Home›Search›Girlhood Studies

Girlhood Studies

Berghahn Books Inc. · United States · Est. 2008

ISSN1938-8209eISSN1938-8322

SJR Q2✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.262

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.53

Total Worksi

551

Total Citationsi

2,795

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.13

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary; Gender Studies; Education; Sociology and Political Science; Developmental and Educational Psychology; Life-span and Life-course Studies; Social Psychology.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2008

Annual Volume~ 33 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications551

Publisher OrgBerghahn Books

Visit Journal Website

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

6/11 · 55%

✅

Do you know the journal / publisher?

Berghahn Books Inc.

✅

Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

✅

Is the ISSN verified?

1938-8209 / 1938-8322

✅

Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

❌

Peer review process documented?

N/A

❌

Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

✅

Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

❌

Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

❌

Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

❌

Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

✅

Primary language documented?

English

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

167

2019

238

2020

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 StudiesQ2

EducationQ3

Sociology and Political ScienceQ3

Developmental and Educational PsychologyQ4

Life-span and Life-course StudiesQ4

Social PsychologyQ4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary

Scopus Categories

Gender StudiesDevelopmental and Educational PsychologySociology and Political ScienceSocial PsychologyLife-span and Life-course StudiesEducation

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Gender, Feminism, and MediaGender Roles and Identity StudiesYouth Education and Societal DynamicsChildren's Rights and ParticipationMedia, Gender, and AdvertisingThemes in Literature AnalysisParticipatory Visual Research MethodsHistorical Gender and Feminism StudiesCritical Race Theory in EducationPoverty, Education, and Child Welfare

Frequently asked questions about Girlhood Studies

Is Girlhood Studies a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Girlhood Studies: it is indexed in Web of Science, 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 Girlhood Studies?

Girlhood Studies is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.13.

Is Girlhood Studies indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Girlhood Studies is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.