Frontiers A Journal of Women Studies

Frontiers A Journal of Women Studies is published by The Forum on Education Abroad and is in Zone 4 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Latin American and Latino Studies, Race, History, and American Society and Historical Gender and Feminism Studies, together about 34% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Founded in 1994, Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad is an open-access, peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes the latest research and scholarship on higher education abroad and student mobility in order to advance our understanding as a field and encourage critical reflection that impacts practice. For our purposes, we define education abroad as: “education including, but not limited to enrollment in courses, experiential learning, internships, service learning, and other activities which occurs outside the participant’s home country [or] the country in which they are enrolled as a student” (The Forum on Education Abroad, 2020). This definition refers to programming that may also be labeled “study abroad” or “[short-term] student mobility,” or “international [student] exchange” (Dietrich & Besana, 2024), as well as blended or hybrid learning experiences that pair mobility components with online learning or virtual exchange. We welcome research and scholarship on education abroad programming happening in any country and educating learners from any country in the world, as well as explorations of the field and the practice at large which extend beyond scholarship on student learning and development outcomes, including outcomes for educators or communities, and critical examinations of the practice. Frontiers welcomes studies and conceptual scholarly articles informed by various theoretical perspectives and disciplinary and interdisciplinary lenses. We encourage scholars, practitioners, practitioner-scholars, educators, researchers, and policymakers from all world regions and at all stages of their career to submit their work to our journal. To learn more about the history of Frontiers, click here. Visit our Policy Library for more information on the policies and procedures that guide Frontiers. Open Access StatementFrontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad is a platinum open access journal. All articles are available on the internet to all users immediately upon publication and at no cost to readers or authors. Open access is beneficial to authors and readers because it offers: Free, immediate access to readers and researchers around the world Increased visibility and readership Fast publication Open length limits (5,000 to 10,000 words preferred) All accepted manuscripts are published online under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License. Authors retain the copyright to

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): WOMENS STUDIES

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SSCILetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

0.31LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

55OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

343OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.33OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

9.41%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

36LetPub · 2026-09-13

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Average review time (community reports)

about 45 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewLetPub

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

The Forum on Education Abroad

Country or region

United States

Language

English

ISSN

0160-9009

Print ISSN

1085-4568

Electronic ISSN

2380-8144

Official links

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