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Clinical Gerontologist is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.4), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0731-7115Verify ISSN ↗1545-2301Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gerontology | 3 / 40 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Health (social science) | 28 / 387 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Clinical Psychology | 32 / 314 | 89th | Q1 |
| Social Psychology | 35 / 315 | 89th | Q1 |
| Geriatrics and Gerontology | 18 / 123 | 85th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1982–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.4.
Clinical Gerontologist is Q1 in Gerontology (rank 3 of 40), Q1 in Health (social science) (rank 28 of 387) and Q1 in Clinical Psychology (rank 32 of 314), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Clinical Gerontologist is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 7.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.016, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 49.
Clinical Gerontologist is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0731-7115 and its online ISSN is 1545-2301.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Clinical Gerontologist has an h-index of 66 and a 2-year mean of 2.46 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #8 of 40 Scopus journals in Gerontology.
Clinical Gerontologist published 86 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 107. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (35.9%), China (12.5%) and Türkiye (6.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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