Journal of Lesbian Studies

ISSN 1089-4160 · Taylor & Francis · United States · active 1968–2026

Metrics

Scimago quartile
Q2
Cites per paper (2y)
1.6
SJR
0.578
h-index
49

“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric. Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline.

Indexing & access

ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed

Access status: unknown. Where this comes from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic — confirm on the journal’s own site, especially regarding any article processing charge.

Scope

lgbtqhealthidentitypolicysocialpsychologyafricansexualitiesissuessociologypoliticalgender

Frequently asked

Is Journal of Lesbian Studies a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag Journal of Lesbian Studies. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, which is a positive signal.

Is Journal of Lesbian Studies indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, Journal of Lesbian Studies appears in: Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

What is Journal of Lesbian Studies's impact?

Papers in Journal of Lesbian Studies are cited about 1.6 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q2, with an h-index of 49. This is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric — and a citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

Is Journal of Lesbian Studies open access?

We hold no reliable open-access classification for Journal of Lesbian Studies. Check the journal's own site for its access model and any article processing charge.

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