The Journal of Sex Research
The Journal of Sex Research (JSR) is a leading interdisciplinary journal dedicated to advancing the scientific study of sexuality. It is the official journal of SSSS.
Since 1965, the journal has provided a forum for scholarship from across the many disciplines that contribute to sexual science. JSR publishes empirical studies, brief reports, theoretical and methodological articles, literature reviews, commentaries, and letters to the editor, fostering dialogue and expanding knowledge about the diverse dimensions of sexuality. JSR also publishes the Annual Review of Sex Research, devoted to comprehensive reviews of current topics in sex science.
JSR actively seeks submissions from researchers around the world.
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Key JSR Metrics
2024 JCR Impact Factors: 2-year 2.7/ 5-year 3.7
Journal Citation Indicator (JCI): 1.571
Ranked 17/110 journals in the Interdisciplinary, Social Sciences Category
Ranked 42/131 journals in the Psychology, Clinical Psychology Category
2024 CiteScore: 6.7
CiteScore Ranked 5/190 journals in Gender Studies
Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics, Scopus
Registered Reports
JSR is one of the first sexuality journals to offers researchers a new submission format to consider for their work, Registered Reports. This is an approach to conducting and publishing research that is supported by more than 300 journals, in which Reviewers and the Editor provide authors with helpful feedback before authors carry out their research, with Reviewers providing results-agnostic appraisals of the research.
For more information, visit the Center for Open Science, watch the SSSS Registered Reports webinar, or download JSR comprehensive Registered Report submission guidelines.
Questions?
All inquiries regarding JSR policy and manuscript preparation/submission should be sent to the JSR Editor:
Cynthia A. Graham, PhD, C Psychol.
Editor, The Journal of Sex Research
The Kinsey Institute and Dept. of Gender Studies, Indiana University
E-mail: cygraham@iu.edu
Want to submit a manuscript?
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the JSR Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double blind, and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts.
Please not that JSR does not accept personal narratives or case reports.
For full information on submitting a manuscript, visit JSR at Taylor and Francis.
Statement on the Importance of Sexuality and Gender Research
Read the statement in full
Full Citation:
Cynthia Graham, Phillip Hammack, Liam Wignall, Editorial Signatories:, Peter Aggleton, Feona Attwood, Travis Kong, Roisin Ryan-Flood, Ella Ben Hagai, Rodrigo Borba, Kira Hall, Mie Hiramoto, Rachel Calogero, John Elia, Angel Foster, Paz Galupo, Robert Garofalo, Ian Holloway, Terry Humphreys, Heiko Motschenbacher, Emma Pitchford, Emily Prior, DJ Williams, Michael Rayment, Damien Riggs, Caroline Sabin, Francisco Sy, Markie Twist, James Wadley & Kenneth J. Zucker (27 Mar 2025): Statement on the Importance of Sexuality and Gender Research, The Journal of Sex Research, DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2025.2474343
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Cynthia A. Graham, PhD, C Psychol.
Editor, The Journal of Sex Research
The Kinsey Institute and Dept. of Gender Studies, Indiana University
E-mail: cygraham@iu.edu
Editorial Assistant
Louise Ferrall, BSc.
Department of Gender Studies; Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Associate Editors
Heather Armstrong, PhD
University of Southampton; Southampton, UK
Kelly Davis, PhD
Arizona State University; Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Marieke Dewitte, PhD
Maastricht University; The Netherlands
Christian Grov, PhD
City University of New York - Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy; New York, New York, USA
Heather Hensman Kettrey, PhD
Clemson University; Clemson, South Carolina, USA
Margaret Rosario, PhD
City University of New York - City College and Graduate Center; New York, New York, USA
Laura Widman, PhD
North Carolina State University; Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Brian Willoughby, PhD
Brigham Young University; Provo, Utah, USA
Annual Review of Sex Research Editor
Heather Hensman Kettrey, PhD
Clemson University; Clemson, South Carolina, USA
Statistical Consultants
Amanda N. Gesselman, PhD
The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University; Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Devon J. Hensel, PhD
Indiana University School of Medicine and Indiana University Purdue University; Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Consulting Editors
Olivia Adams, PhD
University of Florida, Gainsville; Florida, USA
Andrew Allen, PhD
University of the Sunshine Coast; Queensland, Australia
Kristin Anders, PhD
Kansas State University; Manhattan, Kansas, USA
Heather Armstrong, PhD
University of Southampton; Southampton, UK
Lanice Avery, PhD
University of Virginia; Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Jaime Barrientos, PhD
Universidad Alberto Hurtado; Santiago, Chile
James Beggan, PhD
University of Louisville; Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Charlene F. Belu, PhD
University of New Brunswick; Fredericton, Canada
Maggie Bennett-Brown, PhD
Texas Tech University; Lubbock, Texas, USA
Karen L. Blair, PhD
Trent University; Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Amy Bleakley, PhD, MPH
University of Delaware; Newark, Delaware, USA
Lindsey Blumell, PhD
University of London; London, England
Shari Blumenstock, PhD
Queen's University; Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Anthony F. Bogaert, PhD
Brock University; St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Beáta Böthe, PhD
University of Montreal; Montreal, Canada
Lisa Bowleg, PhD
The George Washington University; Washington, DC, USA
Audrey Brassard, PhD
University of Sherbrooke; Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Peer Briken, M.D.
