Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Overview

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research is a multidisciplinary journal focusing on the advancing fields of gerontology and geriatrics.

Official Journal of the European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases (ESCEO).
Fully open access (OA) as of 1 January 2024. All articles published after January 2024 are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers.
Covers a range of topics including biogerontology, neurosciences, epidemiology, clinical gerontology and geriatric assessment, social, economical and behavioral gerontology.
Publishes article collections on cutting-edge themes in the field of geriatrics.

Editor-in-Chief

Nicola Veronese

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Journal metrics

Journal Impact Factor: 3.4 (2023)

5-year Journal Impact Factor: 3.5 (2023)

Submission to first decision (median): 4 days

Downloads: 1.3M (2024)

Calls for papers

Collection

Diabetes in older adults

The impact of diabetes on healthcare in older adults is a continuously growing challenge worldwide due to the increasing number of persons reaching...

Collection

Low Back Pain in Older Adults: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding, Management, and Prevention, with the collaboration of ESCEO

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research (ACER) is dedicated to advancing knowledge on aging-related health challenges.

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Latest articles

Quality of plant-based diets in relation to all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality in US adults with sarcopenia: a population-based study
Shaoyang Liu
Lei Zhang
Qingge Fu
Research Open access 01 June 2025 Article: 176
The impact of population aging on tuberculosis prevention and control in Shanghai: a prediction based on age-period-cohort models
Rong Du
Lixin Rao
Biao Xu
Research Open access 28 May 2025 Article: 175
Predicting working memory efficiency across adulthood: the role of enhancement and suppression attentional mechanisms, moderated by age and other factors
Elissa López-González
Ulises Caballero-Sánchez
Alejandra E. Ruiz-Contreras
Research Open access 28 May 2025 Article: 174
Associations between social vulnerability and functioning in older age, and the moderating role of optimism and self-efficacy
Anna-Maria Lahti
Tuija Mikkola
Mikaela von Bonsdorff
Research Open access 28 May 2025 Article: 173
A head-to-head comparison of the validity and predictive ability for health outcomes of diagnosis versus medication-based comorbidity indices
Moritz Platen
Maresa Buchholz
Bernhard Michalowsky
Research Open access 27 May 2025 Article: 172

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Journal updates

Let's celebrate our #HighlyCited2024 Editorial Board Members!

👏Congrats to Hidenori Arai, Olivier Bruyere, Cyrus Cooper, Luigi Ferrucci, Mirko Petrovic, Jean-Yves Reginster and Nicola Veronese!
Aging clinical and experimental research is now fully open access!

We are excited to announce that Aging Clinical and Experimental Research has now become a fully open access (OA) journal as of January 2024. This means that we will only be publishing articles as Open Access meaning content will be and freely available to readers worldwide, enabling the widest possible dissemination and reuse.
ACER is on X (formerly Twitter) - a special note to authors!

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Journal information

Electronic ISSN: 1720-8319
Abstracted and indexed in: BFI List

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