Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Sexually Transmitted Diseases is a monthly medical journal of the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association, issued from Philadelphia by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and delivered online through Wolters Kluwer's Ovid platform. Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9.《性传播疾病》（Sexually Transmitted Diseases）是美国性传播疾病研究联盟的月刊，由费城的 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 出版，网络版经 Wolters Kluwer 的 Ovid 平台发行。2025 年影响因子为 1.9。

Volume 1 came out in 1974 under an earlier name, and the present title has run since volume 4 in 1977, so the 2026 volume is the fifty-third in one unbroken sequence.第 1 卷于 1974 年以旧题名问世，现名自 1977 年第 4 卷起沿用，2026 年已出到第 53 卷，卷号前后相承。

Scope

• The stated remit is original peer-reviewed work on the clinical, laboratory, immunologic, epidemiologic, behavioral and historical aspects of sexually transmitted infections and adjacent fields.刊物明列的范围，是性传播感染及相关领域在临床、实验室、免疫学、流行病学、行为学与史学层面的原创同行评审论文。
• Clinical papers deal with diagnosis and treatment at the point of care, from genital ulcer disease and urethritis to pelvic inflammatory disease, epididymitis and the late damage left by untreated infection.临床论文处理一线诊疗，从生殖器溃疡与尿道炎，到盆腔炎、附睾炎，再到感染久拖不治留下的器质损害。
• Laboratory work takes a large share, with nucleic acid amplification, rapid point-of-care assays, syphilis serology and culture-based monitoring of gonococcal susceptibility all represented.实验室工作所占篇幅不小，核酸扩增、即时快速检测、梅毒血清学，以及淋球菌敏感性的培养监测，都能在版面上找到。
• Immunology and pathogenesis are read together with clinical outcome, covering mucosal defense, the interaction of HIV with other infections and the means by which pathogens persist.免疫学与致病机制常与临床结局并读，涵盖黏膜防御、HIV 与其他感染的相互作用，也涵盖病原体赖以存续的手法。
• Epidemiology and surveillance form a standing strand: incidence and prevalence estimates, screening uptake, the yield of partner notification and the geography of outbreaks.流行病学与监测是常设的一条线，涉及发病与患病估计、筛查参与率、伴侣告知的实际收获，以及暴发的地域分布。
• Behavioral and social research sits beside the biomedical content, taking in sexual networks, risk perception, stigma, adherence and the design of prevention counselling.行为学与社会学研究紧挨着生物医学内容，涉及性网络、风险认知、污名、治疗依从性，以及预防咨询的方案设计。
• Modelling, cost-effectiveness analysis and programme evaluation give health departments a quantitative footing when they decide which interventions to fund.建模、成本效果分析与项目评估，让卫生部门在决定资助哪些干预时有量化的落脚点。
• Staff of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention write a large share of what appears, their surveillance counts and programme evaluations standing beside university studies rather than in a separate section.美国疾病控制与预防中心的人员写去相当篇幅，其监测计数与项目评估同大学研究并列刊登，并未另设栏目。
• Control of infection in correctional facilities, in pregnancy and among adolescents and men who have sex with men recurs often enough to count as a specialty of the title.惩教机构、妊娠期、青少年与男男性行为人群中的感染控制，出现之频已够格算作这份刊物的专长。
• Resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Mycoplasma genitalium has become a regular subject, tied to treatment failure and to the shrinking choice of empirical regimens.淋病奈瑟菌与生殖支原体的耐药已成常规题目，与治疗失败、经验用药的选择变窄连在一处。
• Human papillomavirus, vaccine delivery and the follow-up of abnormal cervical screening appear often, a sign of how much of that work now runs through sexual health clinics.人乳头瘤病毒、疫苗投放与宫颈筛查异常结果的随访出现得频繁，可见这类工作已有相当部分走进性健康门诊。
• Congenital and neurosyphilis, ocular involvement and the reading of serologic titres occupy a steady niche, as does HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and its effect on condom use.先天梅毒、神经梅毒、眼部受累与血清滴度判读各占一隅，HIV 暴露前预防及其对安全套使用的影响也一样。
• History is named in the scope, and the journal has printed accounts of earlier anti-venereal campaigns, of changing nomenclature and of the institutions that ran them.史学写进了范围，刊物登过早期性病防治运动的记述，也登过病名更替与经办机构的故事。
• Case reports and short communications appear beside full articles, and letters let readers dispute a result or add an observation from their own clinic.病例报告与短篇通讯与全文并列，读者来信则让人质疑某个结果，或补上自己门诊里的一则观察。

