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Sexuality, Gender and Policy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.2). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 2639-5355Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$3,300 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 347 / 1434 | 75th | Q1 |
| Gender Studies | 115 / 233 | 50th | Q2 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 408 / 744 | 45th | Q3 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 411 / 745 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present (also 2017), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.2.
Sexuality, Gender and Policy is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 347 of 1434), Q2 in Gender Studies (rank 115 of 233) and Q3 in Social Sciences (miscellaneous) (rank 408 of 744), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Sexuality, Gender and Policy is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q1, 75th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.300, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 7.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,300 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.
Sexuality, Gender and Policy is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its ISSN is 2639-5355.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Sexuality, Gender and Policy has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #277 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Sexuality, Gender and Policy published 50 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 93 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (21.7%), United States (11.1%) and Indonesia (8.1%).
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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