Aging (journal)

Aging

Discipline	Gerontology
Language	English
Edited  by	Jan Vijg, David Andrew Sinclair, Vera Gorbunova, Mikhail V. Blagosklonny
Publication details
History	2009–present
Publisher	Impact Journals
Frequency	Bimonthly
Open access	Yes
Impact factor	5.955 (2021)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Aging (Albany N.Y.)
Indexing CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR  · NLM (alt) · Scopus  · W&L
ISSN	1945-4589
LCCN	2008212863
OCLC  no.	252820116
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

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, and Mikhail V. Blagosklonny.

Abstracting and Indexing

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]}

Reception

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]

References

1. "2nd Interventions in Aging Conference". Fusion Conferences Ltd. Archived from the original on 2017-08-13. Retrieved 2017-06-22.
2. "Aging". NLM Catalog. National Center for Biotechnology Information . Retrieved 2015-11-17.
3. "Embase content". Elsevier. Retrieved 2017-06-23.
4. "Biological abstracts - Journal list". Clarivate Analytics. Archived from the original on 2017-08-12. Retrieved 2017-06-23.
5. "Journal rankings on Aging". SJR. Retrieved 2017-06-22.
6. "Aging". www.aging-us.com. Retrieved 2021-07-14.
7. "Aging-US". 2020 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2021-07-14.
8. "List of standalone journals". Scholarly Open Access. 2017-01-03. Archived from the original on 2017-01-03. Retrieved 2017-06-28.
9. Beall, Jeffrey. "List of publishers". Scholarly Open Access. Archived from the original on 2016-09-17. Retrieved 2015-11-17.
10. "Oncotarget Journal Cut from Medline". The Scientist Magazine. Retrieved 2020-01-20.
11. "Mikhail Blagosklonny's Journal Aging: A Review". Scholarly Open Access. 6 December 2016. Archived from the original on 24 December 2016. Retrieved 17 January 2017.