Women's Studies International Forum

Aims & Scope

Women's Studies International Forum (formerly Women's Studies International Quarterly, established in 1978) is a bimonthly journal to aid the distribution and exchange of feminist research in the multidisciplinary, international area of women's studies and in feminist research in other disciplines.

The policy of the journal is to establish a feminist forum for discussion and debate.

The journal seeks to critique and reconceptualize existing knowledge, to examine and re-evaluate the manner in which knowledge is produced and distributed, and to assess the implications this has for women's lives.

We seek contributions from people, individually or collectively, from different countries and different backgrounds, who are engaged in feminist research inside or outside formal educational institutions.

We welcome a variety of approaches and resources through the whole range of disciplines: papers geared toward action-oriented research as well as those which address theoretical methodological issues; and we encourage historical reassessments of the lives and works of women.

We urge all contributors both to acknowledge the cultural and social specifics of their particular approach, and to draw out these issues in their articles.

We also invite conference reports and announcements, calls for papers, notices of new publications and reports, contacts, etc., sent in by individuals or groups in the international feminist community.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.9

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.557

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	77

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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 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.

• Can there be a feminist ethnography?

  Citation: 657

  Authors: Judith

• Focus groups in feminist research

  Citation: 339

  Authors: Sue

• Digital gender divide or technologically empowered women in developing countries? A typical case of lies, damned lies, and statistics

  Citation: 312

  Authors: Martin

• Have we got a theory for you! Feminist theory, cultural imperialism and the demand for ‘the woman's voice’

  Citation: 294

  Authors: María C., Elizabeth V., María C., Elizabeth V.

• The technology question in feminism

  Citation: 284

  Authors: Wendy

• Objectivity and truth: Problems in doing feminist research

  Citation: 225

  Authors: Joan, Kate, Joke

• Motherhood as a national mission: The construction of womanhood in the legal discourse in Israel

  Citation: 220

  Authors: Nitza

• The ‘politics of intimate’ at the intersection of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism in contemporary Turkey

  Citation: 213

  Authors: Feride, Gülbanu

• Mothers' experiences with intensive parenting and brain development discourse

  Citation: 207

  Authors: Glenda

• Negotiating diasporic identities

  Citation: 206

  Authors: Claire

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