History

• The first volume is dated 1974 and carried the title Journal of the American Venereal Disease Association, issued in Birmingham, Alabama, by Woodbine Publishers for the society of that name.第 1 卷标注 1974 年，题名是 Journal of the American Venereal Disease Association，由（Woodbine Publishers）在阿拉巴马州伯明翰为同名学会印行。
• Three volumes came out under that heading, the last of them in 1976, and the older abbreviation still turns up in reference lists.这个题名下一共出了三卷，末卷在 1976 年，旧缩写在参考文献里至今还能见到。
• Volume 4, number 1 is dated January to March 1977 and already bears the present title, so the change of name followed the volume and not the calendar.第 4 卷第 1 期标注 1977 年 1 月至 3 月，题名已换成现名，更名跟着卷走，没有跟着日历年。
• MEDLINE and PubMed indexing start with that same issue, which is why catalogues record 1977 as the first indexed year while the volume count points back to 1974.MEDLINE 与 PubMed 的收录从这一期起算，检索系统因而把首个收录年记作 1977，卷号却指回 1974。
• J. B. Lippincott of Philadelphia printed the volumes from 1977 onwards, and the imprint has stayed in that city through every later merger.1977 年起的各卷由费城的 J. B. Lippincott 印行，此后公司几经合并，版权页上的城市没有换过。
• Lippincott merged with Williams & Wilkins in 1998 to form Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, which Wolters Kluwer acquired that same year for its health division.Lippincott 于 1998 年与 Williams & Wilkins 合并为 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins，同年被 Wolters Kluwer 收入旗下医疗出版板块。
• Online delivery runs through Ovid, the Wolters Kluwer platform that also licenses the title to institutions, and Crossref registers the publisher under that combined name.网络发行经 Ovid 完成，这个 Wolters Kluwer 平台同时向机构授权本刊，Crossref 也按这个合并后的名字登记出版方。
• Every DOI begins with 10.1097, the prefix shared across the Lippincott list, and records from the 1980s carry the longer 00007435 stem of the older system.所有 DOI 均以 10.1097 开头，这是 Lippincott 系列共用的前缀，1980 年代的记录还带着旧制里更长的 00007435 段。
• Quarterly from 1977 to 1991 and bimonthly from 1992 to 1996, the journal has carried twelve numbers a year since volume 28 in 2001, reaching volume 51 in 2024.1977 至 1991 年为季刊，1992 至 1996 年为双月刊，2001 年第 28 卷起固定为一年十二期，2024 年出到第 51 卷。
• Supplements come as extra numbers inside a volume, such as issue 1S of volume 51, sitting beside the regular twelve rather than displacing one of them.增刊以卷内额外期号出现，如第 51 卷的 1S 期，与十二期正刊并列，不顶替其中任何一期。
• Output in 2025 came to 128 articles against 5228 citations accumulated, with a cited half-life of 8.1 years.2025 年发文 128 篇，累计被引 5228 次，引用半衰期 8.1 年。
• Impact factors over five years read 2.83 for 2021, 3.868 for 2022, 2.4 for 2023, 1.7 for 2024 and 1.9 for 2025, against a five-year figure of 2.2.近五年影响因子依次为 2021 年 2.83、2022 年 3.868、2023 年 2.4、2024 年 1.7 与 2025 年 1.9，五年影响因子 2.2。
• The 2025 placing is 103rd of 141 titles in infectious diseases, a Q3 slot, with a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.49 and a percentile of 27.3.2025 年在传染病学 141 种刊物中列第 103 位，属 Q3，期刊引文指标 0.49，百分位 27.3。
• Gold open access reached 15.75 percent of 2025 output, the remainder sits behind subscription, and authors with a mandate pay for open access at acceptance.2025 年的金色开放论文占 15.75%，余下部分仍在订阅墙内，有开放要求的作者于录用时付费。
• Editorial succession is announced inside the journal, and a short notice in 1986 welcomed a new editor of the title.主编更替在刊物内部公布，1986 年一则短讯即为新任主编接任而发。^[1]
• Signed editorials keep that habit alive, and a 2012 column headed From the Editor shows the form such statements take.署名社论把这一习惯延续下来，2012 年以 From the Editor 为题的栏目文章可作样式。^[2]

Editors

• The journal credits an editorial board of leading scientists for much of what it prints, and the board's expertise maps onto the clinical and laboratory halves of the field.刊物把不少内容归功于一支由领域内资深科学家组成的编委会，编委的专长正对应临床与实验室这两半。
• Editorial work is handled from the publisher's Philadelphia office, the city the imprint has named since 1977.编辑事务在出版方费城的办公室办理，1977 年以来版权页所记的城市一直是费城。
• Manuscripts come in through Editorial Manager, and the system asks for a complete submission rather than a preliminary enquiry about fit.稿件经 Editorial Manager 递交，系统要的是完整投稿，不接受先问合不合范围的做法。
• Original articles are peer reviewed before acceptance, a condition the journal states in its own account of what it publishes.原创论文录用前须经同行评审，刊物在自述刊登内容时写明了这一条。
• Case reports appear in a short format of three pages or fewer, kept apart from the numbered research pages that fill most of an issue.病例报告篇幅很短，一般不超过三页，与占据大半版面的研究论文分列。
• Supplements are often guest edited, and the trace survives in the record: a 2020 issue carries a letter from a guest editor.增刊常由客座编辑主持，痕迹留在记录里，2020 年有一期附了客座编辑的信。^[3]
• Correspondence has its own protocol. Letters headed To the Editor are answered in print, and the reply sometimes comes from the editor rather than the authors.通信另有规矩，以 To the Editor 为题的来信会在版面上得到答复，答复有时出自主编，而非原作者。
• Original research dominates the contents while reviews stay a minority, a mix that has held across recent volumes.原创研究占去大半版面，综述始终是少数，近几卷的构成一直如此。
• The title has kept the word diseases while the field moved to infections, and the abbreviation Sex Transm Dis follows the title rather than the fashion.学科用词已从疾病转向感染，这份刊名仍停在旧词上，缩写 Sex Transm Dis 跟着刊名走，不跟着风气。