Institute for Sex Research, Sexual Medicine and Forensic Psychiatry, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf; Hamburg, Germany
Ashley Brown, Ph.D., C. Psychol.
Kings College London; London, UK
James E. Brooks, PhD
Indiana University; Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Lori A. Brotto, PhD
University of British Columbia; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Taymy Caso, PhD
University of Alberta; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Sara B. Chadwick, PhD
University of Wisconsin-Madison; Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Weiqi Chen, Ph.D., RN.
University of Wisconsin-Madison; Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Meredith Chivers, PhD
Queen's University; Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Serena Corsini-Munt, PhD
University of Ottawa; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Rica Cruz, PhD
Unprude, Metro; Manila, Philippines
Hanneke de Graaf, PhD
Rutgers, The Dutch Expertise Centre on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights; Utrecht, The Netherlands
Peter J. de Jong, PhD
Department of Clinical Psychology & Experimental Psychopathology, University of Groningen; Groningen, The Netherlands
Aaron H. Devor, PhD
University of Victoria; Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Lisa M. Diamond, PhD
University of Utah; Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Michelle Drouin, PhD
Indiana University, Purdue University; Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
Shari L. Dworkin, PhD
School of Nursing and Health Studies, University of Washington Bothell; Bothell, Washington, USA
Reina Evans-Paulson, PhD.
Innovation Research & Training; Durham, North Carolina, USA
Terri D. Fisher, PhD
Ohio State University at Mansfield; Mansfield, Ohio, USA
William A. Fisher, PhD
University of Western Ontario; London, Ontario, Canada
J. Dennis Fortenberry, MD, MS
Indiana University School of Medicine; Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
George A. Gaither, PhD
Ball State University; Muncie, Indiana, USA
Ateret Gewitz-Meydan, PhD
University of Haifa; Haifa, Israel
Amanda K. Gilmore, PhD
Medical University of South Carolina; Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Gert Martin Hald, PhD
University of Copenhagen; Copenhagen, Denmark
Orlando Harris, PhD
School of Nursing, UCSF; San Francisco, California
Trevor Hart, PhD
Toronto Metropolitan University; Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Amy L. Hequembourg, PhD
University at Buffalo; Buffalo, New York, USA
Jessica Hille, PhD
Kinsey Institute at Indiana University; Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Sam D. Hughes, PhD
Emporia State University; Emporia, Kansas, USA
Terry Humphreys, PhD
Trent University, Peterborough; Ontario, Canada
Janet Shibley Hyde, PhD
University of Wisconsin-Madison; Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Hannah Javidi, PhD
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University; Greensboro, North Carolina
Christian Joyal, PhD
Université of Québec à Trois-Rivières; Québec, Canada
Chelsea D. Kilimnik, PhD
University of Colorado Boulder; Boulder, Colorado, USA
Mitchell Kirwan, PhD
The University of Texas at El Paso; El Paso, Texas, USA
Taylor Kohut, PhD
Trent University; Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Barbara Krahé, PhD
University of Potsdam; Potsdam, Germany
Eva Lefkowitz, PhD
University of Connecticut; Mansfield, Connecticut, USA
Justin Lehmiller, PhD
The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University; Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Dennis Li, PhD, MPH
Northwestern University; Evanston, Illinois, USA
Nikolay Lunchenkov, MD, MSc
TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology, Technical University of Munich; Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Amy Lykins, PhD
University of New England; Australia
Heidi Lyons
Oakland University; Rochester, Michigan, USA
Megan K. Maas, PhD
Michigan State University; East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Tiffany L. Marcantonio, PhD
University of Alabama; Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
Kristen P. Mark, PhD
University of Minnesota Medical School; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Robert Marx, PhD
San Jose State University; San Jose, California
Mark McCormack, PhD
Aston University; Birmingham, UK
Étienne Meunier, PhD
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; New York, New York, USA
Robin R. Milhausen, PhD
University of Guelph; Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Kirstin Mitchell, PhD
University of Glasgow; Glasgow, UK
Elizabeth M. Morgan, PhD
Springfield College; Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
Todd G. Morrison, PhD
University of Saskatchewan; Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Charlene Muehlenhard, PhD
University of Kansas; Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Brian Mustanski, PhD
Northwestern University; Evanston, Illinois, USA
Tom Nadarzynski, PhD
The University of Westminster; London, UK
Michael Newcomb, PhD
Northwestern University; Evanston, Illinois, USA
Charles Negy, LCP
Independent Practice; Florida, USA
Daniel Oesterle, M.S.
