title: Age and Ageing
text: # Age and Ageing
  
  Age and Ageing is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering all aspects of geriatric medicine and gerontology. It was established in 1972 and is published by Oxford University Press. It is the official journal of the British Geriatrics Society and the editor-in-chief is Rowan Harwood (University of Nottingham).
  
  ## Abstracting and indexing
  
  The journal is abstracted and indexed in CINAHL, EMBASE, Science Citation Index, Scopus, and MEDLINE/PubMed. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 10.668.
  
  ## Editors-in-chief
  
  The following persons have been editor-in-chief of the journal:
  
  * A. N. Exton-Smith and H. M. Hodkinson (1972–1985)
  * H. M. Hodkinson (1986–1987)
  * J. Grimley Evans (1988–1995)
  * G. P. Mulley (1996–2001)
  * G. K. Wilcock (2002–2007)
  * R. M. Francis (2007–2014)
  * David J. Stott (2014-2019
  * Rowan Harwood (2019–present)
  