Gender, Work and Organization (GWO) is a highly reputed journal specializing in gender and development‐based research. In 2018, the journal celebrated its 25th anniversary, presenting the perfect opportunity to conduct a retrospective analysis of its content. Using bibliometric analysis on the GWO documents retrieved from the Scopus database, this study documents evidence of the research activities of the journal between 1994 and 2018. The article reports its publication and citation structure, leading trends and its increasing drive towards co‐authorship. It also identifies the most prominent topics, prolific articles and authors, and discusses the impact of the state of collaboration among the various GWO scholars. The study also maps the intellectual structure of the scholar network in the journal and finds the most influential scholars and leading institutions to be the most central in the collaboration network. The findings of the research include implications for researchers, practitioners and policymakers.