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University; Providence, Rhode Island, USA, and Purdue University; West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Cátia Oliveira, PhD
Universidade Lusófona do Porto (FPED); Lisboa, Portugal
Spencer B. Olmstead, PhD
University of Tennessee; Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Lucia O'Sullivan, PhD
University of New Brunswick; Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Anthony Paik, PhD
University of Massachusetts; Amherst; Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Katrina Pariera, PhD
San Diego State University, San Diego, California
Richard Parker, PhD
Columbia University; New York, New York, USA
Patrícia M. Pascoal, PhD
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias; Lisboa, Portugal
Jay P. Paul, PhD
University of California at San Francisco; San Francisco, California, USA
Cory L. Pedersen, PhD
Kwantien Polytechnic University; Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Samuel L. Perry, PhD
University of Oklahoma; Norman; Norman, Oklahoma, USA
Zoe D. Peterson, PhD
Indiana University; Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Morgan E. PettyJohn, PhD
The University of Texas at Arlington; Arlington, Texas, USA
Myeshia N. Price, PhD
Indiana University; Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Qazi Rahman, PhD
King's College London; London, UK
Nastassia Rambarran, MA
University of Glasgow; Glasgow, UK
Juliet Richters, PhD
University of New South Wales; Sydney, Australia
Theo Sandfort, PhD
New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University; New York, New York, USA
Pablo Santos-Iglesias, PhD
Cape Breton University; Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
Eric W. Schrimshaw, PhD
University of Central Florida; Orlando, Florida, USA
Scott Semenyna, PhD
MacEwan University; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Michael Seto, PhD
Royal Ottawa Health Care Group; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Shayna Skakoon-Sparling, PhD
University of Guelph; Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Alexsandar Štulhofer, PhD
University of Zagreb; Zagreb, Croatia
Charlotte Tate, PhD
San Francisco State University; San Francisco, California, USA
Inês M. Tavares, PhD
Dalhousie University; Halifax, Canada
Shameka Thorpe, PhD
University of Kentucky; Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Ashley Townes, PhD
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Division of HIV Prevention; Atlanta, Georgia, USA
I. India Thusi, PhD
Indiana University Maurer School of Law and The Kinsey Institute, Indiana University; Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Pablo Vallejo-Medina, PhD
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC); Barcelona, Spain
Daphne van de Bongardt, PhD
Erasmus University Rotterdam; Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Julia Velten, PhD
Ruhr University Bochum; Bochum, Germany
Virginia J. Vitzthum, PhD
Indiana University; Bloomington; Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Kate Walsh, PhD
University of Wisconsin; Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Monique Ward, PhD
University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Brooke Wells, PhD
Widener University; Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Rose Wesche, PhD
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
Keon West, PhD
Goldsmiths, University of London; London, UK
Drew A. Westmoreland, MSPH, PhD
University of Florida; Gainesville, Florida, USA
Liam Wignall, PhD
University of Brighton; Brighton, UK
Jessica Willoughby, PhD
The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, Washington State University; Washington, USA
Jacqueline Woerner, PhD
University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA
Val Wongsomboon, PhD
Yale University; New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Paul J. Wright, PhD
The Media School, Indiana University; Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck, PhD
Griffith University; Gold Coast, Australia