Romani Studies

Aims & Scope

Founded in 1888, the Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society was published in four series up to 1982.

In 2000, the journal became Romani Studies.

On behalf of the Gypsy Lore Society, Romani Studies features articles on many different communities which, regardless of their origins and self-appellations in various languages, have been referred to in English as Gypsies.

These communities include the descendants of migrants from the Indian subcontinent which have been considered as falling into three large subdivisions, Dom, Lom, and Rom.

The field has also included communities of other origins which practice, or in the past have practiced, a specific type of service nomadism.

The journal publishes articles in history, anthropology, ethnography, sociology, linguistics, art, literature, folklore and music, as well as reviews of books and audiovisual materials.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.4

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.138

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	11

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	25492

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	9

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Abstracting & Indexing

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

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Subjects & Keywords

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

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Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

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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.

• 'Gypsy Invasion': A critical analysis of newspaper reaction to Czech and Slovak Romani asylum-seekers in Britain, 1997

  Citation: 37

  Authors: Colin, Elaine

• Bringing hybridity to heterogeneity in Romani Studies

  Citation: 33

  Authors: Annabel

• "A stinking filthy race of people inbred with criminality" A discourse analysis of prejudicial talk about Gypsies in discussion forums

  Citation: 20

  Authors: Lottie, Simon

• The Romanization of poverty: Spatial stigmatization of Roma neighborhoods in Turkey

  Citation: 20

  Authors: BaÅŸak, Mehmet Baki, Mehmet

• Romani Migration in the 1990s: Perspectives on Dynamic, Interpretation and Policy

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Eva

• Neither Muslims nor Zimmis: The Gypsies (Roma) in the Ottoman State

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Eyal

• Becoming <i>Rom</i> (male), becoming <i>Romni</i> (female) among Romanian Cortorari Roma: On body and gender

  Citation: 17

  Authors: Cătălina

• Romaphobia: A unique phenomenon?

  Citation: 17

  Authors: Vanja, Paul, Henk, Mitch

• Assimilation, invisibility, and the eugenic turn in the "Gypsy question" in Romanian society, 1938–1942

  Citation: 17

  Authors: M. Benjamin

• Nothing about us without us, or the dangers of a closed-society research paradigm

  Citation: 16

  Authors: Michael

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