Aging(journal)
Discipline | Gerontology |
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Language | English |
Editedby | 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 |
OCLCno. | 252820116 |
Links | |
Agingis a bimonthlypeer-reviewedopen accessbio-medical journal covering research on all aspects ofgerontology.The journal was established in 2009 and is published by Impact Journals. Theeditors-in-chiefareJan Vijg,David Andrew Sinclair,Vera Gorbunova,Judith Campisi,Mikhail V. Blagosklonny.
Abstracting and Indexing
[edit]The journal is abstracted and indexed in ISI/Web of Science:Science Citation Index Expandedin the categories of Cell Biology and Geriatrics & Gerontology.[1]The journal is archived inPubMed Central(PMC) and is indexed inIndex Medicus/MEDLINE,PubMed,[2]Meta,EMBASE,[3]BIOSIS Previews,[4]andScopus.According toScopus/Scimago Journal Rank(2015),Agingis ranked number 3 on Cites/Docs (2 years) in the Aging category.[5]
The journal has a 2021impact factorof 5.955.[6][7]
Reception
[edit]The peer review process employed by the journal has been criticized byJeffrey Beall,a university librarian and expert onpredatory 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 theUniversity 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]
References
[edit]- ^"2nd Interventions in Aging Conference".Fusion Conferences Ltd.Retrieved2017-06-22.
- ^"Aging".NLM Catalog.National Center for Biotechnology Information.Retrieved2015-11-17.
- ^"Embase content".Elsevier.Retrieved2017-06-23.
- ^"Biological abstracts - Journal list".Clarivate Analytics. Archived fromthe originalon 2017-08-12.Retrieved2017-06-23.
- ^"Journal rankings on Aging".SJR.Retrieved2017-06-22.
- ^"Aging".www.aging-us.com.Retrieved2021-07-14.
- ^"Aging-US".2020 Journal Citation Reports.Web of Science(Science ed.).Clarivate.2021-07-14.
- ^"List of standalone journals".Scholarly Open Access.2017-01-03. Archived fromthe originalon 2017-01-03.Retrieved2017-06-28.
- ^Beall, Jeffrey."List of publishers".Scholarly Open Access.Archived fromthe originalon 2016-09-17.Retrieved2015-11-17.
- ^"Oncotarget Journal Cut from Medline".The Scientist Magazine.Retrieved2020-01-20.
- ^"Mikhail Blagosklonny's Journal Aging: A Review".Scholarly Open Access.6 December 2016. Archived fromthe originalon 24 December 2016.Retrieved17 January2017.