About this journal
Aims and scope
International Journal of Transgender Health, together with its partner organization the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), offers an international, multidisciplinary scholarly forum for publication in the field of transgender health in its broadest sense for academics, practitioners, policy makers, and the general population.
The journal welcomes contributions from a range of disciplines, such as:
- Endocrinology
- Surgery
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
- Speech and language therapy
- Sexual medicine
- Sexology
- Family therapy
- Public health
- Sociology
- Counselling
- Law
- Medical ethics
We publish:
- Original research (quantitative as well as qualitative)
- Policy statements
- Review articles
- Letters to the editor
International Journal of Transgender Health has a commitment to an International focus, as reflected in our Editorial Board, whose members are from Europe, the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand.
All manuscripts published by IJTH, including those in special issues, have undergone rigorous, anonymous peer review, and editor screening.
Tags: endocrinology; surgery; obstetrics and gynaecology; fertility; psychiatry; psychology; primary care; speech and language therapy; electrolysis; sexual medicine; sexual health; sexual functioning; clinical ethics; medical ethics; medical sociology; medical anthropology; law; family therapy; sexual dysfunctions; relational therapy; sex research; sexology; public health.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 544K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 10.5 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 8.7 (2023) 5 year IF
- 10.4 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 3.761 (2023) SNIP
- 2.263 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 2 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 22 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 15 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 22% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
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Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- 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.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
EDITOR
DAMIEN RIGGS, PhD, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
MANVI ARORA, PhD, University of Delhi, India
ADA CHEUNG, PhD, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
GRIET DE CUYPERE, MD, PhD, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
ELS ELAUT, PhD, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
AVERY EVERHART, University of British Columbia, Canada
ELLE LETT, PhD, MA, Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
A. J. LOWIK, PhD, University of British Columbia, Canada
ARJEE RESTAR, PhD, University of Washington, Washington, USA
SHOSHANA ROSENBERG, ScD, MPH, MSexol, Independent Researcher, unceded Wurundjeri land, Kulin Nations, Australia
GARETH TREHARNE, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Otago, Aotearoa/New Zealand
WOUTER VAN DER SLUIS, MD, PhD, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
FORMER EDITORS
FRIEDEMANN PFÄFFLIN, MD, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany, Founding Editor
ELI COLEMAN, PhD, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA, Founding Editor
RICHARD EKINS, PhD, University of Ulster, Coleraine, UK
DAVID KING, PhD, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
WALTER O BOCKTING, PhD, Program for the Study of LGBT Health, Division of Gender, Sexuality, and Health, New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University Psychiatry with the Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, USA
WALTER PIERRE BOUMAN, MD, PhD, National Centre for Transgender Health & University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
EDITORIAL BOARD
SWAGATA BANIK, PhD, Baldwin Wallace University, Berea, Cleveland, OH, USA
ABBY BARRAS, Brighton University, Brighton, UK
JAVIER BELINKY, MD, Department of Gender Surgery Hospital Carlos G. Durand, Guemes Clinic and School of Medicine, Buenos Aires University, Bueno Aires, Argentina
JENS BERLI, MD, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
ANNETTE BROMDAL, University of Southern Queensland, Queensland, Australia
GEORGE BROWN, MD, East Tennessee State University, Bluff City, TN, USA
STEPHANIE BUDGE, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
JOHN CAPOZUCA, PhD, Private Practice, New York, NY, USA
MADELINE B. DEUTSCH, MD, Center of Excellence for Transgender Health, University of California, San Francisco, CA, and Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
SONJA ELLIS, PhD, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
ANNELOU LC DE VRIES, MD, PhD, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
JAMIE FELDMAN, MD, PhD, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA
LIN FRASER, EdD, Private Practice, San Francisco, CA, USA
CAL HORTON, Oxford Brookes’ Centre for Diversity Policy Research and Practice, Oxford, UK
ALEX IANTAFFI, PhD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
LAURA A. JACOBS, MSW, LCSW, Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, New York, NY
BETH JONES, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
ASHLEIGH LIN, PhD, Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
HEINO F. L. MEYER-BAHLBURG, DrRerNat, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
SANDY O’SULLIVAN, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia
JOANNE PASHDAG, PhD, Hawaii Pacific University, Department of Psychology, Honolulu, Hawaii
CARLA PFEFFER, Michigan State University, Michigan, MI, USA
JAE A. PUCKETT, PhD, Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
KATHERINE RACHLIN, PhD, Private Practice, New York, NY, USA
CHRISTINA RICHARDS, DCPsych, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust & Regents University, London, UK
G NIC RIDER, PhD, Program in Human Sexuality, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA
AYDEN SCHEIM, PhD, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
ANNELIESE SINGH, PhD, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
PENELOPE STRAUSS, PhD, Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
CORRINNE SULLIVAN, Western Sydney University, NSW, Australia
AMY TISHELMAN, MD, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
TIM VAN DE GRIFT, MD, PhD, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
ANNA VAN DER MIESEN, MD, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
SAM WINTER, PhD, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia
GEMMA WITCOMB, PhD, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
SAHIKA YUKSEL, MD, Istanbul Medical Facility, Istanbul, Turkey
Abstracting and indexing
Abstracted/ indexed in: Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Psychology; CINAHL; CSA Social Services Abstracts; SocINDEX; EBSCOhost Online Research Databases; Elsevier Scopus; Informa Educational Research Abstracts Online; Informa Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS); JournalSeek; LGBT Life; PASCAL; PsycINFO; and SwetsWise All Titles.
Open access
International Journal of Transgender 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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- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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News, offers and calls for papers
News and offers
- Special subscription rate of US$65 for members of APA Division 44, AASECT & SSSS. Contact +44 (0)20 7017 5543 or [email protected] to subscribe.
Society information
Members of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) receive the International Journal of Transgender Health as a free benefit of membership. As an international multidisciplinary professional Association of the mission of WPATH is to promote evidence based care, education, research, advocacy, public policy and respect in transgender health. The vision of WPATH is to bring together diverse professionals dedicated to developing best practices and supportive policies worldwide that promote health, research, education, respect, dignity, and equality for transgender, transsexual, and gender-variant people in all cultural settings. The quickest and easiest way to learn more about WPATH or become a member is to visit their website at www.wpath.org.
Members of the following groups can receive an individual print and online subscription to International Journal of Transgender 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)
- Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues - Division 44 of the American Psychological Association
- Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS)
4 issues per year
Currently known as:
- International Journal of Transgender Health (2020 - current)
Formerly known as
- International Journal of Transgenderism (2005 - 2019)
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