Age and Ageing explained

Age and Ageing
Abbreviation:	Age Ageing
Cover:	Age and ageing cover.gif
Editor:	Rowan Harwood
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Frequency:	Bimonthly
Discipline:	Geriatric medicine
History:	1972-present
Impact:	10.668
Impact-Year:	2020
Website:	http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/
Link1:	http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/content/current
Link1-Name:	Online access
Link2:	http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/archive
Link2-Name:	Online archive
Issn:	0002-0729
Eissn:	1468-2834

Age and Ageing is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering all aspects of geriatric medicine and gerontology. It was established in 1972 and is published by Oxford University Press. It is the official journal of the British Geriatrics Society and the editor-in-chief is Rowan Harwood (University of Nottingham).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in CINAHL, EMBASE, Science Citation Index, Scopus, and MEDLINE/PubMed. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 10.668.^[1]

Editors-in-chief

The following persons have been editor-in-chief of the journal:^[2]

• A. N. Exton-Smith and H. M. Hodkinson (1972–1985)
• H. M. Hodkinson (1986–1987)
• J. Grimley Evans (1988–1995)
• G. P. Mulley (1996–2001)
• G. K. Wilcock (2002–2007)
• R. M. Francis (2007–2014)
• David J. Stott (2014-2019
• Rowan Harwood (2019–present)

Notes and References

1. Book: 2021 . Age and Ageing . . . Science . Web of Science.
2. Web site: Editors Past & Present . British Geriatrics Society . 2016-01-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160810101039/http://www.bgs.org.uk/index.php/age-ageing-main/ageingeditors-2 . 2016-08-10 . dead .