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Indian Journal of Gender Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.9), ABDC C, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Sage Publications.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0971-5215Verify ISSN ↗0973-0672Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sage Publications
Cost to publish: About US$3,650 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 437 / 1434 | 69th | Q2 |
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 272 / 692 | 60th | Q2 |
| Gender Studies | 131 / 233 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Health (social science) | 294 / 387 | 24th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1994–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.9.
Indian Journal of Gender Studies is Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 437 of 1434), Q2 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 272 of 692) and Q3 in Gender Studies (rank 131 of 233), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Indian Journal of Gender Studies is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.204, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 30.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,650 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Indian Journal of Gender Studies is published by Sage Publications. Its print ISSN is 0971-5215 and its online ISSN is 0973-0672.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Indian Journal of Gender Studies has an h-index of 36 and a 2-year mean of 0.38 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #487 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Indian Journal of Gender Studies published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 52. 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.
In its latest 92 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from India (75%), United States (7.6%) and United Kingdom (4.3%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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