About the journal
About the Journal of Aging Research and Healthcare
The Journal of Aging Research and Healthcare (JARH) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that advances geroscience, geriatrics, and aging-care-systems research — publishing rigorous work that improves the health, function, and quality of life of older adults by integrating biological, clinical, behavioural, and policy evidence.
What JARH is
An open-access journal for the whole aging continuum
JARH is built around one principle: outcomes for older adults improve when biology, clinical care, and health systems are studied together.
The journal unites the mechanisms of aging with geriatric practice, cognition, rehabilitation, mental health, caregiving, and the systems and policies that shape later life — favouring work with clear implications for practice, training, or policy. It publishes for a scholarly audience, but with a translational bias: research that can change how older adults are cared for.
As an open-access title, JARH makes that evidence freely available to the clinicians, caregivers, researchers, educators, and policymakers who act on it. Every article is registered with a permanent Crossref DOI and published under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licence, and the archive spans 5 volumes and 70 peer-reviewed articles since 2016.
Subject coverage
The disciplines JARH spans
Aging is multidisciplinary, and so is the journal. JARH welcomes rigorous work across the fields below and the connections between them.
What we publish: original research, reviews and mini-reviews, case reports, literature reviews, editorials, brief reports, and special issues.
Who it’s for
A community working on later life
JARH is written for the multidisciplinary community advancing aging science and care: geroscience and gerontology researchers; geriatricians and clinicians; gerontological-nursing and rehabilitation specialists; and public-health and health-services investigators. It also serves the educators, policymakers, and institutions who translate findings into training, services, and policy — always in service of older adults and the people who care for them.
Editorial & peer-review principles
Decisions made on merit, ethics, and scope
Every submission is assessed on scientific merit, research ethics, and fit with the journal’s scope, and is handled by a subject editor in the relevant field. Manuscripts undergo peer review — Single-blind (double-blind on request) — by two or more independent referees before an editorial decision.
Editorial independence. Editorial decisions rest solely with the journal’s editors. Article-processing charges — and any membership arrangement — never influence peer-review outcomes.
Led by Editor-in-Chief Xuefei Gao, Queensland University of Technology, Australia, with a 19-member international editorial board (16 with a registered ORCID). Meet the editorial board
Research integrity
Integrity, ethics & transparency
JARH follows established publishing-ethics standards. These commitments are documented in full on the journal’s editorial policies.
Single-blind (double-blind on request), by two or more independent referees before a decision.
Follows COPE and ICMJE guidance for editorial conduct, authorship, and misconduct.
Ethics approval and informed consent for human studies; welfare oversight for animal studies.
Every submission is screened for originality with iThenticate or an equivalent tool.
Authors, editors, and reviewers disclose interests and funding; charges never influence decisions.
Corrections, expressions of concern, and retractions are issued per COPE to protect the record.
A Data Availability Statement is required, with EQUATOR reporting checklists encouraged.
AI tools may assist with language but cannot be listed as authors; substantive use must be disclosed.
Dignity & inclusivity
Aging as accumulation, not decline
JARH publishes work that centres the health, function, dignity, and quality of life of older adults, and asks authors to describe aging populations with accurate, person-centred, non-stereotyping language. We welcome evidence that reduces disparities and supports healthy aging for everyone — and we resist framing later life solely in terms of illness, dependency, or burden.
Open access & your rights
Free to read, yours to keep
Every article is published fully open access under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licence, and authors retain copyright. There is no submission fee; a US$2,100 article-processing charge applies only after acceptance, with reduced fees and waivers considered on request. Each article receives a permanent Crossref DOI, and the journal participates in the Portico digital-preservation programme.
Publisher
Published by Open Access Pub
The Journal of Aging Research and Healthcare is an independent, peer-reviewed title published by Open Access Pub (Rancho Cordova, California). Open Access Pub provides the publishing platform, Crossref DOI registration, and long-term preservation infrastructure; responsibility for editorial decisions rests solely with the journal’s editors.
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