Aims & Scope | JGG

Aims

The Journal of Gerontology and Geriatrics (JGG) (ISSN 2499-6564) is an international, open access journal on aging. JGG publishes reviews, regular research papers (articles) and short communications. Our aim is to provide a forum for original research papers, reviews, clinical case reports, and commentaries on the most relevant areas pertaining to aging.

Scope

The research areas covered by the journal include but are not limited to:

Physiology and Pathology of Aging;
Biogerontology;
Epidemiology;
Clinical Geriatrics;
Pharmacology;
Ethics;
Psychology;
Sociology;
Geriatric Nursing.

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications.

Book Reviews

Authors and publishers are encouraged to send review copies of their recent related books to the following address. Received books will be listed as Books Received within the journal's News & Announcements section.

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in JGG will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text:

© 2026 by the authors. Published by MDPI on behalf of the Italian Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Reprints

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Announcement and Advertisement

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