Journal profile · Medicine-Geriatrics and Gerontology
Aging Medicine
ISSN 2475-0360 · Wiley · Australia
Aging Medicine: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.1 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 2,200; median 192 days to acceptance (84 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 36% (journal website); 71 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Aging Medicine is published by Wiley and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Frailty in Older Adults, Nutrition and Health in Aging and Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, together about 34.1% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Aging Medicine aims to facilitate international collaboration and exchange of comprehensive and cutting-edge information on basic, translational, and applied clinical research as well as epidemiological and translational studies in geriatrics. Aging Medicine is a peer-reviewed, open access, interdisciplinary journal providing rapid publication of cutting-edge research from global biomedical researchers across the aging sciences. Aging Medicine presents the findings that are of interest in the field of aging medicine: experimental/translational and clinical aging research, prevention medicine, palliative medicine, pharmacology and techniques applying to aging medicine. Aging Medicine is hosted by Beijing Hospital/ National Center of Gerontology, China, published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd. It is also the official journal of Chinese Society of Geriatrics.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Medicine-Geriatrics and Gerontology
Editor-in-chief Xuan ZhangPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 16 in mainland China (about 67%); most named Mainland China 16, United States 3, Hong Kong, China 2, United Kingdom 1, Japan 1 (24 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Frailty in Older AdultsMedicine15%
- Nutrition and Health in AgingMedicine12.4%
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment ResearchMedicine6.7%
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance5.2%
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering5.2%
- Educational Robotics and EngineeringComputer Science5.2%
- Chronic Disease Management StrategiesMedicine5.1%
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of LifeEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.1%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Geriatrics & Gerontology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Geriatrics & Gerontology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of SciencePMCEmbasePublisher website
Other: ProQuest
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 3.1Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.9LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 3.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 3.9Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.81LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.82LetPub ·
- h-index
- 33OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 145OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.17OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 3.2%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 52LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 2Publisher website ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 55Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 163,345Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 522 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 50 | 50 | 6 |
| 2025 | 71 | 71 | 130 |
| 2024 | 99 | 99 | 562 |
| 2023 | 51 | 51 | 417 |
| 2022 | 50 | 50 | 589 |
| 2021 | 47 | 47 | 626 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
192 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 157 days – 233 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 21 days (84 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 209 days
- Sample
- 84 articles with submission and acceptance dates (141 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 36%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 36%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 14 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 14 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 191 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 26 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 12 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | USD 2,200 / GBP 1,830 / EUR 2,110 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-ND | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,200 / EUR 2,110 / GBP 1,830 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 2,000 / GBP 1,540 / EUR 1,835 | Yes | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare5 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 500 words
- Keywords
- 3–5
- Reference style
- AMA
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Graphical abstract
- Required
Article types accepted11, with length limits
- case reportgo peer review prior to acceptance. (3) Case Reports Word limit: 1,000 words maximum including abstract but excluding references, tablesmain text ≤ 1,000 words
- case reports(3) Case Reports Word limit: 1,000 words maximum including abstract but excluding references, tables and figures. Abstract: 500 words maximum. References: 20 ma…main text ≤ 1,000 words · abstract ≤ 500 words
- commentaries [only by invitation of editors](6) Commentaries [only by invitation of Editors] Word limit: 1,500 words maximum excluding references. Title: 20 words maximum. Abstract: not required. Referenc…main text ≤ 1,500 words · references ≤ 20
- commentaryed paper for initial consideration. (6) Commentaries [only by invitation of Editors] Word limit: 1,500 words maximum excluding references. Title: 20 words maxim…main text ≤ 1,500 words
- editorials can track the line of discussion. (5) Editorials [only by invitation of Editors] Word Limit: 1,500 words maximum. Abstract: not required. References: 5 maximu…main text ≤ 1,500 words
- editorials [only by invitation of editors](5) Editorials [only by invitation of Editors] Word Limit: 1,500 words maximum. Abstract: not required. References: 5 maximum.main text ≤ 1,500 words · references ≤ 5
- letters to the editor(4) Letters to the Editor Word limit: 500 words maximum. Abstract: not required. References: 5 maximum. Figures/ tables: 1 maximum.main text ≤ 500 words
- original articleUSCRIPT CATEGORIES AND REQUIREMENTS (1) Original Articles Word limit: 3,000 words maximum including abstract but excluding references, tablesmain text ≤ 3,000 words
- original articles(1) Original Articles Word limit: 3,000 words maximum including abstract but excluding references, tables and figures. Abstract: 500 words maximum, with sub-hea…main text ≤ 3,000 words · abstract ≤ 500 words
- review articlen either basic or clinical science. (2) Review Articles Word limit: 4,000 words maximum including abstract but excluding references, tablesmain text ≤ 4,000 words
- review articles(2) Review Articles Word limit: 4,000 words maximum including abstract but excluding references, tables and figures. Abstract: 500 words maximum. References: no…main text ≤ 4,000 words · abstract ≤ 500 words
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Authorship
Please refer to the journal’s authorship policy the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section for details on eligibility for author listing.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflict of Interest Statement
You will be asked to provide a conflict of interest statement during the submission process. See the section ‘Conflict of Interest’ in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section for details on what to include in this section. Please ensure you liaise with all co-authors to confirm agreement with the final statement.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability
Encourages data sharing via public repositories, not mandatory. Model summary
Aging Medicine encourages data sharing wherever possible, unless this is prevented by ethical, privacy or confidentiality matters. Authors publishing in the journal are therefore encouraged to make their data, scripts and other artefacts used to generate the analyses presented in the paper available via a publicly available data repository, however this is not mandatory.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Publication Ethics
Member of COPE; uses iThenticate CrossCheck for plagiarism detection. Model summary
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Note this journal uses iThenticate’s CrossCheck software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. Read our Top 10 Publishing Ethics Tips for Authors here. Wiley’s Publication Ethics Guidelines can be found at https://authorservices.wiley.com/ethics-guidelines/index.html.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Understanding Open Access
As an open access journal, all articles in Aging Medicine are freely available to read, download and share immediately on publication.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Single-blind peer review for most article types; editorials and letters exempt. Model summary
Editorial and Letter to the Editor require no peer review, whereas all other article types are single-blind peer reviewed.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints
Accepts preprint-published articles; authors should link preprints to final version. Model summary
This journal accepts articles previously published on preprint servers. You are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical Trial Registration
We require that clinical trials are prospectively registered in a publicly accessible database and clinical trial registration numbers should be included in all papers that report their results. Please include the name of the trial register and your clinical trial registration number at the end of your abstract. If your trial is not registered, or was registered retrospectively, please explain the…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Country or region
- Australia
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2475-0360
- Society / sponsor
- Chinese Society of Geriatrics
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 9, Issue 4 (August 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Aging Medicine
What CAS zone is Aging Medicine in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Aging Medicine is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Geriatrics & Gerontology. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Aging Medicine?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 3.1 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 3.9, h-index 33.
How long does peer review take at Aging Medicine?
Based on the dates recorded on 84 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 192 days (interquartile range 157–233 days); authors report an average review time of about 12 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 36% (2025). Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Aging Medicine?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 500 words; Keywords: 3–5; Reference style: AMA; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Graphical abstract: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Aging Medicine based?
Of the 24 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 16 (about 67%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Mainland China (16), United States (3) and Hong Kong, China (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Aging Medicine?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Aging Medicine is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists Web of Science, PMC and Embase; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Aging Medicine open access, and what is the APC?
Aging Medicine is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,200.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .