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Aims and scope of journal
International Journal of Impotence Research: The Journal of Sexual Medicine addresses sexual medicine for both genders as an interdisciplinary field. This includes basic science researchers, urologists, endocrinologists, cardiologists, family practitioners, gynecologists, internists, neurologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, radiologists and other health care clinicians. Areas of interest include:
Clinical:
- Design and methodology of clinical trials of men's and women's sexual dysfunction
- Psychological assessment of sexual dysfunction
- History and physical examination of men's and women's sexual dysfunction
- Diagnostic testing (vascular, neurologic, endocrinologic, anatomic, psychologic, nocturnal engorgement/rigidity, genital tissue biopsy, etc) of men's and women's sexual dysfunction
Treatment:
- Primary care perspective in the treatment of men's and women's sexual dysfunction
- Modification of reversible causes of men's and women's sexual dysfunction
- Sex steroid therapies for men's and women's sexual dysfunction
- Vacuum devices for men's and women's sexual dysfunction
- Psychotherapy in the treatment of men's and women's sexual dysfunction
- Oral vasoactive agents for the treatment of men's and women's sexual dysfunction
- Topical treatment for men's and women's sexual dysfunction
- Intra-urethral and intracavernosal therapy for erectile dysfunction
- Penile prosthesis for the treatment of erectile dysfunction
- Microvascular arterial bypass surgery/Venous leak surgery for erectile dysfunction
Basic science:
- History of men's and women's sexual dysfunction
- Epidemiology of men's and women's sexual dysfunction
- Anatomy (gross and microscopic) of men's and women's sexual function
- Animal models used in the study of men's and women's sexual dysfunction
- Vascular physiology of men's and women's genital arousal
- Neurophysiology of men's and women's sexual function
- Central nervous system control of men's and women's sexual function
- Endocrinology of men's and women's sexual function
- Molecular biologic studies in men's and women's sexual function
- Pharmacologic studies in men's and women's sexual function
- Risk factors for men's and women's sexual dysfunction
- Iatrogenic men's and women's sexual dysfunction
Special problems:
- Peyronie's disease of tunica albuginea (penile and clitoral)
- Priapism of penis and clitoris
- Diabetes mellitus and men's and women's sexual dysfunction
- Chronic renal failure and men's and women's sexual dysfunction
- Spinal cord injury and men's and women's sexual dysfunction
- Blunt trauma and men's and women's sexual dysfunction
- Pelvic cancer treatments and men's and women's sexual dysfunction
- Causes and treatment of men's and women's ejaculatory/orgasmic disorders
- Causes and treatment of men's and women's sexual pain disorders
- Gene modification and therapy
- Genital lengthening/girth enhancement surgery
Impact Factor
Impact Factor: 2.059*
Rank:
24/55 Urology and Nephrology
*2007 Journal Citation Report (Thomson Reuters, 2008)
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Index Medicus/MEDLINE
Elsevier BIOBASE/Current Awareness in Biological Sciences
Current Opinion in Urology
Excerpta Medica/EMBASE
Current Contents/Clinical Medicine
Research Alert
SciSearch
Science Citation Index
UK Health Centre Index
ISSN and eISSN
The international standard serial number (ISSN) for International Journal of Impotence Research is 0955-9930, and the electronic international standard serial number (eISSN) is 1476-5489.
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Editor-in-Chief
Allen D Seftel, USA
Associate Editors
S Althof, USA
G Christ, USA
M DiSanto, USA
V Fonseca, USA
R Kloner, USA
L Kuritzky, USA
J Mulcahy, USA
H Padma-Nathan, USA
Editorial Board
R Basson, Canada
D Bodner, USA
M Chancellor, USA
WS Chung, South Korea
R Debusk, USA
ME Dunn, USA
K Esposito, Italy
S Francis, USA
A Hutter, USA
S Kaplan, USA
S Kingsberg, USA
L Lipshultz, USA
S Madersbacher, Austria
M Miner, USA
R Moreland, USA
C Neiderberger, USA
M O'Leary, USA
DF Penson, USA
J Rajfer, USA
C Roehrborn, USA
D Rowland, USA
E Schwarz, USA
RT Segraves, USA
J Shifren, USA
G Sklar, USA
RF Spark, USA
W Utian, USA
