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Journal of Homosexuality

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMay 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ1514304 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Journal of Homosexuality is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research into sexual practices and gender roles in their cultural, historical, interpersonal, and modern social contexts.

History

The founding editor-in-chief was Charles Silverstein. After the first volume, the journal was edited by John Paul De Cecco who stayed on for about 50 volumes. The current editor-in-chief is John Elia (San Francisco State University). The journal was originally published by the Haworth Press, until it was acquired by Taylor & Francis, who now publish it under their Routledge imprint.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, MEDLINE, Current Contents, PsycINFO, Sociological Abstracts, Social Work Abstracts, Abstracts in Anthropology, Criminal Justice Abstracts, Studies on Women & Gender Abstracts, AgeLine, and Education Research Abstracts. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 0.862.

See also

List of academic journals in sexology

References

Further reading

Joyce S, Schrader AM (1999). "Twenty years of the Journal of Homosexuality: a bibliometric examination of the first 24 volumes, 1974–1993". Journal of Homosexuality.

Editorial summary

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Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 1999, 1974, 1993—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1955. The account is most persuasive where Journal, Homosexuality and scientific can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the science & nature register because the source frames it as scientific journal. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Journal of Homosexuality” 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.