Sex Roles (journal)


Sex Roles is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer. Articles appearing in Sex Roles are written from a feminist perspective, and topics span gender role socialization, gendered perceptions and behaviors, gender stereotypes, body image, violence against women, gender issues in employment and work environments, sexual orientation and identity, and methodological issues in gender research. The Editor-in-Chief is Janice D. Yoder.

Abstracting and indexing

Sex Roles is abstracted/indexed in:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 1.954, ranking it 1st out of 41 journals in the category "Women's Studies" and 11th out of 62 journals in the category, "Social Psychology".

Controversies

In 2018 the journal was the target of a scholarly publishing sting, in which a hoax paper titled "An Ethnography of Breastaurant Masculinity: Themes of Objectification, Sexual Conquest, Male Control, and Masculine Toughness in a Sexually Objectifying Restaurant" was reviewed enthusiastically and accepted. The paper purported to have undertaken a two-year study involving “thematic analysis of table dialogue” to uncover the mystery of why heterosexual men like to eat at Hooters.