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*The Journals of Gerontology*
Discipline	Geriatrics, gerontology
Language	English
Edited by	Rafael de Cabo (Biological Sciences); Stephen Kritchevsky (Medical Sciences); Bob Knight (Psychological Sciences); Merril Silverstein (Social Sciences)
Publication details
Former name(s)	The Journal of Gerontology
History	1946-present
Publisher	Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America (United States)
Frequency	Monthly (Series A), Bimonthly (Series B)
Impact factor	Series A: 4.598 Series B: 2.615 (2011)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	J. Gerontol.
Indexing;
	Series A
ISSN	1079-5006 (print); 1758-535X (web);
	Series B
ISSN	1079-5014 (print); 1758-5368 (web);
Links
	The Journals of Gerontology, Series A; The Journals of Gerontology, Series B; The Journal of Gerontology & the Journals of Gerontology (1946–1994);

The Journals of Gerontology are the first scientific journals on aging published in the United States.^[1] The publication is separated into four separate peer-reviewed scientific journals, each with its own editor, and published in two series. The Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences and the Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences are housed within The Journals of Gerontology, Series A;^[2] the Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences and the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences are housed within The Journals of Gerontology, Series B.^[3] The journals are published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America.

History

The journals were founded under the title Journal of Gerontology in 1946. In 1961, material dealing with social policy, program development, and service delivery was split into a new journal, The Gerontologist. In 1988 Journal of Gerontology was renamed Journals of Gerontology to reflect the fact that it represented a composite of four journals with four separate editors, and in 1995 it was split into two separate publications: the Journals of Gerontology: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences and the Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences.^[4]

Series A

Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences

Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences publishes articles relating to the biology of aging. Topics include biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, genetics, neuroscience, comparative and evolutionary biology, biodemography, and biological underpinnings of late life diseases.^[2]