Women's Studies (journal)

Women's Studies

Discipline	Women's studies
Language	English
Edited  by	Wendy Martin
Publication details
History	1972–present
Publisher	Taylor & Francis
Frequency	8/year
Open access	Hybrid
Impact factor	0.3 (2023)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Women's Stud.
Indexing CODEN (alt  · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR  · NLM (alt) · Scopus  · W&L
ISSN	0049-7878  (print) 1547-7045  (web)
LCCN	74641303
OCLC  no.	01791887
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Women's Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal of women's studies. The journal has been edited by Wendy Martin (Claremont Graduate University) since its establishement in 1972, and is published 8 times per year. ^[1] It was originally published by Gordon and Breach Science Publishers until 1999, briefly by Harwood Academic (2000–2001), and from 2002 onwards by Taylor and Francis. ^{[1] [2]}

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is indexed and abstracted in the following bibliographic databases: ^{[3] [4]}

• Abstracts in Anthropology
• America: History and Life
• Arts and Humanities Citation Index
• Communication Abstracts
• Current Contents/Arts & Humanities
• ERIH/Gender Studies
• Family Studies Abstracts
• Film Literature Index
• H.W. Wilson Humanities Index & Social Sciences Retrospective
• H.W. Wilson Humanities Index Retrospective
• H.W. Wilson Humanities Index/Abstracts
• Historical Abstracts
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
• MLA International Bibliography
• Sociological Abstracts
• Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts
• The Expanded Academic Index
• Women's Studies Abstracts

According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 0.3. ^[5] According to Scopus, the journal has a CiteScore of 0.4, ranking 84 out of 173 in the category 'General Arts and Humanities', 159 out of 213 in the category 'Gender Studies', and 220 out of 275, in the category 'General Social Sciences'. ^[6]

References

1. Martin, Wendy (January 1972). "Editorial: Why women's studies?". Women's Studies. 1 (1): 1–2. doi:10.1080/00497878.1972.9978295.
2. "Full Record: Women's Studies". Library of Congress Catalog. Retrieved 2025-04-14.
3. "Women's Studies". MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals . University of Barcelona . Retrieved 2025-04-14.
4. "Learn about Women's Studies". Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 14 April 2025.
5. "Women's Studies". 2023 Journal Citation Reports . Clarivate Analytics. 2024.
6. "Source details: Women's Studies". Scopus preview. Elsevier . Retrieved 2025-04-14.

External links

• Official website