Journal profile · Multiple
Death Studies
ISSN 0748-1187 · eISSN 1091-7683 · Taylor & Francis
Death Studies: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.07; hybrid open access; 222 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Death Studies is published by Taylor & Francis 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 Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health, Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues and Migration, Health and Trauma, together about 49.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Clinical Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Taylor & Francis publishes knowledge and specialty research spanning humanities, social sciences, science and technology, engineering, medicine and healthcare.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental HealthPsychology29%
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life IssuesMedicine10.4%
- Migration, Health and TraumaPsychology10.4%
- Suicide and Self-Harm StudiesPsychology6.9%
- Death Anxiety and Social ExclusionPsychology6.9%
- Religion, Spirituality, and PsychologySocial Sciences4.4%
- Homelessness and Social IssuesHealth Professions3.8%
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering2.5%
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 | Psychology, Multidisciplinary | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Social Issues | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Social Sciences, Biomedical | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Psychology, Multidisciplinary | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Social Issues | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Social Sciences, Biomedical | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Psychology, Multidisciplinary | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Social Issues | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Social Sciences, Biomedical | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
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
- 2.07LetPub ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 8.1LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.91LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.74LetPub ·
- h-index
- 111OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,540OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.77OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 14.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 16.73%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 206LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 3,551 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 165 | 66 | 27 |
| 2025 | 222 | 86 | 336 |
| 2024 | 208 | 95 | 689 |
| 2023 | 105 | 43 | 780 |
| 2022 | 106 | 27 | 898 |
| 2021 | 121 | 36 | 2,146 |
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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- ISSN
- 0748-1187
- Electronic ISSN
- 1091-7683
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Death Studies
What CAS zone is Death Studies in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Death Studies is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Psychology, Multidisciplinary / Social Issues / Social Sciences, Biomedical. 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 Death Studies?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.07; CiteScore 8.1, h-index 111.
Which databases index Death Studies?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Death Studies is indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Is Death Studies open access, and what is the APC?
Death Studies is a hybrid journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .