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Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine

Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine

Published in Association with Southern Gerontological Society

eISSN: 23337214 | ISSN: 23337214 | Current volume: 9 | Current issue: 1 Frequency: Yearly

Journal Highlights


Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine (GGM) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open access journal focusing on the psychological, behavioral, social, and biological aspects of aging. The journal addresses a wide variety of topics in gerontology and geriatrics, including health economics, health services research, health outcomes, public health, medicine, biology, equity, social science, epidemiology, demography, and nursing. GGM reflects the global importance and interest in this subject area and its particular relevance to countries that are experiencing an exponential growth in older population.

Please see the Aims and Scope for further information.

This journal is published in affiliation with the Southern Gerontological Society.

The Southern Medical Association provides Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits for the Teaching Case Studies series, "Managing Aberrant Behavior In Patients With Dementia".

This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).


Submission information

Submit your manuscript today at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ggm.

Please see the Submission Guidelines for more information on how to submit your article to the journal.


Open access article processing charge (APC) information

Publication in the journal is subject to payment of an article processing charge (APC). The APC serves to support the journal and ensures that articles are freely accessible online in perpetuity under a Creative Commons license.

The Article Processing Charge for this Journal is $2000 USD. The APC for Case Reports and Brief Reports is currently $750 USD. There is no APC for Letters to the Editor.

Members of the Southern Gerontological Society receive a 25% discount on the APC for original research articles.

The article processing charge (APC) is payable when a manuscript is accepted after peer review, before it is published. The APC is subject to taxes where applicable. Please see further details here.
 

Contact

Please direct any queries to lorianne.sarsfield@sagepub.com.

 

Why Publish Open Access in GGM

  • Visibility and Impact: Anyone anywhere in the world can read, use and cite your research
  • Rigorous Standards: Double-blind peer review policy
  • Flexibility: No page limits or page charges, and authors can publish full data sets, figures, tables, etc
  • Copyright: Authors retain copyright under a Creative Commons License

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Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine (GGM) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open access journal focusing on the psychological, behavioral, social, and biological aspects of aging. The journal addresses a wide variety of topics in gerontology and geriatrics, including health economics, health services research, health outcomes, public health, medicine, biology, equity, social science, epidemiology, demography, and nursing. GGM reflects the global importance and interest in this subject area and its particular relevance to countries that are experiencing an exponential growth in older population.

GGM seeks to be one of the world’s premier Open Access outlets for gerontological academic research. As such, GGM does not limit content due to page budgets or thematic significance. Papers will be subjected to rigorous peer review but will be selected solely on the basis of whether the research is sound and deserves publication. By virtue of not restricting papers to a narrow discipline, GGM facilitates the discovery of the connections between papers. The journal emphasizes novelty and new directions and encourages contributions with diverse theoretical and methodological approaches.

Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine is affiliated with the Southern Gerontological Society.

The Southern Medical Association provides Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits for the Teaching Case Studies series, "Managing Aberrant Behavior In Patients With Dementia".

Article Types
Original Research Articles, Review Articles, Literature Reviews, Case Reports, Brief Reports, Letters to the Editor

Open Access
Open access is an interesting alternative model to the subscription model of journal publication. In the traditional subscription system, full access to the journal is granted either via annual subscriptions or in the form of fee per article. On the other hand, open access does not require a fee for accessing the content of each article, and thus is available freely.

Authors who should submit to Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine include:

  • Require their articles to be published immediately on an Open Access basis (eg due to university, government or funder mandates)
  • Require their articles to benefit from rapid peer review and efficient production, ensuring rapid publication time
  • Want their articles to receive free, broad, and global distribution on a powerful, highly discoverable publishing platform
  • Want their articles published by a world-leading independent publisher

Manuscript Submission

Please direct any inquiries to lorianne.sarsfield@sagepub.com.

