key: cord-0701726-3y2vlesm authors: Zucker, Kenneth J. title: Archives at 50 Years date: 2021-01-28 journal: Arch Sex Behav DOI: 10.1007/s10508-021-01913-0 sha: a7ee186e17efa7dc622e42ce0e47a6622c2ce5dc doc_id: 701726 cord_uid: 3y2vlesm nan Under Paul Vasey's leadership, we inaugurated by invitation the Target Article series (Vasey & Zucker, 2016) . In 2020, we published one Target Article (Feinstein, 2020) , along with 7 Commentaries and a response by Feinstein. Seven other Target Articles are currently online first Davis & Arnocky, 2020; Lalumière, Sawatsky, Dawson, & Suschinsky, 2019; Pfau, Jordan, & Breedlove, 2019; Reynolds, 2021; Ziogas, Habermeyer, Santtila, Poeppl, & Mokros, 2019) . Researchers interested in proposing a Target Article should contact Dr. Vasey at paul.vasey@uleth.ca. In 2020, we published two special sections: Social and Behavioral Science with Gay and Bisexual Men in the Era of Biomedical Prevention (Guest Edited by Michael Newcomb and H. Jonathon Rendina) and IASR 2018 Symposium on Consensual Non-Monogamy (Guest Edited by Lisa Dawn Hamilton). In the current issue, there is a special section entitled Innovative Knowledge Translation in Sex Research (Guest Edited by Natalie O. Rosen and Lori A. Brotto). Two special sections are in the works: Consensual Non-Monogamy (Guest Edited by Lisa Dawn Hamilton, Carm de Santis, and Ashley E. Thompson) and Impact of COVID-19 on Sexual Health and Behavior (Guest Edited by Lori A. Scott-Sheldon, Kristen P. Mark, Rhonda Balzarini, and Lisa L. M. Welling). 1 The journal also publishes Guest Editorials, Commentaries, and Letters to the Editor, all of which, in my view, play a useful role in intellectual discourse. Guest Editorials typically address a topic of general interest and which has received media attention (e.g., Scott-Sheldon & Chan, 2020). Commentaries address both specific and general issues of relevance to the sexological community (e.g., Imhoff, 2020; Lorenz, 2020; McCarthy et al., in press; Sakaluk, 2020) . Not all journals publish Letters to the Editor. Letters to the Editor in Archives fall into two general categories: a response to a published paper (and the authors of such are always given the opportunity to reply) or on a topic that might be of interest to some readers of the journal. Not all Letters to the Editor are accepted for publication. Letters are vetted by me and, in the case of those that might be deemed "controversial," subject to peer review. In 2020, we published three Guest Editorials, 9 Commentaries, and 31 Letters to the Editor. 2 In 2019, the percentage of "rejected" manuscripts was 53.3%, "major revision" was 38.7%, and "provisional accept" was 7.8%. These figures remain fairly consistent with prior years (e.g., Zucker, 2018 Zucker, , 2020 . For contributing authors, it is important to note that when manuscripts are given the designation of a Major Revision, the vast majority (of those that are resubmitted) are accepted for publication. (It is uncommon for a Major Revision to be declined after resubmission: to quote a colleague, "It happens," but not very often.) This means that the initial decision indicates that the author has a "foot in the door" and that if she, he, or they can successfully respond to the first round of reviews it means that the manuscript is very likely to be accepted for publication. For the uninitiated to this treasure trove of numbers, a journal's IF for a given year is a measure of the frequency with which its recent articles are cited on average during that year. In 2020, renamed International Journal of Transgender Health, not to be confused with the periodical Transgender Health, which as of yet does not have an Impact Factor rating c Body Image (Vols. 28-31) was hit with a curveball in 2019 in that Clarivate Analytics, which provides the annual Journal Citation Reports information, deemed that it had an excessive number of self-cites. The journal appealed the decision, on the grounds that it was a highly specialized journal, but the appeal was denied (https ://retra ction watch .com/2020/08/28/major -index ing-servi ce-rejec ts-appea ls-by-two-suppr essed -journ als/). If Clarivate Analytics consulted with specialty sex/gender Editors (like me), I would have taken the position that Body Image is a wellrespected journal and that an exception to the rule would have been warranted It can also be seen in Table 1 that the Archives is publishing a lot of articles/year: 161 in 2019. These numbers are notably higher than many of the other sex/gender social science periodicals (e.g., Journal of Sex Research: 74, Evolution and Human Behavior: 54; Psychology of Women Quarterly, 53; Sexual Abuse: 45). We even published more articles than Journal of Sexual Medicine (150). Of course, quantity does not equal quality. Moreover, one should recognize that to "maintain" an IF the numerator must keep pace with the denominator. On this point, we seem to be doing just fine and our initial disposition decisions have remained fairly constant in recent years. For those readers who enjoy numbers, Table 1 gives you a lot to chew on. Female genital cutting and deinfibulation: Applying the theory of planned behavior to research and practice Understanding womens responses to sexual pain after female genital cutting: An integrative psychological pain response model An evolutionary perspective on appearance enhancement behavior How is the COVID-19 pandemic affecting our sexualities? An overview of the current media narratives and research hypotheses The Rejection Sensitivity Model as a framework for understanding sexual minority mental health Experience with pornography: Rapists, pedophiles, homosexuals, transsexuals, and controls Assessment of evidential value requires more than a single data point Paucity and disparity of publicly available sex-disaggregated data for the COVID-19 epidemic hamper evidencebased decision-making The empirical status of the preparation hypothesis: Explicating womens genital responses to sexual stimuli in the laboratory Response to Sakaluk (2020): Let's get serious about including qualitative researchers in the open science conversation Broad agreement, but notes of caution with the implications of Sakaluk's (2020) critique of Wisman amd Shira The Attitudes Toward Men Who Pay for Sex scale: Development and preliminary validation The de-scent of sexuality: Did loss of a pheromone signaling protein permit the evolution of same-sex sexual behavior in primates? Archives of Sexual Behavior Our grandmothers' legacy: Challenges faced by female ancestors leave traces in modern women's same-sex relationships Getting serious about the assessment and promotion of replicable sexual science: A commentary on Wisman and Shrira (2020) and Lorenz Increasing sexually transmitted infections in the U.S.: A call for action for research, clinical, and public health practice The role of service providers, technology, and mass media when home isn't safe for intimate partner violence victims: Best practices and recommendations in the era of COVID-19 and beyond You have to wait a little longer": Transgender (mental) health at risk as a consequence of deferring gender-affirming treatments during COVID-19 Target article feature Neuroelectric correlates of human sexuality: A review and meta-analysis Sex/gender/sexual science research 24 The 2020s: The next decade for the Archives of Sexual Behavior Publisher's Note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations Acknowledgments I would like to thank my colleagues at the Springer Nature office in India (particularly Saranya Karunakaran and Subhashini Gopal) and David Seidenfeld at the New York office in lower Manhattan for their tireless efforts in keeping things running smoothly. Carol Bischoff, my boss at Springer, has been a chronic champion of the Journal and its relationship with the International Academy of Sex Research. The Journal's dedication to the science of sex and gender would not be possible without her terrific support. Lastly, I want to thank my colleague Dr. Cindy Graham, Editor of Journal of Sex Research, with whom I have frequent discussions regarding the day-to-day vicissitudes of serving as gateways to publishing life.