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Transgender Studies Quarterly is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.9), WoS ESCI. Published by Duke University Press.
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ISSN 2328-9252Verify ISSN ↗2328-9260Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Duke University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | 130 / 1434 | 90th | Q1 |
| Gender Studies | 63 / 233 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.9.
Transgender Studies Quarterly is Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 130 of 1434) and Q2 in Gender Studies (rank 63 of 233), by CiteScore 2025.
Transgender Studies Quarterly 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 2.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.974, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 21.
Transgender Studies Quarterly is published by Duke University Press. Its print ISSN is 2328-9252 and its online ISSN is 2328-9260.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Transgender Studies Quarterly has an h-index of 49 and a 2-year mean of 0.6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #346 of 1,309 Scopus journals in Cultural Studies.
Transgender Studies Quarterly published 50 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 72. 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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