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Violence Against Women Template

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About the Violence Against Women format

Violence Against Women is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Intimate Partner and Family Violence, Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies, Sex work and related issues. Over its lifetime it has published 3,570 papers, which have received 115,340 citations.

PublisherSAGE
Reference styleAuthor–year (Harvard)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Violence Against Women, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inIntimate Partner and Family Violence Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies Sex work and related issues Child Abuse and Trauma Gender, Security, and Conflict
ISSN1077-8012
Citation impact (2-yr)1.43
h-index145
i10-index1,824
Top institutions publishing hereUniversity of Michigan
Journal websitevaw.sagepub.com
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Papers published in Violence Against Women per year

116
2014
133
2015
124
2016
56
2017
102
2018
138
2019
126
2020
190
2021
165
2022
227
2023
173
2024
255
2025

Citation impact of Violence Against Women by publication year

4.2K
2014
4.9K
2015
4.4K
2016
1.6K
2017
3.1K
2018
3.3K
2019
2.6K
2020
2.6K
2021
1.6K
2022
1.2K
2023
552
2024
175
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Violence Against Women

Violence Against Women

Lori Heise · 1 Jun 1998

This article encourages the widespread adoption of an integrated, ecological framework for understanding the origins of gender-based violence. An ecological approach to abuse conceptualizes violence as a multifaceted phenomenon grounded in an interplay among personal, situational, and sociocultural factors. Although drawing on the conceptual advances of earlier theorists, this article goes beyond their work in…

1,970 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Conflict and Control

Michael P. Johnson · 17 Oct 2006

Four types of individual partner violence are identified based on the dyadic control context of the violence. In intimate terrorism, the individual is violent and controlling, the partner is not. In violent resistance, the individual is violent but not controlling; the partner is the violent and controlling one. In situational couple violence, although the individual…

1,177 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Prevalence and Consequences of Male-to-female and Female-to-male Intimate Partner Violence as Measured by the National Violence Against Women Survey

Patricia Tjaden, Nancy Thoennes · 1 Feb 2000

Using data from a telephone survey of 8,000 U.S. men and 8,000 U.S. women, this study compares the prevalence and consequences of violence perpetrated against men and women by marital and opposite-sex cohabiting partners. The study found that married/cohabiting women reported significantly more intimate perpetrated rape, physical assault, and stalking than did married/cohabiting men, whether…

1,144 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Domestic Violence at the Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender

Natalie J. Sokoloff, Ida Dupont · 30 Dec 2004

This article provides a comprehensive review of the emerging domestic violence literature using a race, class, gender, sexual orientation intersectional analysis and structural framework fostered by women of color and their allies to understand the experiences and contexts of domestic violence for marginalized women in U.S. society. The first half of the article lays out…

Violence Against Immigrant Women

Anita Raj, Jay G. Silverman · 1 Mar 2002

Intimate partner violence against immigrant women is at epidemic proportions, but research has only recently begun to address the concern. A review of the legal, medical, and social science research literature reveals little data, but that which exist demonstrate that immigrant women's cultures, contexts, and legal status (a) increase vulnerability for abuse, (b) are used…

Violence Against Women template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the Violence Against Women format?
In DocuGuru you write your manuscript in a normal editor — no LaTeX setup required — and select the Violence Against Women template. When you export, DocuGuru compiles the paper into the official SAGE format and hands you a submission-ready PDF along with the editable LaTeX source.
What reference style does Violence Against Women use?
Violence Against Women uses Author–year (Harvard) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Violence Against Women, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
Do I need to know LaTeX to submit to Violence Against Women?
No. DocuGuru generates the sagej LaTeX class and compiles the PDF for you in the background, so you get a SAGE-ready Violence Against Women document without writing any LaTeX. If you do want it, the LaTeX source is included in the export.
Can I import an existing draft into the Violence Against Women template?
Yes. Paste or upload your current manuscript — Word, LaTeX, Markdown, or plain text — and DocuGuru reflows it into the Violence Against Women format with correct headings, figures, tables, and author–year citations.
What is Violence Against Women?
SAGE journal (sagej). It is a multidisciplinary journal, published by SAGE.
Can I export a submission-ready Violence Against Women PDF?
Yes — DocuGuru produces a PDF built with the official Violence Against Women template (the sagej class) that is ready to submit to SAGE, together with the matching LaTeX source files.
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