Rejuvenation Research
Rejuvenation Research | |
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Former names | Journal of Anti-Aging Medicine |
Discipline | Rejuvenation |
Language | English |
Edited by | Aubrey de Grey |
Publication details | |
Publisher | |
Publication history | 1998–present |
Frequency | Bimonthly |
3.931 | |
Indexing | |
ISSN |
1549-1684 (print) 1557-8577 (web) |
LCCN | 2004214717 |
OCLC no. | 54674277 |
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Rejuvenation Research is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Mary Ann Liebert that covers research on rejuvenation and biogerontology. The journal was established in 1998 and the editor-in-chief is Aubrey de Grey. It is the official journal of the European Society of Preventive, Regenerative and Anti-Aging Medicine as well as PYRAMED: World Federation and World Institute of Preventive & Regenerative Medicine.
History
The journal was established in 1998 as the Journal of Anti-Aging Medicine with Michael Fossel (Michigan State University) as editor-in-chief. It obtained its current title in 2004, when Aubrey de Grey took over as editor-in-chief.
Appreciations of the journal have been divergent. In 2005, the journal was referred to as a "heroic effort to jump-start research on postponing or slowing human aging" (by editorial board member Michael R. Rose),[1] and also as being "somewhat fringy".[2]
SENS conferences
The journal publishes the abstracts of the biennial conferences of the SENS Research Foundation.
Abstracting and indexing
Rejuvenation Research is abstracted and indexed in:
- MEDLINE
- Current Contents/Clinical Medicine
- Science Citation Index Expanded
- EMBASE/Excerpta Medica
- Scopus
- CAB Abstracts
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2013 impact factor of 3.931 .[3]
See also
References
- ↑ Michael Robertson Rose (2005). The long tomorrow: how advances in evolutionary biology can help us postpone aging. Page 148. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-517939-0.
- ↑ Joseph Hooper (2005) The prophet of immortality. Popular Science 266(1): 72.
- ↑ "Rejuvenation Research". 2013 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2014.