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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Duke University Press.
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Publisher: Duke University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 576 / 1936 | 70th | Q2 |
| Cultural Studies | 613 / 1434 | 57th | Q2 |
| Gender Studies | 158 / 233 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1118 / 1530 | 26th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies is Q2 in History (rank 576 of 1936), Q2 in Cultural Studies (rank 613 of 1434) and Q3 in Gender Studies (rank 158 of 233), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Middle East Women's 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.174, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 18.
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies is published by Duke University Press. Its print ISSN is 1552-5864 and its online ISSN is 1558-9579.
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 Middle East Women's Studies has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 0.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #667 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies published 37 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 58. 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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