As the official journal of the World Association for Sexual Health, the International Journal of Sexual Health promotes sexual health as a state of physical, emotional, mental, and social well-being through a positive approach to sexuality and sexual rights. The journal publishes peer-reviewed scientific papers, editorials, and reviews, using quantitative and qualitative methods, descriptive and critical analysis, instrument development, surveys, and case studies to examine the essential elements of this broad concept. Leading experts from around the world present original work that covers a variety of disciplines, including sexology, biology, medicine, psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, and religion.
Formerly titled the Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality, the International Journal of Sexual Health is dedicated to the basic understanding that sexual health is not merely the absence of disease, dysfunction, and infirmity, but also the presence of pleasurable and safe sexual enjoyment and satisfaction, free of coercion, discrimination, and violence. The journal examines sexual attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors, public policies and legislative issues, and a variety of sexual health problems, including the assessment and treatment of sexual dysfunctions and disorders, sexual abuse and violence, and sexually transmitted infections.
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Journal metrics
Usage
102K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
2.2 (2023) Impact Factor
Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
2.3 (2023) 5 year IF
3.0 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.823 (2023) SNIP
0.547 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
5 days avg. from submission to first
decision
56 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
14 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
11% acceptance rate
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and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated
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Usage:
the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users
of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the
nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles published in the
journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources
Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation
Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal
within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
Eli Coleman, PhD Professor Emeritus Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health Family Medicine and Community Health University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN
Associate Editor
JESSIE FORD, PhD , Assistant Professor, Department of Sociomedical Sciences , Columbia University, New York, New York
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Maria João Alvarez, PhD -Associate Professor, Program in Human Sexuality, Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon, Portugal Valerio Baćak -Assistant Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University Newark, NJ, USA Swagata Banik, PhD -Professor & Chair, Department of Public Health & Prevention Science, Director, Center for Health Disparities Research & Education, Baldwin Wallace University, Berea, OH, USA Jaime Eduardo Barrientos Delgago, PhD -Associate Professor, Psychology Faculty, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile James Beggan, PhD -Department of Sociology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA Peer Briken, MD -Professor, Director of the Institute for Sex Research, Sexual Medicine, and Forensic Psychiatry; University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany Carlos F. Cáceres, MD, PhD -Professor, School of Public Health, Cayetano Heredia University; Director, Institute of Studies in Health Sexuality and Human Development, Lima, Peru Peggy Cadet, BS -Independent Researcher, White River Junction, VT, USA Joana Carvalho, PhD -Assistant Professor, Coordinator Human Sexuality Group (SexLab - CPUP) University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal Xiangnan Chai, PhD -Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China Jennifer Jo Connor, PhD -Associate Professor, Clinic Director, Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA Kristian Daneback, PhD -Professor, Department of Social Work, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden Hanneke de Graaf, PhD -Senior Researcher, The Dutch Expertise Centre on Sexuality at Rutgers International, Utrecht, Netherlands Alexis Dewaele, PhD -Associate Professor, Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium, Europe Nicola Doering, PhD -Professor of Media Psychology and Media Design, Institute of Media and Communication Science, Department of Economic Sciences and Media, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany Jamie Feldman, MD, PhD -Associate Professor, Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA William Fisher, PhD -Professor, Department of Psychology and Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada Abby C. Girard, PsyD -Associate Professor, Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA Alain Giami, PhD -Director of Research, INSERM, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France Brice Gouvernet, PhD -Department of Psychology, Université Rouen Normandie, MONT SAINT AIGNAN Cedex, France Debby Herbenick, PhD, MPH -Professor, Center for Sexual Health Promotion, Indiana University, School of Public Health, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA Erick Janssen, PhD -Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Family and Sexuality