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Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.8), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Gerontological Society of America.
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ISSN 1079-5014Verify ISSN ↗1758-5368Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Gerontological Society of America
Cost to publish: About US$4,408 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 107 / 1530 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Health (social science) | 34 / 387 | 91st | Q1 |
| Life-span and Life-course Studies | 8 / 61 | 87th | Q1 |
| Geriatrics and Gerontology | 27 / 123 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.8.
Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 107 of 1530), Q1 in Health (social science) (rank 34 of 387) and Q1 in Life-span and Life-course Studies (rank 8 of 61), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 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 6.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.503, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 193.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,408 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences is published by Gerontological Society of America. Its print ISSN is 1079-5014 and its online ISSN is 1758-5368.
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.
Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences has an h-index of 227 and a 2-year mean of 2.92 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #126 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences published 281 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (57%), China (5.6%) and Canada (5.5%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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