Geriatrics

Geriatrics is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal on geriatric medicine that MDPI publishes bimonthly from Basel, and its first issue appeared in 2016. The title carries clinical work, health services research and policy analysis on the health of older people, and its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 2.4 against a CiteScore of 3.4.《老年医学》是一份国际同行评审开放获取期刊，主题为老年医学，由 MDPI 在巴塞尔按双月刊在线出版，首期于 2016 年问世。刊物刊载有关老年群体健康的临床研究，卫生服务研究与政策分析，2025 年期刊影响因子为 2.4，CiteScore 为 3.4。

Scope

• The aims statement describes a journal for original articles, critical reviews, research notes and short communications on the health and health care of elderly people, including issues that touch health systems and policy.宗旨声明把该刊定位于老年群体健康与医疗照护领域，接收原创论文，评论性综述，研究简报与短通讯，医疗体系与政策议题同样在内。

• No maximum length is set for any manuscript, and the full experimental detail has to be supplied so that another group can reproduce the results, with calculation files and software allowed as supplementary material.各类稿件都不设篇幅上限，投稿须知要求给出完整的实验细节以便他人复现结果，计算文件与软件可以作为补充材料提交。

• Geriatric biology opens the ten listed areas, taking in molecular, cellular and physiological work on why organisms decline with age.老年生物学排在十条学科范围之首，覆盖生物体随年龄衰退的分子，细胞与生理机制研究。

• Geriatric health services research examines how care is organised, financed and delivered, from long-term care arrangements to the staffing of geriatric wards.老年卫生服务研究考察照护的组织，筹资与提供方式，从长期照护安排到老年病区的人员配置都属考察对象。

• Geriatric medicine research covers comprehensive assessment, multimorbidity, polypharmacy and frailty, together with the clinical management of patients who are old and often acutely ill.老年医学研究涵盖综合评估，多病共存，多重用药与衰弱，也关注高龄且常处急性期患者的临床管理。

• Neurology, stroke, cognition and oncology are grouped into a single area, which reflects how often neurodegenerative disease and cancer meet in the same elderly patient.老年神经病学，卒中，认知障碍与肿瘤被归入同一领域，反映神经退行性疾病与恶性肿瘤常在同一位高龄患者身上并存。

• Geriatric surgery takes in perioperative risk, anaesthesia, orthopaedic repair after fracture and the outcomes that follow an operation in the oldest patients.老年外科涉及围手术期风险，麻醉，骨折后的骨科修复，以及高龄患者手术之后的转归。

• Physical functioning, physical health and activity form another area, where sarcopenia, falls, mobility and exercise programmes for frail older adults are studied.身体功能，体健与活动构成另一片领域，肌少症，跌倒，行动能力与面向衰弱老人的运动方案都在此研究。

• Psychiatry and psychology deal with depression, delirium, the behavioural symptoms of dementia and the strain that caring for a dependent relative places on families.老年精神病学与心理学处理抑郁，谵妄，痴呆的行为症状，以及照护依赖亲属给家庭带来的压力。

• Nutrition is treated as a field of its own, spanning malnutrition screening, dietary intervention and the metabolic needs of patients who lose weight without an obvious cause.营养自成一个方向，涵盖营养不良筛查，膳食干预，以及无明显诱因体重下降患者的代谢需求。

• Geriatric epidemiology brings population evidence into the journal, through cohort studies, prevalence estimates and analyses of large administrative datasets on aging populations.老年流行病学把人群证据带进刊物，队列研究，患病率估计与大型行政数据的分析都围绕老龄人群展开。

• Rehabilitation closes the ten areas, covering recovery of function after stroke or hip fracture and the design of programmes that help an older person stay independent at home.老年康复收束这十个方向，覆盖卒中或髋部骨折后的功能恢复，也关注帮助老人在家中保持独立的方案设计。

• Book reviews are accepted as well, and the journal asks authors and publishers to send review copies to the editorial office in Basel, where received books are listed in the news section.书评同样在接收之列，刊物请作者与出版社把样书寄到巴塞尔编辑部，收到的图书会在新闻栏目中列出。

