Academic journal
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:
See also
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