Aging is a bimonthly peer-reviewed open access bio-medical journal covering research on all aspects of gerontology. The journal was established in 2009 and is published by Impact Journals. The editors-in-chief are Jan Vijg, David Andrew Sinclair, Vera Gorbunova, Judith Campisi, Mikhail V. Blagosklonny.
Discipline | Gerontology |
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Language | English |
Edited by | Jan Vijg, David Andrew Sinclair, Vera Gorbunova, Judith Campisi, Mikhail V. Blagosklonny |
Publication details | |
History | 2009–present |
Publisher | Impact Journals |
Frequency | Bimonthly |
Yes | |
5.955 (2021) | |
Standard abbreviations | |
ISO 4 | Aging (Albany N.Y.) |
Indexing | |
ISSN | 1945-4589 |
LCCN | 2008212863 |
OCLC no. | 252820116 |
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The journal is abstracted and indexed in ISI/Web of Science: Science Citation Index Expanded in the categories of Cell Biology and Geriatrics & Gerontology.[1] The journal is archived in PubMed Central (PMC) and is indexed in Index Medicus/MEDLINE, PubMed,[2] Meta, EMBASE,[3] BIOSIS Previews,[4] and Scopus. According to Scopus/Scimago Journal Rank (2015), Aging is ranked number 3 on Cites/Docs (2 years) in the Aging category.[5]
The journal has a 2021 impact factor of 5.955.[6][7]
The peer review process employed by the journal has been criticized by Jeffrey Beall, a university librarian and expert on predatory open access publishing, who also included the journal and its publisher on his list of "potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals" in July 2015.[8][9] Allegedly, journal editor Mikhail Blagosklonny responded by threatening to retract the papers of Beall's colleagues at the University of Colorado.[10] It has been alleged that the journal has gamed their impact factor by requiring authors to provide references to other recent papers in the journal and does not conduct adequate peer-reviews of articles.[11]