Psychology & Sexuality

Psychology & Sexuality is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 3 of Psychology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy, Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology and Gender, Feminism, and Media, together about 47.1% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Psychology & Sexuality is an international journal which publishes research related to a range of topics asocaited with psychology and sexuality. The journal was founded in 2010 as an outlet for critical, international and interdisciplinary approaches to the psychological study of sexuality, and over time has become a key outlet for pioneering research on sexuality. The current editorial team honours this legacy and particularly invites work that fits within our vision to foreground the following broad topical areas: The psychological experience of sexuality: studies that foreground lived experience and situate data in context Experiences of sexual desire, fantasy and attraction Development of sexual identities Experiences of stigma and prejudice (from the target's perspective) Experiences of resilience rooted in both individual and community Diverse sexual behaviours, practices and identities Sexual subcultures and communities Sexuality and technology: studies that foreground the role of technology, especially social technologies, in the experience and development of sexual identities and practices. The cultural psychology of sexuality: studies that consider questions of cultural variability and particularity, indigenous and non-Western sexualities, intersectional and decolonial approaches to sexuality. Theoretical, conceptual, historical studies of psychology and sexuality: papers that address theoretical, conceptual and historical issues focussed on psychology and sexuality. The following types of submissions will not be considered in the journal: Work that does not take a primarily psychological approach or attend to psychological concepts Work that aggregates "LGBTQ+" experiences, not attending to diversity within Work that focuses solely on gender with little or no consideration of sexuality Work that focusses solely on sexual health Work that delegitimizes sexual and/or gender diversity Work that uncritically relies on WEIRD (i.e. Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) samples, without acknowledging limitations Work that does not acknowledge the historical and social context of the research Please note that all submissions must follow reporting standards articulated for qualitative and mixed-methods research by the American Psychological Association (see Levitt et al., 2018). The geographic location of data collection must be specified in the title and/or abstract of all submissions. All manuscript submissions are subject to initial ap

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Editor-in-chief Phillip HammackPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• CiteScore Q1 · 2025

Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website

Database indexing

SSCIScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.

Impact

Impact factor

1.55LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

1.6Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

3.1Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

5.4LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

5.4Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.87LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.87Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SNIP 2026-06

1.48LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

1.48Publisher website · 2026-09-29

h-index

54OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

266OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.53OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

6.2%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

10.91%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

68LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

198,000Publisher website · 2026-09-29

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Other sources

Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025

26%Publisher website · 2026-09-29

Submission to first decision 2025

14 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

First decision after review 2025

77 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Acceptance to publication 2025

13 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

1941-9899

Electronic ISSN

1941-9902

Latest issue on the website

Volume 17, Issue 3 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website