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Women's Studies in Communication is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.2), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 0749-1409Verify ISSN ↗2152-999XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gender Studies | 79 / 233 | 66th | Q2 |
| Communication | 219 / 541 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1981–present (also 1977–1979), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.2.
Women's Studies in Communication is Q2 in Gender Studies (rank 79 of 233) and Q2 in Communication (rank 219 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Women's Studies in Communication 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.417, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 39.
Women's Studies in Communication is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0749-1409 and its online ISSN is 2152-999X.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Women's Studies in Communication has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 0.65 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #104 of 225 Scopus journals in Gender Studies.
Women's Studies in Communication published 47 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 51. 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 89 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (59.7%), India (8.4%) and Canada (5.4%). 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.
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