Description: The Journal of Sex Research (JSR) remains one of the premier outlets for multi-disciplinary research on human sexuality, with its submission numbers and impact factor increasing consistently each year. Interested students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty members can contribute to JSR’s success through serving as a peer-reviewer of others’ submitted manuscripts, and also considering JSR as an outlet for their own work. In this session, attendees will hear from Dr. Cynthia Graham (Editor-in-Chief of JSR) about what makes for informative and helpful peer-reviews, while Dr. John Sakaluk (Registered Reports Editor for JSR) will introduce attendees to the structure, benefits, and evaluation considerations of the new Registered Report submission type. Attendees will also be able to have their questions about peer-reviewing and Registered Reports answered by the presenters.
Keywords: Peer-Review; Publishing; Research Methods; Research Transparency

Cynthia A. Graham, PhD (she/her)
University of Southampton, Dept. of Psychology
Editor-in-Chief for
The Journal of Sex Research
Cynthia Graham is a Professor of Sexual and Reproductive Health at the University of Southampton, Centre for Sexual Health Research, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Kinsey Institute. She is Co-Director of the Centre for Clinical and Community Applications of Health Psychology, Deputy Head (Research) of the School of Psychology, and Faculty Chair of Ethics at the University of Southampton. Her research focuses on male condom use, hormonal contraceptives and women’s sexuality, women’s sexual problems, and sexual health among older adults. She has published over 230 peer-reviewed articles and chapters.
She has been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Sex Research since 2009. She was a member of the DSM-5 Workgroup on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders. In 2016 she was awarded the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award and in 2019 the Distinguished Service to SSSS Award by the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality.

John K. Sakaluk, PhD (he/him)
Western University, Dept. of Psychology
Registered Reports Editor for
The Journal of Sex Research
John K. Sakaluk is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology (Social, Personality, and Developmental Psychology Cluster) at Western University, in London (Ontario), Canada. John’s program of research focuses on the application and promotion of advanced forms of psychometric modelling and research synthesis techniques to topics in sexuality, romantic relationship, and psychotherapy research. Throughout his research, John strives to improve on his use of research techniques that promote scholarly transparency, reproducibility, replicability, and inclusivity, while using and promoting open-source data analysis platforms and open-access systems of publishing. A former Statistical Consultant for the Journal of Sex Research, John now serves as the Editor of the new Registered Reports section of the journal and is keen to promote this format of publishing—that maximizes transparency while enabling acceptance-for-publication of submissions before resources are spent in the process of doing research—for those doing hypothesis-testing-oriented work.