Journal profile · SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY
TSQ-Transgender Studies Quarterly
ISSN 2328-9252 · eISSN 2328-9260 · Duke University Press
TSQ-Transgender Studies Quarterly: CAS Zone 3 · Sociology (2025 upgraded edition); subscription journal; 50 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
TSQ-Transgender Studies Quarterly is published by Duke University Press and is in Zone 3 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Gender and Feminist Studies, LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy and Gender, Sexuality, and Education, together about 74% of its articles. Its main subfields are Gender Studies. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Over the past two decades, transgender studies has become fertile ground for new approaches to cultural analysis. TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly offers a high-profile venue for innovative research and scholarship that contest the objectification, pathologization, and exoticization of transgender lives. It publishes interdisciplinary work that explores the diversity of gender, sex, sexuality, embodiment, and identity in ways that have not been adequately addressed by feminist and queer scholarship. Its mission is to foster a vigorous conversation among scholars, artists, activists, and others that examines how “transgender” comes into play as a category, a process, a social assemblage, an increasingly intelligible gender identity, an identifiable threat to gender normativity, and a rubric for understanding the variability and contingency of gender across time, space, and cultures. Major topics addressed in the first few issues include the cultural production of trans communities, critical analysis of transgender population studies, transgender biopolitics, radical critiques of political economy, and problems of translating gender concepts and practices across linguistic communities. Duke University Press gratefully acknowledges the Clayman Institute for Gender Research’s sponsorship and hosting of the TSQ editorial office as well as the TEN:TACLES Initiative for its financial support.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Gender and Feminist StudiesSocial Sciences37.5%
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and PolicyPsychology24.6%
- Gender, Sexuality, and EducationSocial Sciences11.8%
- Feminist Theory and Gender StudiesSocial Sciences2.9%
- Posthumanist Ethics and ActivismSocial Sciences2.2%
- Gender, Feminism, and MediaSocial Sciences1.9%
- Short Stories in Global LiteratureArts and Humanities1.7%
- Art, Politics, and ModernismArts and Humanities1.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Sociology Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Sociology Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Sociology | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary | Zone 2 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Studies | Q1 | 130/1434 | 90th |
| Gender Studies | Q2 | 63/233 | 73rd |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.9LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.97LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 2.08LetPub ·
- h-index
- 49OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 263OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.58OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 20%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0.93%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 38LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 816 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 42 | 4 | 1,059 |
| 2025 | 50 | 8 | 1,413 |
| 2024 | 45 | 4 | 1,526 |
| 2023 | 50 | 9 | 1,381 |
| 2022 | 59 | 5 | 1,350 |
| 2021 | 59 | 8 | 1,685 |
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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- ISSN
- 2328-9252
- Electronic ISSN
- 2328-9260
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 13, Issue 2 (May 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about TSQ-Transgender Studies Quarterly
What CAS zone is TSQ-Transgender Studies Quarterly in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, TSQ-Transgender Studies Quarterly is in Zone 3 of Sociology, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Sociology. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
Which databases index TSQ-Transgender Studies Quarterly?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, TSQ-Transgender Studies Quarterly is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is TSQ-Transgender Studies Quarterly open access, and what is the APC?
TSQ-Transgender Studies Quarterly is a subscription journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .