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Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.9), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1935-9705Verify ISSN ↗1935-9713Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health (social science) | 48 / 387 | 87th | Q1 |
| Clinical Psychology | 57 / 314 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 143 / 580 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–2025, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.9.
Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health is Q1 in Health (social science) (rank 48 of 387), Q1 in Clinical Psychology (rank 57 of 314) and Q1 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 143 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 5.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.005, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 47.
Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1935-9705 and its online ISSN is 1935-9713.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health has an h-index of 49 and a 2-year mean of 2.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #80 of 378 Scopus journals in Health (social science).
Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health published 7 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 47. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 95 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from United States (62.1%), Canada (10.5%) and United Kingdom (5.5%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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