BMC Geriatrics
Last updated ISSN 1471-2318
BMC Geriatrics is published by BioMed Central in medicine. It is open access. The article processing charge is $3,190.
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What it publishes
Recent work in BMC Geriatrics concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Frailty in Older Adults
- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Nutrition and Health in Aging
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Aging and Gerontology Research
- Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
Key facts
| Publisher | BioMed Central |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1471-2318 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $3,190 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 9,291 |
| Publishing since | 1971 |
| Journal website | link.springer.com/journal/12877 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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