Co-Editors
Dr. Tamatha E. Arms, PhD, DNP, PMHNP-BC, NP-C University of North Carolina Wilmington, NC, USA
Ronald C. Hamdy, MD East Tennessee State University, USA
Editor Emeritus
Debra Dobbs, PhD University of South Florida, USA
Tamara A. Baker, PhD University of Kansas, USA
Ravishankar Jayadevappa, PhD University of Pennsylvania, USA
Editorial Board
Aza Abdulla, MD King’s College, University of London, UK
Tamara A. Baker, PhD University of Kansas, USA
Lisa L. Barnes, PhD Rush University Medical Center, USA
Kallol Kumar Bhattacharyya, MBBS, MA, PhD Utah State University, USA
Hillary Bogner, MD University of Pennsylvania, USA
Dana Burr Bradley, PhD, FGSA, FAGHE University of Maryland-Baltimore County, USA
Glenna S. Brewster, PhD, RN, FNP-BC Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, USA
Pamela Pitman Brown, PhD, CPG Albany State University, USA
John J. Carey, MD Galway University Hospitals, Ireland
Omar Cauli, PhD University of Valencia, Spain
Sumedha Chhatre, PhD University of Pennsylvania, USA
Joseph Gallo, MD, MPH Johns Hopkins University, USA
Panteleimon Giannakopoulos Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Switzerland
Thomas Guzzo, MD, MPH University of Pennsylvania, USA
Neveen Hamdy, MD Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
Jerry C. Johnson, MD University of Pennsylvania, USA
Andree Kurniawan, Sp.PD. Universitas Pelita Harapan, Indonesia
David Lee, MD University of Pennsylvania, USA
S. Bruce Malkowicz, MD University of Pennsylvania, USA
Mary Helen McSweeney-Feld, PhD, LNHA Towson University, USA
Knashawn Morales, PhD University of Pennsylvania, USA
Ronica Rooks, PhD University of Colorado, Denver, USA
Philip A. Rozario, PhD Adelphi University
Dong-Mi Shin, PhD Seoul National University, Korea
Roland J. Thorpe, Jr., PhD The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Elizabeth Vásquez, DrPH University at Albany, SUNY, USA
Editorial Review Board
Fathya Abdelrazek, RN, PhD Suez Canal University, Egypt
Rasool Abedanzadeh, PhD Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Iran
Ojo Melvin Agunbiade, PhD Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Melahat Akdeniz, MD Akdeniz University, Turkey
Aqeel Alenazi, BSc PT, MSc, PhD Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia
Tamatha Ebert Arms, PhD, DNP, PMHNP-BC, NP-C The University of North Carolina Wilmington,USA
Dilek Aslan, MD, MSc Hacettepe University, Turkey
Upasana Baruah, MSW, M.Phil., Ph.D. Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IHBAS), India
Hasan H. Basibüyük, PhD Akdeniz University, Turkey
Allison A. Bay, BS, MPH Emory University School of Medicine, USA
Kallol Kumar Bhattacharyya, MBBS, MA, PhD Utah State University, USA
Cheryl-Ann S. Boodram, BSc, MSW, PhD University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
Alycia A. Bristol, PhD, RN, AGCNS-BC University of Utah, USA
Gavin Brookes, PhD Lancaster University, UK
Phillip A. Cantu, PhD The University of Texas Medical Branch, USA
John Robert Carabeo Medina, MD, MHS University of the Philippines Manila - National Institutes of Health, Manila, Philippines
Rogie R. Carandang, RPh, MPH, MSc, PhD University of Connecticut Health Center, USA
Tahissa Frota Cavalcante,PhD, RN Universidade da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira,Brazil
Nicole M. Cavanagh, Ph.D., LISW, MBA Walden University, USA
Daljinder Chalmers, PhD University of the West of England, UK
Soyoung Choi, Ph.D., RN University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Lesley Clack, ScD, MS Florida Gulf Coast University, USA
Luis Alvarez Condor, MD Peru
Walter Dawson, Dphil Oregon Health & Science University, USA
Neeraj Dayama, MBBS, PhD, MBA Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, USA
Hassan Dib, MD, MSc, BA University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Ryan A. Ebardo, DIT De La Salle University, Philippines
Razan AL Fakir, MD (ORL H&N), AuD, PhD Auburn University, USA
António M. Fonseca, PhD Universidade Católica Portuguesa / FEP-CEDH, Portugal
