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Journal of Homosexuality is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.5), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0091-8369Verify ISSN ↗1540-3602Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gender Studies | 16 / 233 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Education | 276 / 1698 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Social Psychology | 69 / 315 | 78th | Q1 |
| Psychology (all) | 49 / 220 | 77th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1976–present (also 1974), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.5.
Journal of Homosexuality is Q1 in Gender Studies (rank 16 of 233), Q1 in Education (rank 276 of 1698) and Q1 in Social Psychology (rank 69 of 315), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Homosexuality 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 5.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.857, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 101.
Journal of Homosexuality is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0091-8369 and its online ISSN is 1540-3602.
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Homosexuality has an h-index of 134 and a 2-year mean of 1.67 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #37 of 225 Scopus journals in Gender Studies.
Journal of Homosexuality published 185 papers in 2025. 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (22%), Australia (10.5%) and Canada (7.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (1 per 1,000 papers). 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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