By Lisa Watts
The journal’s impact factor rose five points from 2020 to 2021. Edward Alan Miller, a fellow at the LeadingAge LTSS Center @ UMass Boston, is editor-in-chief.
The Journal of Aging & Social Policy (JASP), based at the University of Massachusetts Boston, saw a jump in its impact factor to 7.1 in 2021 from 2.3 in 2020. The impact factor is a measure of how often a journal’s contents are cited in other works.
Edward Alan Miller, a fellow at the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston, is editor-in-chief of JASP. Miller, who serves on the LTSS Center’s steering committee, is a professor and chair of gerontology at UMass Boston.
According to Journal Citation Reports, JASP now ranks 4th among 37 journals in the gerontology category. Separately, SCImago—which measures the scientific influence of scholarly journals both by the number of citations and by the prestige of the journals that include the citations—ranks JASP second among all gerontology journals.
Journal submissions to JASP from contributors around the globe also have grown dramatically.
Miller says the increase in citations and submissions seem to be driven, in part, by two COVID-19 special issues and, more generally, by the journal’s reputation for publishing high-quality research and timely commentaries with strong policy impact.
To learn more about JASP’s impact factor rankings, visit the Gerontology Institute Blog.
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