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| Discipline | Sexology |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Damien Riggs |
| Publication details | |
Former name | International Journal of Transgenderism |
| History | 1997–present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| 10.5 (2023) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Int. J. Transgend. Health |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| ISSN | 2689-5269 (print) 2689-5277 (web) |
| LCCN | 2004213389 |
| OCLC no. | 56795128 |
International Journal of Transgenderism | |
| ISSN | 1553-2739 (print) 1434-4599 (web) |
| Links | |
TheInternational Journal of Transgender Health is a quarterlypeer-reviewedacademic journal covering research ongender dysphoria and gender incongruence, themedical treatment of transgender individuals, social and legal acceptance ofgender-affirming surgery, and professional and public education ontransgender health. It also publishes theStandards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People on behalf of theWorld 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 byTaylor & Francis and theeditor-in-chief is Damien Riggs (Flinders University).[2]
The journal is abstracted and indexed inCINAHL, theDirectory of Open Access Journals,[3]EBSCO databases,PsycINFO,Science Citation Index Expanded,Scopus, and theSocial Sciences Citation Index.[4] According to theJournal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023impact factor of 10.5.[5]
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 in the field”, pointing out that language in the field constantly evolves, and new terms being used “according to the degree to which it embraces a respectful, nonpathologizing, human rights–based perspective.”[6] withFriedemann Pfäfflin andEli Coleman as founding editors-in-chief.
The following persons have been editor-in-chief of the journal: