International Journal of Transgender Health
| Discipline | Sexology |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Damien Riggs |
| Publication details | |
Former name(s) | International Journal of Transgenderism |
| History | 1997–present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| 10.5 (2023) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Int. J. Transgend. Health |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 2689-5269 (print) 2689-5277 (web) |
| LCCN | 2004213389 |
| OCLC no. | 56795128 |
International Journal of Transgenderism | |
| ISSN | 1553-2739 (print) 1434-4599 (web) |
| Links | |
The International Journal of Transgender Health is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on gender dysphoria and gender incongruence, the medical treatment of transgender individuals, social and legal acceptance of gender affirming surgery, and professional and public education on transgender health. It also publishes the Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People on behalf of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health of which it is the official journal,[1] guest editorials, policy statements, letters to the editor, and review articles. The journal is published by Taylor & Francis and the editor-in-chief is Damien Riggs (Flinders University).[2]
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in CINAHL, the Directory of Open Access Journals,[3] EBSCO databases, PsycINFO, Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, and the Social Sciences Citation Index.[4] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 10.5.[5]
History
The journal was established in 1997 as the International Journal of Transgenderism, obtaining its current title in 2020 to reflect more appropriate and acceptable language as the former name is used as a slur nowadays,[6] [7] with Friedemann Pfäfflin and Eli Coleman as founding editors-in-chief.
Past editors
The following persons have been editor-in-chief of the journal:
- Friedemann Pfäfflin (University of Ulm)
- Eli Coleman (University of Minnesota Medical School)
- Richard Ekins (University of Ulster)
- Dave King (University of Liverpool)
- Walter O. Bockting (Columbia University)
- Walter Pierre Bouman (National Centre for Transgender Health and the University of Nottingham)
See also
References
- ^ "World Professional Association for Transgender Health". WPATH. Archived from the original on 2012-06-14. Retrieved 2012-06-13.
- ^ "Editorial Board". Taylor & Francis.
- ^ "International Journal of Transgender Health". Directory of Open Access Journals. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
- ^ "International Journal of Transgender Health". MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals. University of Barcelona. Retrieved 2024-11-02.
- ^ "International Journal of Transgender Health". 2023 Journal Citation Reports (Science/Social Sciences ed.). Clarivate. 2024 – via Web of Science.
- ^ Bouman, Walter Pierre (8 January 2020). "Sumamus exordio: International Journal of Transgender Health". International Journal of Transgender Health. 21 (1): 1–2. doi:10.1080/15532739.2020.1709316. PMC 7430473. PMID 33015654.
- ^ "Online Anti-LGBTQ Hate Terms Defined: "Transgenderism"". GLAAD. 2 November 2023. Retrieved 9 March 2024.