Signs

Aims & Scope

Recognized as the leading international journal in women’s studies, Signs is at the forefront of new directions in feminist scholarship.

The journal publishes pathbreaking articles, review essays, comparative perspectives, and retrospectives of interdisciplinary interest addressing gender, race, culture, class, nation, and sexuality.

Special issue and section topics cover a broad range of geopolitical processes, conditions, and effects; cultural and social configurations; and scholarly and theoretical developments.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.9
2024	1.70

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.917

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	89

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	5543

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	288

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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 Arts and Humanities 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.

• Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter

  Citation: 4251

  Authors: Karen

• The Complexity of Intersectionality

  Citation: 3981

  Authors: Leslie

• Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies: Theory, Applications, and Praxis

  Citation: 2448

  Authors: Sumi, Kimberlé Williams, Leslie

• Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence

  Citation: 2158

  Authors: Adrienne

• The Laugh of the Medusa

  Citation: 1004

  Authors: Hélène, Keith, Paula

• From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor

  Citation: 999

  Authors: Evelyn Nakano

• Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of a Black Feminist Ideology

  Citation: 973

  Authors: Deborah K.

• “Under Western Eyes” Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles

  Citation: 806

  Authors: Chandra Talpade

• The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles

  Citation: 748

  Authors: Emily

• Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals

  Citation: 747

  Authors: Carol

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