Journal profile · Geriatrics & Gerontology
ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GERONTOLOGIE UND GERIATRIE
ISSN 0948-6704 · eISSN 1435-1269 · Springer Medizin · GERMANY · Bimonthly · Founded 1998
ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GERONTOLOGIE UND GERIATRIE: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.97; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,390; median 71 days to acceptance (60 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 139 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GERONTOLOGIE UND GERIATRIE is published by Springer Medizin 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 Social and Demographic Issues in Germany, Health and Medical Studies and Medical Practices and Rehabilitation, together about 42.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are General Health Professions. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Der Tatsache, dass immer mehr Menschen immer älter werden und das unsere Gesellschaft entscheidend mitprägt, trägt die Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie schon seit vielen Jahren Rechnung, indem sie mit ihrem breiten Themenspektrum den interessierten Leser über zentrale Entwicklungen in den Alternswissenschaften informiert. Ergebnisse der gerontologischen und geriatrischen Forschung sowie daraus abgeleitete Interventionen, Behandlungsansätze und konzeptionelle Entwicklungen werden in Originalbeiträgen publiziert. Themenbezogene Hefte behandeln ausführlich und interdisziplinär relevante Fragen der Gerontologie in all ihren Facetten: biologischen, geriatrischen, psychologischen, soziologischen, pädagogischen, sozialarbeiterischen und pflegerischen. Zielgruppen: Geriater*innen, Gerontolog*innen, Alterssoziolog*innen, Gerontopsycholog*innen, Gerontopsychiater*innen, Biogerontolog*innen, Sozialarbeiter*innen und -pädagog*innen, Pflegekräfte und Pflegewissenschaftler*innen, Beschäftigte in geriatrischen Abteilungen/Kliniken, gerontologischen Instituten, Einrichtungen und Institutionen in gerontologischen Handlungsfeldern sowie in der Lehre und Weiter- bzw. Fortbildung Tätige. The fact that more and more people are becoming older and are having a significant influence on our society is due to intensive geriatric research and geriatric medicine in the past and present. The Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie has contributed to this area for many years by informing a broad spectrum of interested readers about various developments in gerontology research. Special issues focus on all questions concerning gerontology, biology and basic research of aging, geriatric research, psychology and sociology as well as practical aspects of geriatric care. Target group: Geriatricians, social gerontologists, geriatric psychologists, geriatric psychiatrists, nurses/caregivers, nurse researchers, biogerontologists in geriatric wards/clinics, gerontological institutes, and institutions of teaching and further or continuing education.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Geriatrics & Gerontology
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Germany 69, Austria 15, Switzerland 5, United Kingdom 1 (90 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Social and Demographic Issues in GermanyHealth Professions18.7%
- Health and Medical StudiesHealth Professions15%
- Medical Practices and RehabilitationHealth Professions8.7%
- Social Policies and Healthcare ReformHealth Professions5.8%
- Frailty in Older AdultsMedicine5%
- Medical and Health Sciences ResearchMedicine4.3%
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment ResearchMedicine4.1%
- Psychiatric care and mental health servicesPsychology3.8%
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 |
| Minor | Gerontology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Geriatrics & Gerontology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Gerontology | Zone 4 |
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 | Geriatrics & Gerontology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Geriatrics & Gerontology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIESSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
MEDLINEPsycINFOCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: Google Scholar, EBSCO, ProQuest, Dimensions, CNKI, Baidu, Naver, OCLC, Portico, CLOCKSS, Semantic Scholar
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
- 0.97LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.1Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.9LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.3LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.55LetPub ·
- h-index
- 35LetPub ·
- h-index
- 60OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 795OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.71OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 27.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 41.28%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 86LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 617,600Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 3,530 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 125 | 46 | 9 |
| 2025 | 139 | 52 | 98 |
| 2024 | 120 | 49 | 166 |
| 2023 | 115 | 48 | 247 |
| 2022 | 138 | 64 | 483 |
| 2021 | 171 | 101 | 932 |
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
71 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 50 days – 130 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 29 days (80 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 107 days
- Sample
- 60 articles with submission and acceptance dates (289 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)
- 6–12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 12 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,390 / EUR 2,790 / GBP 2,390 | — | — |
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.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteData availability, Open access
- Data availability Data availability statements
All original research must include a data availability statement. This statement should explain how to access data supporting the results and analysis in the article, including links/citations to publicly archived datasets analysed or generated during the study. Please see our full policy here. If it is not possible to share research data publicly, for instance when individual privacy could be com…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access publishing
To find out more about publishing your work Open Access in Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie, including information on fees, funding and licences, visit our Open access publishing page. Back to top
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
- Springer Medizin
- Country or region
- GERMANY
- Language
- German
- Frequency
- Bimonthly
- Founded
- 1998
- ISSN
- 0948-6704
- Electronic ISSN
- 1435-1269
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 59, Issue 2 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GERONTOLOGIE UND GERIATRIE
What CAS zone is ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GERONTOLOGIE UND GERIATRIE in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GERONTOLOGIE UND GERIATRIE is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Geriatrics & Gerontology / Gerontology. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GERONTOLOGIE UND GERIATRIE?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 0.97; CiteScore 1.9, h-index 60.
How long does peer review take at ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GERONTOLOGIE UND GERIATRIE?
Based on the dates recorded on 60 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 71 days (interquartile range 50–130 days); authors report an average review time of 6–12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”. 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.
Where are the editorial board members of ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GERONTOLOGIE UND GERIATRIE based?
Of the 90 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Germany (69), Austria (15) and Switzerland (5). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GERONTOLOGIE UND GERIATRIE?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GERONTOLOGIE UND GERIATRIE is indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists MEDLINE, PsycINFO and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GERONTOLOGIE UND GERIATRIE open access, and what is the APC?
ZEITSCHRIFT FUR GERONTOLOGIE UND GERIATRIE is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,390.
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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .