Journal impact factor (expressed relative to the average for the discipline) is negatively correlated with <i>α</i>′. HolmanLuke MorandinClaire 2019 <p>The relationship is noisy (<i>R</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.043, Spearman correlation = -0.19), but the results indicate that journals with strong gender homophily tend to have lower impact factors than journals from the same discipline that have weaker homophily.</p>