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Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.9), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Medizin.
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ISSN 0948-6704Verify ISSN ↗1435-1269Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Medizin
Cost to publish: About US$3,390 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health (social science) | 224 / 387 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects | 33 / 53 | 38th | Q3 |
| Gerontology | 26 / 40 | 36th | Q3 |
| Geriatrics and Gerontology | 90 / 123 | 27th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.9.
Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie is Q3 in Health (social science) (rank 224 of 387), Q3 in Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects (rank 33 of 53) and Q3 in Gerontology (rank 26 of 40), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie 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 1.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 42nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.303, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 51.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,390 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.
Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie is published by Springer Medizin. Its print ISSN is 0948-6704 and its online ISSN is 1435-1269.
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.
Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie has an h-index of 60 and a 2-year mean of 0.71 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #262 of 378 Scopus journals in Health (social science).
Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie published 139 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 194. 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 80 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Germany (74.5%), Austria (12.6%) and United States (3.1%). 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.
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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