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The Journal of Sexual Medicine
Impact Factor 3.6 – 12 issues per year
The Journal of Sexual Medicine (JSM) – Impact Factor 3.6 (2026) – 12 issues per year
The Journal of Sexual Medicine publishes multidisciplinary basic science and clinical research to define and understand the scientific basis of male, female, and couples sexual function and dysfunction. As an official journal of the International Society for Sexual Medicine and the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health, it provides healthcare professionals in sexual medicine with essential educational content and promotes the exchange of scientific information generated from experimental and clinical research.
The Journal of Sexual Medicine includes basic science and clinical research studies in the psychologic and biologic aspects of male, female, and couples sexual function and dysfunction, and highlights new observations and research, results with innovative treatments and all other topics relevant to clinical sexual medicine.
The objective of The Journal of Sexual Medicine is to serve as an interdisciplinary forum to integrate the exchange among disciplines concerned with the whole field of human sexuality. The journal accomplishes this objective by publishing original articles, as well as other scientific and educational documents that support the mission of the International Society for Sexual Medicine.
Current Editor-in-Chief
Landon Trost, MD, (USA)
Landon TrostJSM EiC
SMOA
Sexual Medicine – A Gold Open Access publication
Impact Factor 2.4
Sexual Medicine – a Gold Open Access publication – Impact Factor 2.4 (2026)
ISSM members receive a 50% discount on the publication fee.
An official publication of the International Society for Sexual Medicine, Sexual Medicine publishes multidisciplinary clinical, basic, and epidemiological research to define and understand the basis of sexual function and dysfunction in diverse populations. Sexual Medicine welcomes manuscripts on basic anatomy and physiology pertaining to human sexuality, pharmacology, clinical management of sexual dysfunction, epidemiological studies in sexuality, psychosexual and interpersonal dimensions of human sexuality, clinical trials, and other articles of interest to clinicians and researchers interested in human sexuality. The open access format of Sexual Medicine ensures that accepted manuscripts will be rapidly published and fully accessible by interested healthcare professionals worldwide.Sexual Medicines emphasis on papers relevant to specific populations distinguishes it from The Journal of Sexual Medicine, which will continue to publish manuscripts on issues of general interest to sexual medicine practitioners worldwide, and Sexual Medicine Reviews, which publishes systematic reviews of controversial topics in sexual medicine.
Sexual Medicine will consider all types of original clinical and basic research papers, including studies conducted with human subjects and experimental models, as well as high-quality clinical, epidemiological, and healthcare policy papers related to sexual function and dysfunction. Sexual Medicine particularly focuses on papers of regional or specialty interest, although any manuscript dealing with sexuality research will be considered. Specific interest is in the following areas of content: Education, Epidemiology, Basic Science, Psychology, Outcomes Assessment, Anatomy/Physiology, Intersex and Gender Identity Disorders, Sexual Orientation, Ejaculatory Disorders, Womens Sexual Health, Mens Sexual Health, Couples Sexual Dysfunctions, Pharmacotherapy, Peyronies Disease, Pain, Erectile Dysfunction, Premature Ejaculation, Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder, Dyspareunia, Pharmacotherapy for Sexual Dysfunction, Surgical Management of Sexual Dysfunction, Endocrinology, Oncology.
Current Editor-in-Chief
Professor Giovanni Corona (Italy)
Giovanni CoronaSMOA EiC
Patricia PascoalSMOA Deputy EiC
SMR
Sexual Medicine Reviews
Impact Factor 3.0
Sexual Medicine Reviews (SMR) – Impact Factor 3.0 (2026)
Sexual Medicine Reviews publishes evidence-based, in-depth reviews of the highest caliber on multi-disciplinary clinical or translational topics in Sexual Medicine. These reviews, published quarterly, embrace wide-ranging, comprehensive subjects of sexual function and dysfunction in all genders.
The scope of SMR represents the diversity of subjects in basic science and clinical practice that define sexual health, sexual function, sexual dysfunction and sexual medicine. SMR is targeted at the sexual medicine investigator, practitioner, and trainee, but is also explicitly intended to appeal to and serve the needs of a broader audience of generalists and specialists with interest in or need of a high quality overview of a specific topic in sexual medicine.
SMR accomplishes this objective by publishing high quality, evidence-based reviews that support the mission of the International Society for Sexual Medicine.Current Editor-in-Chief
Article Types
Review—Suggested Maximum Word Count: 5,000
Review articles are timely, in-depth treatment of an issue.
As of May 22, 2023, submission of Review articles to SMR is no longer required to be by invitation only. Authors are welcome to submit Review articles directly in the SMR submission system
Annamaria Giraldi, MD, Ph.D, FECSM (Denmark)
Annamaria GiraldiSMR EiC
Mohamed ArafaSMR Deputy EiC
VJSM
The Video Journal of Sexual Medicine
Faysal A. YafiVJSM EiC
David BarhamVJSM Deputy EiC
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