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Quality in Ageing and Older Adults is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4), WoS ESCI. Published by Emerald Publishing.
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ISSN 2044-1827Verify ISSN ↗2044-1835Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Care Planning | 7 / 11 | 40th | Q3 |
| Community and Home Care | 26 / 40 | 36th | Q3 |
| Gerontology | 30 / 40 | 26th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
Quality in Ageing and Older Adults is Q3 in Care Planning (rank 7 of 11), Q3 in Community and Home Care (rank 26 of 40) and Q3 in Gerontology (rank 30 of 40), by CiteScore 2025.
Quality in Ageing and Older Adults is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 40th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.268, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 25.
Quality in Ageing and Older Adults is published by Emerald Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2044-1827 and its online ISSN is 2044-1835.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Quality in Ageing and Older Adults has an h-index of 3 and a 2-year mean of 0.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #31 of 39 Scopus journals in Community and Home Care.
Quality in Ageing and Older Adults published 15 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 30 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (33.3%), Netherlands (10%) and India (6.7%).
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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