Journal profile
Thanatos
ISSN 2242-6280 · Finnish Death Studies Association · Finland
Thanatos: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 12 weeks (community reports); 11 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Thanatos is published by Finnish Death Studies Association. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning, Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues and Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health, together about 53.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Death, Funerary Practices, and MourningSocial Sciences35.9%
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life IssuesMedicine9%
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental HealthPsychology8.7%
- Memory, Trauma, and CommemorationPsychology8.5%
- Suicide and Self-Harm StudiesPsychology4.3%
- Palliative and Oncologic CareMedicine3.8%
- Philosophical and Cultural AnalysisArts and Humanities3.1%
- Death Anxiety and Social ExclusionPsychology2.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
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
- h-index
- 6OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 3OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.15OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 215 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 7 | 7 | 2 |
| 2025 | 11 | 11 | 6 |
| 2024 | 15 | 15 | 11 |
| 2023 | 5 | 5 | 14 |
| 2022 | 3 | 3 | 10 |
| 2021 | 6 | 6 | 13 |
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
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 12 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double 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
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-NC-ND | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
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
- Finnish Death Studies Association
- Country or region
- Finland
- Language
- English, Finnish, Swedish
- ISSN
- 2242-6280
- Official links
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Thanatos
How long does peer review take at Thanatos?
Authors report an average review time of about 12 weeks. 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.
Which databases index Thanatos?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Thanatos is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Thanatos open access, and what is the APC?
Thanatos is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, 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: .