Walter B. Forman, MD,FACP, FAAHPM University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, USA
Aimee L. Fox, PhD Kansas State University, USA
Andrew Frados, DNP, MSN Miami Dade College, USA
Shaoqing Ge, PhD, MPH University of Washington, USA
Vaitsa Giannouli, PhD University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Brenda I. Gill, PhD Alabama State University, USA
Ignatius Gutsa, PhD University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
Sarah Hahn, PhD Mercy College, USA
Kwok H. Heather, PhD Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Diogo Helal, PhD Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Sandra P. Hirst, BScN, PhD University of Calgary, Canada
Jennifer Hoblyn, MB Bch BAO MMedSci MRCPsych MPH MD Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Britteny B. Howell, Ph.D., CPG, CDP University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
Dorothea L. Ivey, PhD, MSW, MPA University of Southern Maine, USA
Linda J. Keilman, DNP, MSN, GNP-BC, FAANP Michigan State University, USA
Betsy Kemeny, PhD, CTRS, CPG Slippery Rock University, USA
Noah Koblinsky, MSc., CCRP, CSEP-CEP Rotman Research Institute, Canada
Dong Hoon LEE, MD, PhD Chung-Ang University, South Korea
Raquel Leirós-Rodríguez, PhD Universidad de León, Spain
Magdalena Leszko, PhD Uniwersytet Szczecinski, Poland
Lu Li, PhD University at Buffalo, USA
Justina Y. Liu, PhD The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Catherine A. Macomber, PhD, LMSW Saginaw Valley State University, USA
Gianna Fiori Marchiori, PhD Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro, Brazil
Maria Teresa Garcia-Baquero Merino, MD Universidad Catolica San Antonio de Murcia, Spain
Sadaf Milani, PhD, MPH The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA
Carol A. Minton-Ryan, PhD, MEd, MS California Baptist University, USA
Ehsan Modirian, MD, MPH Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Rebecca S. Morse, PhD Institute for the Psychological Sciences at Divine Mercy, USA
Vu H. Nguyen, PhD University of Missouri, USA
Maria Vânia Silva Nunes, PhD Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisboa, Portugal
Gbadebo Odularu, PhD Old Dominion University, USA
Ali Davod Parsa, MD, PhD, PGDip (HSR), PGCE, FRSPH, FHEA, FIHM, FCMI, M-SSM, M-EUPHA Anglia Ruskin University, UK
László Patyán, PhD University of Debrecen, Hungary
Juliana Martins Pinto,PhD Federal University of Triangulo Mineiro ,Brazil
Kiranmai S. Rai, PhD, MSc Manipal Academy of Higher Education [MAHE], Manipal, Karnataka, India
Maricruz Rivera-Hernandez, PhD Brown University, Providence, USA
Sumru Savas, MD, PhD Ege University, Turkey
Ty S. Schepis, PhD Texas State University, USA
Lucyna Scislo, PhD Jagiellonian University Medical College, Poland
Amit Sharma, PhD SENS Research Foundation, USA
Ekaterina V. Shkurkin, PhD, LiCSW Saint Martins University, USA
Tiago Horta R. Silva, MSc, MBA, MScTCM, PGDipHE, PGDipTCM, PGDip TNM, BSc Nurs, BSc TCM, RN, FHEA, M King's College London, UK
Irene Strasser,PhD St. Bonaventure University, USA
Collette Straughair, Phd, Msc, BSC/ Registered Midwife, Dip NSc/RN Northumbria University, UK
Wanich Suksatan,RN, MSc Chulabhorn Royal Academy,Thailand
Kiran Thampi, MSW, MPhil, PhD Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, India
Kenji Tsunoda, PhD Yamaguchi Prefectural University, Japan
Sandra K. Tyson, PhD Texas Woman’s University, USA
Raquel Aparicio Ugarriza, PhD Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
Klaudija Viskovic,MD, PhD Universi of Riieka,Croatia
Leland "Bert" Waters, PhD Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Anders Wretstrand, PhD Lund University, Sweden
Huang-Ting Yan, PhD Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Hwajin Yang, PhD Singapore Management University, Singapore
Xinhua Yu, MD PhD University of Memphis, USA
Hsiu-Ping Yueh, PhD National Taiwan University, Taiwan
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  • This Journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics.

