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Journal of Gerontological Nursing is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.8), WoS SCIE/SSCI. Published by Slack Incorporated.
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ISSN 0098-9134Verify ISSN ↗1938-243XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Slack Incorporated
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nursing (all) | 81 / 144 | 44th | Q3 |
| Gerontology | 27 / 40 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1975–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.8.
Journal of Gerontological Nursing is Q3 in Nursing (all) (rank 81 of 144) and Q3 in Gerontology (rank 27 of 40), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Gerontological Nursing 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 44th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.359, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 62.
Journal of Gerontological Nursing is published by Slack Incorporated. Its print ISSN is 0098-9134 and its online ISSN is 1938-243X.
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.
Journal of Gerontological Nursing has an h-index of 87 and a 2-year mean of 0.91 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #81 of 141 Scopus journals in Nursing (all).
Journal of Gerontological Nursing published 117 papers in 2025. 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 93 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (66.7%), China (10.8%) and South Korea (5.9%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. 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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