Fat Studies

Aims & Scope

Fat Studies is the first academic journal in the field of scholarship that critically examines theory, research, practices, and programs related to body weight and appearance.

Content includes original research and overviews exploring the intersection of gender, race/ethnicity, sexuality, age, ability, and socioeconomic status.

Articles critically examine representations of fat in health and medical sciences, the Health at Every Size model, the pharmaceutical industry, psychology, sociology, cultural studies, legal issues, literature, pedagogy, art, theater, popular culture, media studies, and activism.

Fat Studies advocates equality for all people regardless of body size.

It explores the way fat people are oppressed, the reasons why, who benefits from that oppression and how to liberate fat people from oppression.

Fat Studies seeks to challenge and remove the negative associations that society has about fat and the fat body.

It regards weight, like height, as a human characteristic that varies widely across any population.

Fat Studies is similar to academic disciplines that focus on race, ethnicity, gender, or age.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.2
2024	0.80

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.435

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	22

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	12977

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	128

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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 Nursing, 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.

• Sizeism is a health hazard

  Citation: 77

  Authors: Joan C., Angela

• Digital media and body weight, shape, and size: An introduction and review

  Citation: 67

  Authors: Deborah

• Mother Blame, Fat Shame, and Moral Panic: “Obesity” and Child Welfare

  Citation: 44

  Authors: May

• Human Rights Casualties from the “War on Obesity”: Why Focusing on Body Weight Is Inconsistent with a Human Rights Approach to Health

  Citation: 43

  Authors: Lily, Jane

• Yes, We Can (No, You Can’t): Weight Stigma, Exercise Self-Efficacy, and Active Fat Identity Development

  Citation: 42

  Authors: Angela, Andrea E.

• Wombs at risk, wombs as risk: Fat women’s experiences of reproductive care

  Citation: 42

  Authors: Deborah, Andrea, Pamela, Jill

• From Theory to Policy: Reducing Harms Associated with the Weight-Centered Health Paradigm

  Citation: 38

  Authors: Caitlin, Judith

• Mapping the circulation of fat hatred

  Citation: 37

  Authors: Jen, Carla, Crystal, Emma

• Fat Shame to Fat Pride: Fat Women's Sexual and Dating Experiences

  Citation: 37

  Authors: Jeannine A.

• Exercising exclusions: Space, visibility, and monitoring of the exercising fat female body

  Citation: 36

  Authors: Hannele

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