | 2.4 | Q1 | 31 | – | United Kingdom |
| 6 | Men and Masculinities | 2.2 | Q2 | 90 | SAGE Publishing | United Kingdom |
| 7 | International Feminist Journal of Politics | 2.1 | Q2 | 75 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 8 | WOMENS STUDIES INTERNATIONAL FORUM | 2.0 | Q2 | 125 | Elsevier BV | United Kingdom |
| 9 | Feminist Media Studies | 1.9 | Q2 | 85 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 10 | Feminist Theory | 1.9 | Q2 | 68 | SAGE Publishing | United Kingdom |
| 11 | Sex Education-Sexuality Society and Learning | 1.9 | Q2 | 71 | Taylor & Francis | United Kingdom |
| 12 | Gender Issues | 1.8 | Q2 | 52 | Springer Science+Business Media | United States |
| 13 | Politics & Gender | 1.8 | Q2 | 86 | Cambridge University Press | United Kingdom |
| 14 | JOURNAL OF GENDER STUDIES | 1.7 | Q2 | 74 | Routledge | United Kingdom |
| 15 | PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN QUARTERLY | 1.7 | Q2 | 172 | SAGE Publishing | United Kingdom |
| 16 | FEMINISM & PSYCHOLOGY | 1.6 | Q2 | 88 | SAGE Publishing | United Kingdom |
| 17 | Hypatia-A Journal of Feminist Philosophy | 1.5 | Q2 | 115 | Cambridge University Press | United States |
| 18 | International Journal of LGBTQ+ Youth Studies | 1.4 | Q2 | 6 | Taylor & Francis | – |
| 19 | Journal of Women Politics & Policy | 1.4 | Q2 | 58 | Taylor & Francis | United States |
| 20 | NORA-Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research | 1.4 | Q2 | 47 | Routledge | United States |
| 21 | Journal of Gender-Based Violence | 1.3 | Q3 | 24 | Policy Press | United Kingdom |
| 22 | SOCIAL POLITICS | 1.3 | Q3 | 86 | Oxford University Press | United Kingdom |
| 23 | Journal of Demographic Economics | 1.2 | Q3 | 24 | Cambridge University Press | United Kingdom |
| 24 | Celebrity Studies | 1.1 | Q3 | 37 | Routledge | United Kingdom |
| 25 | FEMINIST REVIEW | 1.1 | Q3 | 122 | SAGE Publishing | United Kingdom |
| 26 | GENDER & SOCIETY | 1.1 | Q3 | 173 | SAGE Publishing | United States |
| 27 | NORMA | 1.1 | Q3 | 32 | Routledge | United Kingdom |
| 28 | QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SPEECH | 1.1 | – | 95 | Routledge | United States |
| 29 | AUSTRALIAN FEMINIST STUDIES | 1.0 | Q3 | 50 | Routledge | United Kingdom |
| 30 | Feminist Legal Studies | 0.9 | Q3 | 43 | Springer Science+Business Media | Netherlands |
| 31 | EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WOMENS STUDIES | 0.8 | Q3 | 69 | SAGE Publishing | United Kingdom |
| 32 | JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE FAMILY STUDIES | 0.7 | Q3 | 76 | University of Calgary Press | Canada |
| 33 | SIGNS | 0.7 | Q3 | 161 | University of Chicago Press | United States |
| 34 | Womens Studies in Communication | 0.7 | Q3 | 44 | Taylor & Francis | United States |
| 35 | Asian Women | 0.5 | Q4 | 20 | Sookmyung Women's University | South Korea |
| 36 | Journal of Feminist Scholarship | 0.5 | Q4 | 7 | University of Massachusetts Dartmouth | United States |
| 37 | MCS-Masculinities and Social Change | 0.5 | Q4 | 22 | Hipatia Press | Spain |
| 38 | Australian Feminist Law Journal | 0.4 | Q4 | 23 | Routledge | Australia |
| 39 | Punto Genero | 0.4 | Q4 | 11 | – | – |
| 40 | Atlantis-Critical Studies in Gender Culture & Social Justice | 0.3 | Q4 | 17 | – | – |
| 41 | Journal of Popular Television | 0.3 | Q4 | 15 | Intellect | United Kingdom |
| 42 | Boyhood Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal | 0.2 | Q4 | 15 | Berghahn Books | United States |
| 43 | Girlhood Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal | 0.2 | Q4 | 23 | Berghahn Books | United States |
| 44 | Investigaciones Feministas | 0.2 | Q4 | 22 | Complutense University of Madrid | Spain |
| 45 | Film Fashion & Consumption | 0.0 | Q4 | 9 | Intellect | United Kingdom |
| 46 | JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE | 0.0 | Q4 | 72 | Wiley | United Kingdom |
| 47 | Journal of Radiosurgery and SBRT | 0.0 | Q4 | 0 | – | – |
Most gender studies journals on this list are published in United Kingdom (23), United States (13), Netherlands (2), Spain (2), Australia (1).
By the 2026 Journal Metrics Score, the five highest-ranked gender studies journals are European Journal of Population-Revue Europeenne de Demographie, SEX ROLES, DEMOGRAPHY, GENDER AND EDUCATION, European Journal of Politics and Gender. The score is a two-year citation average, so check each journal's scope and article types before choosing where to submit.
5 of the 47 gender studies journals on this page are Q1, meaning they rank in the top quarter of their OpenAlex subfield by score. 15 are Q2, 13 are Q3 and 13 are Q4.
A journal is included when at least two of its four main OpenAlex research topics are classified under Gender Studies. Journals are ordered by the 2026 Journal Metrics Score: citations received in the latest complete year to works published in the two years before, divided by the number of those works. Quartiles compare each journal with every journal in the same subfield.