• Work on law and ethics sits inside the scope too, and the editors now file it with public health questions that shape how societies allocate care to an aging population.法律与伦理方面的研究同样在范围之内，编辑将其与公共卫生议题归为一类，这类议题决定社会如何向老龄人口分配照护资源。

History

• MDPI released the inaugural issue in 2016 and started the title as a quarterly journal, with volume one carrying that first year of papers.MDPI 于 2016 年推出创刊号，刊物以季刊起步，第 1 卷收录的就是当年论文。

• Volume numbering has run without a break since then, so volume eleven falls in 2026, the year the journal marks its tenth anniversary.此后卷号连续编排，第 11 卷落在 2026 年，刊物也在这一年迎来十周年。

• A wide set of subject sections appeared in 2017, among them Geriatric Neurology, Geriatric Psychiatry and Psychology, Geriatric Endocrinology and Metabolic Disorder, Cardiogeriatrics, Geriatric Nutrition and Geriatric Oncology.2017 年刊物集中设立学科栏目，其中包含老年神经病学，老年精神病学与心理学，老年内分泌与代谢紊乱，心血管老年医学，老年营养与老年肿瘤。

• The same wave brought Geriatric Rheumatology, Geriatric Pulmonology, Geriatric Ophthalmology and Geriatric Rehabilitation, plus Basic Science, Healthy Aging and a section then named Public Health: Law and Ethics.同一批还设了老年风湿病学，老年肺病学，老年眼科学与老年康复，另设基础科学，健康老龄化，以及原名「Public Health: Law and Ethics」的栏目。

• The journal entered the Emerging Sources Citation Index in 2018, with coverage beginning at volume two, issue one.2018 年该刊进入新兴来源引文索引，收录起点定在第 2 卷第 1 期。

• PubMed began indexing it in 2019, and Scopus followed with coverage backdated to volume one, issue one.PubMed 于 2019 年开始收录，Scopus 随后加入，并把范围回溯到第 1 卷第 1 期。

• A Dysphagia section was added in 2021, giving swallowing disorders in old age a dedicated place in the journal.2021 年增设吞咽障碍栏目，老年吞咽问题从此有了专门的位置。

• The publication rhythm changed in 2022, when the quarterly schedule gave way to six issues a year on a bimonthly cycle.2022 年出版节奏改变，季刊安排让位于每年 6 期的双月刊周期。

• Public Health: Law and Ethics was renamed Geriatric Public Health in 2023, and the journal received its first Journal Impact Factor that year at 2.3.2023 年该栏目更名为「Geriatric Public Health」，刊物同年获得首个期刊影响因子 2.3。

• Only an electronic ISSN is registered, 2308-3417, and every issue appears online with no print counterpart.刊物只登记了电子刊号 2308-3417，各期均在线出版，没有对应的印刷版。

• The five-year Journal Impact Factor sits at 2.7, and the 2025 Journal Citation Reports count 2,350 citations to the title.五年影响因子达到 2.7，2025 年期刊引证报告统计的总被引为 2350 次。

• In the 2025 Journal Citation Reports it holds the third quartile of GERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY, ranked 50 of 72 titles in that category.在 2025 年的期刊引证报告中，该刊位于老年医学与老年学类别的第三四分位，在 72 种期刊中排第 50 位。

• The publisher reports a median of 28 days from submission to a first decision and four days from acceptance to publication.出版方公布的中位时间为投稿到首次决定 28 天，录用到发表 4 天。

• Some 1,212 articles have appeared since 2016, all of them open access under a CC BY licence that leaves copyright with the authors.自 2016 年以来累计发表 1212 篇文章，全部以 CC BY 许可开放获取，版权留在作者手中。

