Boyhood Studies

Aims & Scope

Boyhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal is a peer-reviewed journal providing a forum for the discussion of boyhood, young masculinities, and boys’ lives by exploring the full scale of intricacies, challenges, and legacies that inform male and masculine developments.

Boyhood Studies is committed to a critical and international scope and solicits both articles and special issue proposals from a variety of research fields including, but not limited to, the social and psychological sciences, historical and cultural studies, philosophy, and social, legal, and health studies.

One of the core missions of the journal is to initiate conversation across disciplines, research angles, and intellectual viewpoints.

Both theoretical and empirical contributions fit the journal’s scope with critical literature reviews and review essays also welcomed.

Possible topics include boyish and tomboyish genders; boys and schooling; boys and (post)feminisms; the folklore, mythology, and poetics of “male development”; son-parent and male student-teacher relations; young masculinities in the digital and postdigital ages; young sexualities; as well as representations of boyhoods across temporalities, geographies, and cultures.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	<0.1
2024	0.30

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.125

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	26786

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	7

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Psychology and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• A Social Negotiation of Hope: Male West African Youth, ‘Waithood’ and the Pursuit of Social Becoming Through Football

  Citation: 44

  Authors: Christian, James

• Challenging Dominant Representations of Marginalized Boys and Men in Critical Studies on Men and Masculinities

  Citation: 42

  Authors: Steven, Karla

• Are Male Role Models Really the Solution?

  Citation: 29

  Authors: Anna, Gareth, Michael R.M., Sandy, Martin, Brigid

• Adolescent Masculinity in an Age of Decreased Homohysteria

  Citation: 20

  Authors: Eric

• Educational Persistence in the Face of Violence

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Adrian H.

• "Boys in Power"

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Katrín, Jón Ingvar

• Becoming a Super-Masculine “Cool Guy”

  Citation: 14

  Authors: James W.

• Democracy’s Children? Masculinities of Coloured Adolescents Awaiting Trial in Post-Apartheid Cape Town, South Africa

  Citation: 13

  Authors: Adam, Don

• Towards an Affirmative Feminist Boys Studies

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Timothy, Catherine, Liam, Shawna, Grace

• Rural Failures

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Susanna

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