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Announcement
BMC Series Focus Issue
August: Health Disparities
With World Humanitarian Day falling on 19th August, the BMC Series decided to focus on health disparities in August’s focus issue. Browse our biology, chemistry and medical titles for insight into health disparities, including racial health disparities, socioeconomic health disparities and regional disparities
Did you know you can publish the data from your article?
Auer et al. did just that when they published the data from their BMC Geriatrics article on DEMDATA in BMC Research Notes. You can find the data through the cross-link on their article, or discover it in PubMed, Scopus, SCImago and other indexing services.
Announcing the launch of In Review
BMC Geriatrics, in partnership with Research Square, is now offering In Review. Authors choosing this free optional service will be able to:
- Share their work with fellow researchers to read, comment on, and cite even before publication
- Showcase their work to funders and others with a citable DOI while it is still under review
- Track their manuscript - including seeing when reviewers are invited, and when reports are received
Articles
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Relocation experiences of the elderly to a long-term care facility in Taiwan: a qualitative study
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Sarcopenia is associated with hypertension in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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Nutrition assessment and geriatric associated conditions among community dwelling Iranian elderly people
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Stand When You Can: development and pilot testing of an intervention to reduce sedentary time in assisted living
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Early and late signs that precede dying among older persons in nursing homes: the multidisciplinary team’s perspective
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Pain in elderly people with severe dementia: A systematic review of behavioural pain assessment tools
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Is the Timed Up and Go test a useful predictor of risk of falls in community dwelling older adults: a systematic review and meta- analysis
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A best practice fall prevention exercise program to improve balance, strength / power, and psychosocial health in older adults: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
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Pain assessment for people with dementia: a systematic review of systematic reviews of pain assessment tools
Aims and scope
BMC Geriatrics is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of the health and healthcare of older people, including the effects of healthcare systems and policies. The journal also welcomes research focused on the aging process, including cellular, genetic, and physiological processes and cognitive modifications.
Editor
- Tovah Honor Aronin, BioMed Central, USA
Manuscript Editor
- Oliver Cocks, BioMed Central, UK
Section Editors
- Ian Cameron, University of Sydney, Australia
- Kee-Lee Chou, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong
- Danan Gu, United Nations, USA
- Koen Milisen, KU Leuven, Belgium
- John Tower, University of Southern California, USA
- Pieter Jelle Visser, Vrije Universiteit Medical Center, Netherlands
Danan Gu, Section Editor
Danan Gu earned a Ph.D. degree in demography in Peking University in 2001. He works at the United Nations Population Division since 2009. He is Section Editor of BMC Geriatrics since 2012.
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2019 Journal Metrics
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Citation Impact
3.077 - 2-year Impact Factor
3.822 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.755 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.367 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
Usage
1,612,092 Downloads
2,440 Altmetric mentions