Editors

• Ralf Lobmann holds the editor-in-chief post, working at the Department of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Geriatrics in the Clinical Centre Stuttgart - Katharinenhospital in Germany.（Ralf Lobmann）担任主编，任职于德国斯图加特（Clinical Centre Stuttgart - Katharinenhospital）的内分泌，糖尿病与老年医学科。

• His research runs across diabetes in old age, geriatric endocrine disease, wound healing, frailty, sarcopenia, multimorbidity, telemedicine and public health.其研究横跨老年糖尿病，老年内分泌疾病，创面愈合，衰弱与肌少症，也涉及多病共存，远程医疗，数字技术与公共卫生。

• Lobmann has led the journal since its foundation in 2016, and five section editors now work under him.他自 2016 年创刊起主持该刊，目前有 5 位栏目主编在其下工作。

• Daniel Chan of the University of New South Wales in Australia took charge of Geriatric Rehabilitation in 2025.澳大利亚新南威尔士大学的（Daniel Chan）自 2025 年起负责老年康复栏目。

• Manuel Montero-Odasso at Western University in Canada has edited Geriatric Neurology since 2018, and his work centres on gait, mild cognitive impairment, frailty and falls.加拿大西安大略大学的（Manuel Montero-Odasso）自 2018 年起主编老年神经病学栏目，研究集中在步态，轻度认知障碍，衰弱与跌倒。

• Phyo Kyaw Myint of the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom looks after Geriatric Nutrition, a post he has held since 2018.英国阿伯丁大学的（Phyo Kyaw Myint）负责老年营养栏目，任此职始于 2018 年。

• Patricia Schofield at the University of Plymouth, also in the United Kingdom, has led Healthy Aging since 2018 and works on pain and dementia.同样在英国普利茅斯大学的（Patricia Schofield）自 2018 年起主持健康老龄化栏目，研究疼痛与痴呆。

• David G. Smithard divides his time between Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust and the University of Greenwich, and he has edited Dysphagia since 2021, with frailty, care homes and stroke among his interests.（David G. Smithard）同时在（Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust）与格林尼治大学任职，自 2021 年起负责吞咽障碍栏目，关注衰弱，养老机构与卒中。

• Alessandro Morandi edited Geriatric Rehabilitation from 2018 to 2022 and now carries the title of honorary former section editor.（Alessandro Morandi）在 2018 年至 2022 年间担任老年康复栏目主编，现为荣誉前任栏目主编。

• Below the section heads, the board draws on basic scientists and clinicians, among them Craig S. Atwood.栏目主编之外，编委会还包括基础研究与临床研究者，例如（Craig S. Atwood）。

• Every manuscript that reaches external review collects at least two referee reports, and reviewers are ordinarily given seven to ten days to return them.进入外审的稿件至少收到两份审稿报告，审稿人通常在 7 至 10 天内交回。

• Review is single anonymized for most journals in the publisher's list, so referees know who wrote a paper while authors do not learn who reviewed it.出版方旗下多数期刊采用单盲评审，审稿人知道作者身份，作者则不知评审者是谁。

• Authors may also choose open peer review, in which the reports and the replies to them are published alongside the article.作者还可以选择开放同行评审，评审报告与答复会随文章一同发表。

• Submissions pass iThenticate for overlap checks and Proofig for image integrity before an academic editor sees them, and an editor with a conflict of interest stays out of the decision, as does any discussion of the article processing charge.稿件先经 iThenticate 查重，再用 Proofig 检查图像完整性，之后才送到学术编辑手中，与稿件有利益冲突的编辑不参与决定，文章处理费的信息也不向作决定的编辑披露。

• Manuscripts go through the online system at susy.mdpi.com, the editorial office answers at geriatrics@mdpi.com, and the title sits in the publisher's Journal Cluster of Healthcare Sciences and Services.投稿经（susy.mdpi.com）的在线系统完成，编辑部邮箱为（geriatrics@mdpi.com），刊物归入出版方的「Journal Cluster of Healthcare Sciences and Services」，同簇还有「Journal of Ageing and Longevity」，「Healthcare」与「Nursing Reports」。