Studies, University of Leuven, Kinsey Institute Research Fellow, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA Sofia Jawed-Wessel PhD -Public Health and Health Behavior School of Health and Kinesiology University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE, USA Juan Jorge Gato, PhD -Researcher, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal Michael R. Kauth, PhD -Professor, Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine; Investigator, Behavioral Health & Implementation Program, Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX, USA Peggy J. Kleinplatz, PhD -Professor, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada Osmo Kontula, PhD -Research Professor, Population Research Institute, Family Federation of Finland, University of Helsinki,Helsinki, Finland Michal Lew-Starowicz, MD, PhD -Associate Professor, Head of Department of Psychiatry, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland Charlotta Löfgren, PhD -Professor in Health and Society, Department of Social Work, Malmö University, Sweden Purnima Mane, PhD, MPH -President Pathfinder International, Watertown, MA Kristen Mark, PhD, MPH -Professor, Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Alex McKay, PhD -Executive Director, Sexuality Information and Education Council of Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada Robin R. Milhausen, PhD -Associate Professor, Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, Guelph, Ontario, Canada Professor, Program in Human Sexuality, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA Soumya Mohany, PhD -Demographer, Migration, Urbanization and Sexual Health Research, New Delhi, India Erin Moore, PhD -Department of Psychology, College of Science, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA Charles Moser, PhD, MD -Professor and Chair of the Department of Sexual Medicine at the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, San Francisco, CA Anna Ng, PhD - Coordinator, Research Unit on Love, Marriage and Family, School of Humanities and Languages, Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Hong Kong, China Syed W. B. Noor, PhD -Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology & Health Science, Louisiana State University Shreveport, Shreveport, LA, USA Lucia F. Sullivan, PhD -Professor, Department of Psychology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada Patricia Pascoal, PhD -Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal Manuela Peixoto, PhD -Center for Psychology at University of Porto, Portugal Andrew Perkins, PhD -Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA Antonio Prunas, PhD -Department of Psychology, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy Ryan Rahm-Knigge, PhD -Assistant Professor, Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA Simon Rosser, PhD, MPH -Professor and Director, HIPS Program, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health,University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN, USA Eusebio Rubio-Aurioles, MD, PhD -Director, Asociacion Mexicana para la Salud Sexual, A.C. (AMSSAC), Delegacion Tlalpan, Mexico Sonya Satinsky, PhD -Director, Health Promotion and Prevention Services University Health Services, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA Vanessa Schick, PhD -Department of Management, Policy and Community Health The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health,Houston, TX, USA Chander Shekhar, PhD -Professor, Department of Fertility Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai and Principal Investigator, National Family Health Survey, India Robert Taylor Segraves, MD, PhD -Professor of Psychiatry, Case School of Medicine, Chair of Psychiatry, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH , USA Jennifer Vencill, PhD -Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Psychiatry & Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA Pedro Vieira Baptista, MDLower Genital Tract Unit, Centro Hospitalar de São João Hospital Lusíadas Porto, Porto, Portugal Kevan Wylie, MD -Honorary Professor, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Abstracting and indexing
Abstracted/indexed in: Abstracts in Anthropology, Academic Search Series, British Journal of Pharmacology Abstracts, CAB International, CINAHL Plus, Crossref, Current Contents®/Social and Behavioral Sciences, Educational Research Abstracts, Family Index Database, GenderWatch, Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI), Journal Citation Reports Social Sciences Edition, Psychinfo, PubMed Central (PMC), Social Science Citation Index (SSCI); and Studies on Women & Gender Abstracts.
Open access
International Journal of Sexual Health is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
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Members of the following groups can receive an individual print and online subscription to International Journal of Sexual Health at a special society member rate. Please see the pricing or subscribe page for details.
American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT)
Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality (IASHS)
International Academy of Sex Research (IASR)
International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health (ISSWSH)
Society for Sex Therapy & Research (SSTAR)
Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health (SASH)
Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS)
Print ISSN:
1931-7611
Online ISSN:
1931-762X
4 issues per year
Currently known as:
International Journal of Sexual Health
(2007 - current)
Formerly known as
Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality
(1988 - 2007)
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