About this journal
Aims and scope
This comprehensive journal is recognized for its useful balance of research and clinical practice articles. For more than 25 years Physical & Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics has functioned as a forum for rehabilitation health care professionals and scientists to share research that advances preventative, clinical, educational and therapeutic practices. The issues addressed in the journal focus on current, emerging and innovative areas of care and prevention that cross the healthcare continuum that support evidence-informed management of the older client including: health and wellness; prevention of aging-related functional decline and injury; innovative programming; clinical and technological advances; policy, and the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed for working with older clients.
Physical & Occupational Therapy in Geriatrics is innovative and timely. In addition to the wealth of information found in each scheduled issue, occasional thematic issues devoted to critical issues or professional challenges will become frequently used references in personal libraries. Past thematic issues have focused on:
- Aging in place
- Community mobility: driving and the elderly
- Complementary and alternative interventions medicine in geriatrics
- Therapeutic interventions for persons with dementia
- Teaching students about geriatric research
- Practice and program implications for aging with a developmental disability
Journal metrics
Usage
- 47K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 0.3 (2023) Impact Factor
- 0.7 (2023) 5 year IF
- 1.3 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.420 (2023) SNIP
- 0.247 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 54 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 74 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 11 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 31% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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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:
Edgar Ramos Vieira, PT, MSc, PhD
Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
Associate Editors:
Chiung-ju Liu PHD, OTR/L, FGSA
Department of Occupational Therapy, College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida, FL, USA
Rubens Alexandre da Silva Jr, Ph.D., pht
University of Quebec at Chicoutimi, Quebec, CAN
Editorial Board:
Donald Auriemma, MS Ed, OTR/L
Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy, York College, CUNY, NY, USA
Sébastien Boyas, PhD
Associate Professor, Le Mans University, Le Mans, France
Ann Burkhardt, OTD, OTR/L, BCN, FAOTA
Clinical Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT, USA
Tracy Chippendale, PhD, OTR/L
Assistant Professor, New York University, NY, USA
Joseph Cipriani, Ed.D., OTR/L
Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy, Misericordia University, Dallas, PA, USA
Cristina Cortis, PhD, FACSM
Professor, Department of Human Sciences, Society and Health, University of Cassino e Lazio Meridionale, Cassino, Italy
Ramon Daniels, PhD, BSc OT, MSc OT
Senior Lecturer, Zuyd University, Heerlen, Netherlands
Staffan Elgelid, PhD, PT, CFT, LMT
Associate Professor, Physical Therapy, Nazareth College, Pittsford, NY, USA
Glen Gillen, EdD, OTR
Assistant Professor, Programs in Occupational Therapy, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Hao (Howe) Liu, PT, PhD, MD
Associate Professor of Physical Therapy, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX, USA
Lili Liu, OT, PhD
Professor and Dean, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Alvaro Campos Cavalcanti Maciel, PT, PhD
Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, Brazil
Martina McNulty, PhD, OTR/L
Assistant Professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Utah, UT, USA
Mary Roduta Roberts, Ph.D., OT(C)
Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Alberta, Canada
Joan Rogers, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA
Chairperson, Occupational Therapy, Professor of Occupational Therapy, Psychiatry and Nursing, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Neva Kirk Sanchez, PhD, PT
Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
Jon A. Sanford, M.Arch
Adjunct Associate Professor, Center for AT and Environmental Access (CATEA), Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, USA
David E. Vance, PhD, MGS
Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA
Abstracting and indexing
Open access
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