Thanatos
Last updated ISSN 2242-6280
Thanatos is an academic journal in social sciences. It is open access. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Thanatos concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Palliative and Oncologic Care
- Philosophical and Cultural Analysis
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Ethics and bioethics in healthcare
- Autopsy Techniques and Outcomes
Key facts
| Publisher | Not recorded |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2242-6280 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | DOAJ |
| Articles published | 215 |
| Citations per paper (2 yr) | 0.2 average, from OpenAlex — not the Journal Impact Factor |
| Publishing since | 2012 |
| Journal website | journal.fi/thanatos |
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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