Culture, Health & Sexuality publishes international, cutting-edge research together with scholarly reviews of contemporary issues and concerns.
In their writing, authors are expected to use a cultural lens, both conceptually and analytically, as it relates to sex, sexuality, gender and health. Among the topics that Culture, Health & Sexuality publishes on are the following:
• Sex, gender and sexuality as they are experienced and lived, by diverse populations individuals and groups • Intersectionality between gender, sex and sexuality and other social identities and differences, structures and divisions • Health systems, beliefs and practices as they relate to sexual and reproductive health and wellbeing • Sexual and reproductive well-being of individuals and communities, together with their cultural aspects • Cultural dimensions of STIs, HIV and other sexual/reproductive health problems • The positive dimensions of sexual health, including pleasure, reciprocity and respect • Sex, sexuality and gender inequality and health, including sexual and reproductive health and rights, and diverse forms of sexual expression and desire • Culturally informed research, policy and practice relevant to sexual and gender inequality and health; and sexual, intimate partner and gender violence.
The journal accepts original research articles and high-quality scholarly reviews.
59 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
18 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
22% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors
who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication.
However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s
quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it
should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to
support and not replace qualitative review.
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.
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.
Centre for Social Research in Health UNSW Sydney Sydney, NSW 2052 Australia
Founding Editors:
Susan Kippax - UNSW Sydney Purnima Mane - Independent Consultant, USA Richard Parker - Columbia University, USA Barbara de Zalduondo - Independent Consultant, USA
Assistant Editor: Sujith Kumar Prankumar - Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity in Society, UNSW Sydney, Australia
Administrator: Ilaria Longo- UK
Editorial Advisory Board: Abigail Harrison - Brown University School of Public Health, USA Alex Ker - Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand Ana Amuchástegui - Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, México Ana Luisa Liguori - Independent Consultant, México Andrew Gibbs - Exeter University, UK Andrew Spieldenner- California State University, San Marcos, USA Ann Moore - Guttmacher Institute, USA Anne-Lise Middelthon- University of Oslo, Norway Brian Earp- University of Oxford, UK Carl Kendall - Tulane University, USA Carlos Cáceres - Universidad Cayetano Heredia, Perú Cathy Vaughan -University of Melbourne, Australia Charles Nzioka- University of Nairobi, Kenya Christy Newman -UNSW Sydney, Australia Daniel Grace -University of Toronto, Canada David Seal -Tulane University, USA Don Operario -Emory University, USA Elaine Chase- UCL Institute of Education, UK Elizabeth Mills -University of Sussex, UK Emily Arnold- University of California, San Francisco, USA Fiona Bloomer- Ulster University, , UK Fiona Scorgie -University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Gary Dowsett- La Trobe University, Australia Heather Worth- UNSW Sydney, Australia Hilary Homans- Independent Consultant, France Holly WardlowUniversity of Toronto, Canada Horas Wong - University of Sydney, Australia Ivonne Szasz - El Colegio De México, México Janet Seeley -London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK Jeffrey Weeks- London South Bank University, UK Jessica Botfield - Monash University, Australia Joanne Bryant - UNSW Sydney, Australia Jocelyn DeJong - American University of Beirut, Lebanon Jonathan Stadler - University of Johannesburg, South Africa Kane Race- University of Sydney, Australia Kåre Moen- University of Oslo, Norway Kim Blankenship- American University, USA Le Minh Giang- Hanoi Medical University, Vietnam Lesley Hoggart- Open University, UK Lisa Bowleg - The George Washington University, USA Lucia O’Sullivan - University of New Brunswick, Canada Marian Burchardt -Universität Leipzig, Germany Marjorie Muecke- University of Pennsylvania, USA Mary Crewe- University of Pretoria, South Africa Mellissa Withers- University of Southern California, USA Michael Tan- University of the Philippines, The Philippines Michelle Marzullo- California Institute of Integral Studies, USA Pardis Mahdavi- University of La Verne, USA Pauline Oosterhoff- Institute of Development Studies,UK Peter Jackson- The Australian National University, Australia Peter Newman- University of Toronto, Canada Rafael Mazín- Independent Consultant, Washington, USA Ravi Verma- International Center for Research on Women, India Robert Pralat- University of Cambridge, UK Roger Ingham- University of Southampton, UK Sara de Meyer- Ghent University, Belgium Sarah Bernays -University of Sydney, Australia Seanna Leath -Washington University in St Louis, USA Shalini Bharat- Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India Shelley Lees- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK Shemecka Thorpe- University of Kentucky Stephen Bell- Burnet Institute, Australia Stephen L. Schensul- University of Connecticut, USA Theo Sandfort- Columbia University, USA Tien Ee Dominic Yeo - Hong Kong Baptist University Tsitsi Masvawure - College of the Holy Cross, USA Vera Paiva- Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil Vicky Bungay- University of British Columbia, Canada Ximena Salazar- Universidad Cayetano Heredia, Perú Yingying Huang- Renmin University of China, PRC Zoe Duby- South African Medical Research Council, South Africa
Abstracting and indexing
Culture, Health & Sexuality is noted in: Anthropological Index; Anthropological Literature; CAB Health; CABI Information; Cambridge Scientific Abstracts; Caredata; CINAHL; CommunityWISE; Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences; EBSCO; Educational Research Abstracts online (ERA); EMBASE; European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS); Family Studies Database; FRANCIS; Gay & Lesbian Abstracts (Sexual Diversity Studies); Health Economic Evaluations Database (OHE-HEED); Index Medicus/MEDLINE; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences; International Development Abstracts; ISI Alerting Services; Psychological Abstracts/ PsycINFO/ PsycLIT; the Prevention Evaluation Registry for Youth (PERRY); POPLINE; Scopus; Social Sciences Citation Index; Social Scisearch; Social Sciences Abstracts, Social Services Infonet and Social Services Abstracts, and Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts.
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Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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