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Biology of Sex Differences is a peer-reviewed journal published by BMC (BioMed Central), covering Sex and Gender in Healthcare, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities. Over its lifetime it has published 1,022 papers, which have received 36,528 citations.

PublisherBMC (BioMed Central)
Reference styleNumbered (Vancouver)
Numbered — [1], [2] in the text
1. Smith A, Jones B, Lee C. A representative article title. Biology of Sex Differences. 2023;12(3):45–58.

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Publishes research inSex and Gender in Healthcare Stress Responses and Cortisol Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones Menopause: Health Impacts and Treatments
ISSN2042-6410
Citation impact (2-yr)4.33
h-index93
i10-index599
Article processing charge$2,318
Open accessYes — indexed in DOAJ
Top institutions publishing hereUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Journal websitelink.springer.com
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Papers published in Biology of Sex Differences per year

18
2014
35
2015
68
2016
38
2017
54
2018
62
2019
67
2020
66
2021
75
2022
90
2023
106
2024
128
2025

Citation impact of Biology of Sex Differences by publication year

1.2K
2014
3.1K
2015
3.3K
2016
2.5K
2017
3K
2018
2.8K
2019
5.6K
2020
2.2K
2021
2.1K
2022
1.6K
2023
1.1K
2024
414
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Biology of Sex Differences

Impact of sex and gender on COVID-19 outcomes in Europe

Cathérine Gebhard, Vera Regitz‐Zagrosek, Hannelore Neuhauser et al. · 25 May 2020

BACKGROUND: Emerging evidence from China suggests that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is deadlier for infected men than women with a 2.8% fatality rate being reported in Chinese men versus 1.7% in women. Further, sex-disaggregated data for COVID-19 in several European countries show a similar number of cases between the sexes, but more severe outcomes in…

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Sex differences in human adipose tissues – the biology of pear shape

Kalypso Karastergiou, Steven R. Smith, Andrew S. Greenberg et al. · 31 May 2012

Women have more body fat than men, but in contrast to the deleterious metabolic consequences of the central obesity typical of men, the pear-shaped body fat distribution of many women is associated with lower cardiometabolic risk. To understand the mechanisms regulating adiposity and adipose tissue distribution in men and women, significant research attention has focused…

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The protective role of estrogen and estrogen receptors in cardiovascular disease and the controversial use of estrogen therapy

Andrea Iorga, Christine M. Cunningham, Shayan Moazeni et al. · 24 Oct 2017

Epidemiologic studies have previously suggested that premenopausal females have reduced incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) when compared to age-matched males, and the incidence and severity of CVD increases postmenopause. The lower incidence of cardiovascular disease in women during reproductive age is attributed at least in part to estrogen (E2). E2 binds to the traditional E2…

Sex differences in pharmacokinetics predict adverse drug reactions in women

Irving Zucker, Brian J. Prendergast · 5 Jun 2020

BACKGROUND: Women experience adverse drug reactions, ADRs, nearly twice as often as men, yet the role of sex as a biological factor in the generation of ADRs is poorly understood. Most drugs currently in use were approved based on clinical trials conducted on men, so women may be overmedicated. We determined whether sex differences in…

Sex differences in metabolic homeostasis, diabetes, and obesity

Franck Mauvais‐Jarvis · 13 Aug 2015

There are fundamental aspects of the control of metabolic homeostasis that are regulated differently in males and females. This sex asymmetry represents an evolutionary paradigm for females to resist the loss of energy stores. This perspective discusses the most fundamental sex differences in metabolic homeostasis, diabetes, and obesity. Together, the role of genetic sex, the…

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