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Girlhood Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.8), WoS ESCI. Published by Berghahn Journals.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1938-8209Verify ISSN ↗1938-8322Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Berghahn Journals
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gender Studies | 140 / 233 | 40th | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 998 / 1530 | 34th | Q3 |
| Education | 1272 / 1698 | 25th | Q3 |
| Life-span and Life-course Studies | 50 / 61 | 18th | Q4 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 320 / 380 | 15th | Q4 |
| Social Psychology | 275 / 315 | 12th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.8.
Girlhood Studies is Q3 in Gender Studies (rank 140 of 233), Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 998 of 1530) and Q3 in Education (rank 1272 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Girlhood Studies is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 0.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 40th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.262, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 16.
Girlhood Studies is published by Berghahn Journals. Its print ISSN is 1938-8209 and its online ISSN is 1938-8322.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Girlhood Studies has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 0.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #175 of 225 Scopus journals in Gender Studies.
Girlhood Studies published 31 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 37. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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