Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research is the journal of the European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases, published by Springer, and since its founding in 1989 it has offered a multidisciplinary forum on gerontology and geriatrics to university and hospital researchers, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 4.7《衰老临床与实验研究》（Aging Clinical and Experimental Research）是欧洲骨质疏松、骨关节炎和肌肉骨骼疾病临床与经济学学会的期刊，由（Springer）出版，1989 年创刊，为老年学与老年医学提供多学科论坛，面向高校与医院研究者，2025 年影响因子为 4.7

Scope

• The journal offers a multidisciplinary forum on the progressing field of gerontology and geriatrics, with a strong standing in musculoskeletal disease research该刊为持续发展的老年学与老年医学提供多学科论坛，在肌肉骨骼疾病研究中地位稳固。
• Biogerontology is covered, addressing the mechanisms that make organisms age生物老年学在收录之列，探讨使机体衰老的机制。
• Neurosciences form a further pillar, in view of the links between ageing and the nervous system神经科学是另一支柱，着眼于衰老与神经系统之间的关联。
• Epidemiology is treated as a core method, and clinical gerontology and geriatric assessment are covered alongside it流行病学被视为核心方法，临床老年学与老年评估则与之并行展开。
• Social, economical and behavioural gerontology is also in scope, keeping the journal connected to the economic and social side of ageing社会、经济与行为老年学亦在收稿范围，使该刊与衰老问题的经济和社会面向保持连接。
• The journal publishes review and research articles, brief reports, perspectives and correspondence, position statements and guidelines, and it also produces special and guest edited issues and collections该刊发表综述与研究论文、简报、观点与通信、立场文件与指南，并组织专刊与客座主编专题。
• Contributions are expected to be of interest to a readership that spans basic gerontology, clinical practice and public health稿件以兼顾基础老年学、临床实践与公共卫生的读者群为念。

History

• The journal was founded in 1989 by Gaetano Crepaldi of the University of Padua, together with Edward Masoro and Luigi Amaducci, and its masthead still lists Crepaldi as founding editor该刊 1989 年由帕多瓦大学的（Gaetano Crepaldi）联同（Edward Masoro）与（Luigi Amaducci）创办，刊头至今仍将其列为创刊主编。
• Stefania Maggi of the National Research Council in Rome and the University of Padua served as a long-standing Editor-in-Chief and is now named as emeritus editor after retiring in 2024罗马国家研究委员会与帕多瓦大学的（Stefania Maggi）曾长期担任主编，2024 年退休后现列为荣誉主编。
• It was published by Editrice Kurtis until 2013, when it moved to Springer, and it became the official journal of the European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases in 2019该刊此前由（Editrice Kurtis）出版，2013 年转入（Springer），并于 2019 年成为欧洲骨质疏松、骨关节炎和肌肉骨骼疾病临床与经济学学会的官方期刊。
• Its schedule changed with its content, moving from the monthly issues of the 2023 volume to continuous article publishing from volume 36 in 2024, so one volume with one issue now covers each year刊期随内容而变，从 2023 年卷的月刊制转为自 2024 年第 36 卷起的连续文章出版，如今每年一卷一期。
• It flipped to fully open access on 1 January 2024, and every article published since then is freely and permanently accessible online on publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers, while supplements are still issued each year该刊自 2024 年 1 月 1 日起转为完全开放获取，此后所有文章发表即可免费永久在线获取，不设订阅费用与注册门槛，同时每年仍出版增刊。
• Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 4.7 after 3.4 in 2024, the five-year figure is 4.2, the median time to a first decision is 7 days, and downloads reached 2 million in 2025该刊 2025 年影响因子为 4.7，2024 年为 3.4，五年影响因子 4.2，从投稿到首次决定的中位时间为 7 天，2025 年下载量达 200 万次。

Editors

• The current Editor-in-Chief is Nicola Veronese, affiliated with the Saint Camillus International University of Health and Medical Sciences in Rome and with the primary care department of the local health authority in Venice现任主编为（Nicola Veronese），任职于罗马（圣卡米卢斯国际健康与医学大学）及威尼斯地方卫生局基层医疗部门。
• Jean-Yves Reginster of King Saud University in Riyadh serves as Deputy Editor, and Fiona Ecarnot of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besançon serves as Managing Editor利雅得（沙特国王大学）的（Jean-Yves Reginster）任副主编，（第戎大学医院中心）的（Fiona Ecarnot）任执行编辑。
• The Associate Editors are grouped by topic, with entries for biomarkers in diseases, cardiology, comprehensive geriatric assessment, diabetes, epidemiology, frailty, genetics, infectious and respiratory diseases, kidney diseases, meta-analysis and systematic reviews and musculoskeletal disorders and osteoporosis副编辑按主题分组，涵盖疾病生物标志物、心血管学、综合老年评估、糖尿病、流行病学、衰弱、遗传学、传染与呼吸疾病、肾脏疾病、荟萃分析与系统综述，以及肌肉骨骼疾病与骨质疏松。
• Among them are Etienne Cavalier and Olivier Bruyere of the University of Liège, Tomasz Grodzicki of the Jagiellonian University, Lixing Zhou of West China Hospital and Charlotte Beaudart of the Namur Research Institute for Life Sciences其中包括列日大学的（Etienne Cavalier）与（Olivier Bruyere）、雅盖隆大学的（Tomasz Grodzicki）、四川大学华西医院的（Lixing Zhou）以及纳穆尔生命科学研究所的（Charlotte Beaudart）。
• Manuscripts are handled through the SNAPP submission system under a single-blind reviewing procedure, and they are screened first by the editorial office for conformity with the instructions, ethical faults and duplicated publication稿件经（SNAPP）投稿系统按单盲评审流程处理，先由编辑部核查是否符合投稿须知、是否存在伦理问题与重复发表。
• They are then passed to the Managing Editor, who judges suitability for peer review together with the Editor-in-Chief, and guest edited issues follow the same procedure, except that a guest editor who writes in their own issue does not handle its review其后交由执行编辑与主编共同判断是否送外审，客座主编专题沿用同一流程，但客座主编若在自己的专题中撰写文章，则不负责该文的评审。