About this journal
Aims and scope
The Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy is one of the top journals in the field of human sexuality which is independent of any professional organization. This journal is devoted to the publication of scholarly articles concerning human sexuality. JSMT is an active forum for international and interdisciplinary communication regarding innovative research concerning sexual behavior as well as the development of new approaches to treatment of sexual problems. The editorial board is committed to the study of the biological, psychological and socio-cultural correlates of human sexual behavior.
JSMT publishes empirical research, theoretical reviews (literature and systematic ones, including meta-analyses), brief reports, methodological articles, commentaries and letters to the editor.
Peer Review Policy: All review papers in this journal have undergone editorial screening and peer review.
Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106.
Readership:
Sex therapists, marriage and family therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, allied health and mental health practitioners, counselors, clinical social workers, physicians, nurses, clergy practitioners and pastoral counselors.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 469K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 2.1 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 3.0 (2023) 5 year IF
- 4.7 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.096 (2023) SNIP
- 0.792 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 8 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 56 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 23 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 25% 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.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
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
FOUNDING EDITORS
Clifford J. Sager, MD
Helen Singer Kaplan, MD, PhD
FIRST EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Raul Schiavi, MD
CURRENT EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
R. Taylor Segraves, MD, PhD - Case Western University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Richard Balon, MD- Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
Julia Velten, PhD - Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Bochum, Germany
BOOK REVIEW EDITOR
Kathryn Hall- Princeton, New Jersey, USA
CONSULTING EDITORS
Carmita Abdo, PhD - University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, San Paulo, Brazil
Marcalee Spiski Alexander, MD - University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Clayton Alison, MBBS - University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Ajit Avasthi, MD - Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
Richard Balon, MD - Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Samantha Banbury, PhD - London Metropolitan University, London, UK
Rosemary Basson, MD - University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Yitzchak M. Binik, PhD - McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Peer Briken, MD, FECSM - Institute for Sex Research, Sexual Medicine, and Forensic Psychiatry , Hamburg, Germany
Gregory Broderick, MD - Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Lori Brotto, PhD - University of British Columbia,Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Anna Carlotta-Zarski, PhD - University of Nurnberg/Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
Meredith Chivers, PhD - Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Anita Clayton, MD - University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Eric W. Corty, PhD - Penn State Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
Kristian Daneback, PhD - Gothenburg University, Sweden
Susan Davis, MD - Monash University, Prahran, Victoria, Australia
David C. de Jong, Phd - Western Carolina University, NC, USA
Leonard R. Derogatis, PhD - Maryland Center for Sexual Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Glen O. Gabbard, MD - Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Annamaria Giraldi, MD, PhD - Sexological Clinic, Psychiatric Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
Irwin Goldstein, MD - University of California, San Diego, California, USA
Cynthia Graham, PhD - University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
Alessandra Graziottin, MD - Hospital San Raffaele Resnati, Milan, Italy
Julia Heiman, PhD - Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Patrick Jern, PhD - Abo Akademi University, Abo, Finland
Peggy J. Kleinplatz, PhD - University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Joseph Lau, PhD - Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Stephen B. Levine, MD - Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Mário Lourenço, MD, PhD- Alto Ave Hospital Center, Braga, Portugal
Kristen P. Mark, PhD, MPH- University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Barry W. McCarthy, PhD - American University, Washington, DC, USA
Chris G. McMahon, MD - Australian Centre for Sexual Health, St. Leonards, New South Wales, Australia
William Maurice, MD - University of British Columbia,Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Cindy Meston, PhD - University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA
Angel Luis Montejo, MD, PhD - University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Patrícia M. Pascoal, PhD- Universidade Lusófona, Lisbon, Portugal
Michael A. Perelman, PhD - Cornell Medical School, New York, New York, USA
Nancy Phillips, MD - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Caroline F. Pukall, PhD - Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Alan J. Riley, MD - Lampeter, Carmarthenshire, United Kingdom
Kenneth Paul Rosenberg, MD - Cornell University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
Renate Rosenthal, PhD - University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Kathleen Segraves, PhD - Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Stuart Seidman, MD - Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
Koos Slob, PhD - Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Peggy B. Smith, PhD - Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Donald S. Strassberg, PhD - University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Mehmet Sungur, MD - Marmara University Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
Terry Trepper, PhD - Purdue University, Hammond, Indiana, USA
Thomas Wise, MD - Georgetown Medical School, Washington, DC, USA
Terri L. Woodard, MD - The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
Zvi Zemishlany, MD - Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Ken Zucker, PhD - University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Abstracting and indexing
- CSA
- FRANCIS
- PsycINFO
- Sociological Abstracts (Online) - EBSCOhost
- Academic Search Alumni Edition
- Academic Search Complete
- Academic Search Premier
- CINAHL Plus
- CINAHL Plus with Full Text
- Current Abstracts
- Family & Society Studies Worldwide
- Family Studies Abstracts
- Gender Studies Database
- Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
- SocINDEX
- SocINDEX with Full Text
- TOC Premier
- Women's Studies International - Elsevier
- EMBASE
- Scopus - National Library of Medicine
- PubMed - OCLC
- ArticleFirst
- Electronic Collections Online
- MEDLINE
- PsycFIRST
- Russian Academy of Science Bibliographies - ProQuest
- Thomson Reuters
- Arts and Humanities Search
- Current Contents
- Social Sciences Citation Index
- Web of Science
Open access
Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy 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.
Why choose open access?
- 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$52/£32/€42 for members of AASECT, IASR, SSTAR & SSSS. Contact +44 (0)20 7017 5543 or [email protected]
Society information
Members of the following groups can receive an individual print subscription to Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy at a special society member rate. Please see the pricing or subscribe page for details.
- American Association of Sexuality Educators Counselors and Therapists (AASECT)
- International Academy of Sex Research (IASR)
- Society for Sex Therapy & Research (SSTAR)
- Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS)
- Colombian Association of Sexual Health (ACSEX)
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