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Psychology of Men & Masculinities

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 7, 2023
Entity authorityQ15716585 ↗
Source-derived summary

Psychology of Men & Masculinities (originally Psychology of Men & Masculinity) is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Psychological Association on behalf of Division 51. The journal was established in 2000 and covers research on "how boys' and men's psychology is influenced and shaped by both gender and sex, and encompasses the study of the social construction of gender, sex differences and similarities, and biological processes." The current editor-in-chief is Y. Joel Wong, PhD.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, Scopus, PsycINFO, Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences, and CINAHL Plus. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 2.948.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2000-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Psychology, Masculinities and journal can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Psychology of Men & Masculinities” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.