    This Journal recommends that authors follow the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals formulated by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).

    Please read the guidelines below then visit the journal’s submission site to upload your manuscript. Please note that manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned. Remember you can log in to the submission site at any time to check on the progress of your paper through the peer review process.

    Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine will be reviewed.

    As part of the submission process you will be required to warrant that you are submitting your original work, that you have the rights in the work, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you, that you are submitting the work for first publication in the Journal and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published elsewhere. Please see our guidelines on prior publication and note that GGM will consider submissions of papers that have been posted on preprint servers; please alert the Editorial Office when submitting (contact details are at the end of these guidelines) and include the DOI for the preprint in the designated field in the manuscript submission system. Authors should not post an updated version of their paper on the preprint server while it is being peer reviewed for possible publication in the Journal. If the article is accepted for publication, the author may re-use their work according to the Journal's author archiving policy.

    If your paper is accepted, you must include a link on your preprint to the final version of your paper.

    If you have any questions about publishing with Sage, please visit the Sage Journal Solutions Portal

    Please Read the Manuscript Submission Guidelines below before submitting your manuscript here:
    SUBMIT MANUSCRIPT

    1. Open Access
    2. Article processing charge (APC)
    3. What do we publish?
      3.1 Aims & scope
      3.2 Article types
      3.3 Writing your paper
      3.3.1 Making your article discoverable 
    4. Editorial policies
      4.1 Peer Review Policy
      4.2 Authorship
      4.3 Acknowledgements
      4.4 Funding
      4.5 Declaration of conflicting interests
      4.6 Research ethics and patient consent
      4.7 Clinical Trials
      4.8 Reporting guidelines
      4.9 Research Data
    5. Publishing policies
      5.1 Publication ethics
      5.2 Contributor's publishing agreement
    6. Preparing your manuscript
      6.1 Word processing formats
      6.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics
      6.3 Supplemental material
      6.4 Reference style
      6.5 English language editing services
    7. Submitting your manuscript
      7.1 How to submit your manuscript
      7.2 Title, keywords and abstracts
      7.3 Information required for completing your submission
      7.4 ORCID
      7.5 Permissions
    8. On acceptance and publication
      8.1 Sage Production
      8.2 Continuous publication
      8.3 Promoting your article
    9. Further information

    1. Open Access

    Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. Each article accepted by peer review is made freely available online immediately upon publication, is published under a Creative Commons license and will be hosted online in perpetuity. Publication costs of the journal are covered by the collection of article processing charges which are paid by the funder, institution or author of each manuscript upon acceptance. There is no charge for submitting a paper to the journal.

    For general information on open access at Sage please visit the Open Access page or view our Open
    Access FAQs.

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    2. Article processing charge (APC)

    If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time article processing charge (APC) is payable. This APC covers the cost of publication and ensures that your article will be freely available online in perpetuity under a Creative Commons licence.

    The Article Processing Charge for this Journal is $2,000 USD. Members of the Southern Gerontological Society receive a 25% discount on the APC for original research articles.

    Case Reports: The article processing charge (APC) for Case Reports is currently $750.

    Brief Reports: The article processing charge (APC) for Brief Reports is currently $750.

    Letters to the Editor: There is no article processing charge (APC) for Letters to the Editor.

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    3. What do we publish?

    3.1 Aims & scope

    Before submitting your manuscript to Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, please ensure you have read the Aims & Scope.

    3.2 Article types

    Original Research Articles: Original research articles should not exceed 4,000 words (excluding references). The word count (which includes all text including the abstract, manuscript, notes, tables, figures, etc.) should appear on the title page, along with 4-5 keywords. An abstract of up to 200 words should be included with all submissions. Authors who wish to have their manuscripts considered as a highlighted mixed method, translational, or process evaluation study should indicate this in a cover letter to the Editor.

    Papers should be clearly organized under the following headers: Introduction, Methods or Methodology, Results, Discussion, Conclusion.

    Review Articles: Articles should not exceed 5,000 words (excluding references). The word count (which includes all text including the abstract, manuscript, notes, tables, figures, etc.) should appear on the title page, along with 4-5 keywords. An abstract of up to 200 words should be included with all submissions. 

    Case Reports: Case reports should be approximately 1200 words in length and must have an unstructured abstract of approximately 150 words, up to 15 references, and one or two figures and tables. They should be structured for peer review as follows: title page (including title, all authors and affiliations, contact details and keywords), abstract, introduction, case,
    discussion/conclusion, acknowledgements, funding acknowledgements, declaration of conflict of interest, references, and figure and table legends.

