Aims and scope
Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) is the world's longest running international journal dealing with issues of sexual health and medicine. STI publishes original work on the clinical, epidemiological, and laboratory aspects of sexual health, sexually transmitted infections, and HIV and AIDS.
STI aims to keep clinicians epidemiologists, public health physicians and scientists and others up to date with advances in the diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infections, HIV and AIDS, using a balance of the highest-quality peer-reviewed original research and commissioned material. Each issue includes original articles together with editorials, commentaries, review articles, articles describing research methodology, clinicopathological conferences and case reports. To ensure international relevance, STI has an Assistant Editor in Africa, Associate Editors in the US and Editorial Board members from all around the world including Europe, US, Australasia and the Far East.
STI is the official journal of the British Association of Sexual Health and HIV, and is published jointly with the BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. Members of the Australasian College of Sexual Health Physicians receive online access to STI via their society website.
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Editorial policy
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Lead times
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Median time from submission to first decision = 5 weeks
- 50% of papers rejected without external peer review within 1 week
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Time from acceptance to publication = 4 months
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