WSQ

Feminist Press at CUNY · United States · Est. 2008

ISSN1934-1520

SJR Q3✓ Scopus / SJR

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.191

H-Indexi

Total Worksi

1,225

Total Citationsi

7,886

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.23

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Gender Studies.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary Language—

1st Year Published2008

Annual Volume~ 68 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications1,225

Publisher OrgThe Feminist Press

Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

4/11 · 36%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Feminist Press at CUNY

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

1934-1520

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Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

N/A

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

174

2019

2020

237

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Gender StudiesQ3

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Gender Studies

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Race, History, and American SocietyLatin American and Latino StudiesGender, Feminism, and MediaHistorical Gender and Feminism StudiesFeminist Theory and Gender StudiesLGBTQ Health, Identity, and PolicyPosthumanist Ethics and ActivismArt, Politics, and ModernismPoetry Analysis and CriticismFashion and Cultural Textiles

Frequently asked questions about WSQ

Is WSQ a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for WSQ: it is indexed in Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of WSQ?

WSQ is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.191.

Is WSQ indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

WSQ is indexed in Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of WSQ?