About this journal
Aims and scope
Clinical Gerontologist: Perspectives on Diversity, Behavioral Health, and Aging presents original research, reviews, and clinical comments focusing on behavioral health outcomes in older adults. We have a particular interest in issues of diversity and disparities as they impact behavioral health of older adults. Published in cooperation with Psychologists in Long Term Care, the journal is designed for both researchers and practitioners.
Topics of interest include:
- depression, anxiety, PTSD and other psychiatric disorders
- adjustment to late life stressors
- family caregiving innovations focusing on mental health outcomes
- psychological assessment
- behavioral aspects of neurocognitive disorders
- mental health care within long term care
- behavioral medicine in aging
- diversity and disparities such as how factors associated with race, culture, spirituality, LGBTQ, disability, SES, and rurality relate to mental health in older adults.
Submissions are peer reviewed by content experts and selected by the editors for scholarship, fit with the journal scope, and relevance to practitioner needs to ensure that the articles are among the best in the field. We publish original research and reviews. We also consider “Clinical Studies" which are quality improvement projects or case studies, describing a novel approach to an important mental health problem that fills a gap in the literature.
The combination of scholarly research, reviews, and clinical studies with direct relevance to daily practice keep you up-to-date on the latest developments. Whether you are a psychologist, physician, nurse, social worker, counselor, clergy or other health professional, Clinical Gerontologist provides the information you need for continued excellence in behavioral healthcare with older adults.
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Journal metrics
Usage
- 156K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 2.6 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 2.7 (2023) 5 year IF
- 6.2 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.982 (2023) SNIP
- 0.932 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 3 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 45 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 8 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 19% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Jennifer Moye, PhD, ABPP
VA Boston Healthcare System and
Harvard Medical School, USA
EDITORS EMERITUS
T.L. Brink, PhD
Dolores E. Gallagher-Thompson*, PhD, ABPP - Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Larry Thompson, PhD, ABPP - Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
*Continuing in role of Associate Editor
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Kanthee Anantapong, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand
Sherry A. Beaudreau - VA Palo Alto HealthCare System and Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Dolores Gallagher-Thompson - Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Andrés Losada-Baltar – Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain
Marcela Otero - Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, Germany
Daniel Paulson - University of Central Florida, USA
Marie Y. Savundranayagam, PhD- Western University and Lawson Health Research Institute, Canada
EDITORIAL BOARD
Alma Au, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong China
Marc-Antoine Bornet, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland
Emily Bower, Pacific University, USA
Shane Bush, University of Alabama, USA
Patrick J. Brown, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, USA
Christina Bryant, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Gerard J. Byrne, The University of Queensland, Australia
Namkee G. Choi, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Sadhna Diwan, San Jose State University, USA
Amy Fiske, West Virginia University, USA
Laura Gallego-Alberto, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Christine Gould, VA Palo Alto Health Care System and Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Rita Hargrave, VA Medical Center, Martinez, USA
Greg Hinrichsen, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Jason Holland, Lifespark, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Lucía Jiménez-Gonzalo, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Rujvi D. Kamat, United States Navy, USA
Naoko Kishita, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
Sang Lee, San Jose State University, USA
Peter Lichtenberg, Wayne State University, USA
Xiaoping Lin, Monash University, Australia
Jeannette Lely, ARQ National Psychotrauma Centrum, Diemen, the Netherlands
Javier López, Universidad San Pablo-CEU, Madrid, Spain
Christine McKibbin, University of Wyoming, USA
Michelle E. Mlinac, VA Boston Healthcare System and Harvard Medical School, USA
Julian Montoro-Rodriguez, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Michael R. Nadorff, Mississippi State University, USA
Boon Peng Ng, University of Central Florida, USA
Kyle S. Page, Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital, USA
Andrew Petkus, University of Southern California, USA
Kathy Rasmussen, VA Northern California Health Care System, USA
Óscar Ribeiro, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Maggie Syme, Marcus Institute for Aging Research, USA
Bas van Alphen, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Kim Van Orden, University of Rochester Medical Center, USA
Margaret Wallhagen, University of California San Francisco, USA
Kristine Williams, University of Kansas School of Nursing, USA
Viviana Wuthrich, Macquarie University, Australia
Gwen Yeo, Stanford Geriatrics Education Center, USA
Richard Zweig, Ferkauf Graduate School of Yeshiva University, USA
STATISTICAL EXPERTS
Amy Amspoker - Michael E. DeBakey Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Francesca Fortenbaugh - VA Boston Healthcare System and Harvard Medical School, USA
José Ángel Martínez-Huertas - National Distance Education University, Spain
ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITORS
Rachael Spalding, PhD - Milwaukee VA Medical Center, USA
Taylor R. Doughtie, MA - Regent University, USA
Anna Magnante, PsyD - Salisbury VA Health Care System, USA
Jennifer A. Birdsall, PhD - ComPsych Corporation, USA
Abstracting and indexing
Abstracted and/or indexed in: Abstracts in Anthropology; Abstracts in Social Gerontology; AgeInfo; Alzheimer’s Disease Education & Referral Center; Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts; British Library Inside; Cambridge Scientific Abstracts; CINAHL; EBSCOhost Online Research Databases; Elsevier Scopus; EMBASE Excerpta Medica; EMBASE.com; Family & Society Studies Worldwide; HealthSTAR (Ovid); IndexCopernicus; Intute; JournalSeek; MedBioWorld; Medline; PsychINFO; PSYCLINE; Thomson-Reuters.
Open access
Clinical Gerontologist is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
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- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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News, offers and calls for papers
News and offers
- FREE ACCESS: Their Time Has Come: Providing Culturally Competent Care to LGBT Older Adults
- Special subscription rate of US$95 for members of ASA & NCOA. Contact +44 (0)20 7017 5543 or [email protected] to subscribe.
Society information
Members of the following groups can receive an individual print and online subscription to Clinical Gerontologist at a special society member rate. Please see the pricing or subscribe page for details.
- American Society on Aging (ASA)
- National Council on Aging (NCOA)
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