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Women's Studies International Forum is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.7), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0277-5395Verify ISSN ↗1879-243XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,666 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 154 / 1162 | 86th | Q1 |
| Gender Studies | 46 / 233 | 80th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 336 / 1530 | 78th | Q1 |
| Education | 495 / 1698 | 70th | Q2 |
| Development | 106 / 314 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1982–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.7.
Women's Studies International Forum is Q1 in Law (rank 154 of 1162), Q1 in Gender Studies (rank 46 of 233) and Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 336 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Women's Studies International Forum 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 3.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.635, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 81.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,666 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.
Women's Studies International Forum is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0277-5395 and its online ISSN is 1879-243X.
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.
Women's Studies International Forum has an h-index of 125 and a 2-year mean of 2.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #111 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
Women's Studies International Forum published 189 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 89 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Türkiye (11.8%), China (9%) and United Kingdom (8.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.2 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.
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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