    Brief Reports: Brief reports are manuscripts of a wide variety of timely topics relevant to health and aging. These reports are normally unsolicited, present opinions on health policy issues and report results in a short format. The text is limited to 2000 words, excluding abstract, one table or figure, and less than 10 references.

    Perspectives: Perspective pieces offer a viewpoint into an emerging or compelling topic or issue in the field of aging. These pieces present a multi-dimensional, holistic, or integrated view of the topic under discussion. Perspective articles are written from the point of view of author(s) and should offer an original viewpoint on the emerging, hot topic. Topics for this piece could center on observations from the fields of practice, policy, and research. While perspective pieces offer more of an opinionated viewpoint of a topic, these articles should be grounded in evidence and be supported by current literature. These forms of articles should be written in an essay format and will be subject to peer-review. Arguments should remain balanced and offer insight into future research endeavors or objectives to support the expansion of science for the field of aging. Figures may be included at the author's preference.

    Letters to the Editor: Letters to the Editor should consist of one or two paragraphs totaling no more than 500 words, no abstract, no subheadings and fewer than 8 references (one author, et al., no titles). If an abstract is included, it will automatically be made the first paragraph. Letters should not include figures or research material. Letters to the editor are not charged an APC.

    A letter to the editor is a brief communication that addresses the contents of a published article. Its purpose is to make corrections, provide alternative viewpoints, or offer counter arguments. Avoid logical fallacies and ad hominem attacks. Letters to the editor must be written in a professional tone and include references to support all claims if appropriate.
     

    3.3 Writing your paper

    The Sage Author Gateway has some general advice and on how to get published, plus links to further resources. Sage Author Services also offers authors a variety of ways to improve and enhance their article including English language editing, plagiarism detection, and video abstract and infographic preparation.

    3.3.1 Making your article discoverable 

    For information and guidance on how to make your article more discoverable, visit our Gateway page on How to Help Readers Find Your Article Online.

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    4. Editorial policies

    4.1 Peer review policy

    Following a preliminary triage to eliminate submissions unsuitable for Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine all papers are sent out for review. The covering letter is important. To help the Editor in his preliminary evaluation, please indicate why you think the paper suitable for publication. If your paper should be considered for fast-track publication, please explain why.

    The journal’s policy is to have manuscripts reviewed by two expert reviewers. Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine utilizes a double-anonymize peer review process in which the reviewer and author’s names and information are withheld from the other. All manuscripts are reviewed as rapidly as possible, while maintaining rigor. Reviewers make comments to the author and recommendations to the Editors who then makes the final decision.

    If you are asked to provide the names of a peer who could be called upon to review your manuscript, please note that reviewers should be experts in their fields and should be able to provide an objective assessment of the manuscript. Please be aware of any conflicts of interest when recommending reviewers. Examples of conflicts of interest include (but are not limited to) the below: 

    • The reviewer should have no prior knowledge of your submission
    • The reviewer should not have recently collaborated with any of the authors
    • Reviewer nominees from the same institution as any of the authors are not permitted

    Please note that the journal’s editors are not obliged to invite any recommended/opposed reviewers to assess your manuscript.

    The Editor or members of the Editorial Board may occasionally submit their own manuscripts for possible publication in the journal. In these cases, the peer review process will be managed by alternative members of the Board and the submitting Editor / Board member will have no involvement in the decision-making process.

    Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine is committed to delivering high quality, fast peer-review for your paper, and as such has partnered with Publons. Publons is a third party service that seeks to track, verify and give credit for peer review. Reviewers for Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine can opt in to Publons in order to claim their reviews or have them automatically
    verified and added to their revewer profile. Reviewers claiming credit for their review will be associated with the relevant journal, but the article name, reviewer’s decision and the content of their review is not published on the site. For more information visit the Publons website.

    The Editor or members of the Editorial Board may occasionally submit their own manuscripts for possible publication in the journal. In these cases, the peer review process will be managed by alternative members of the Board and the submitting Editor/Board member will have no involvement in the decision-making process.

    4.2 Authorship

    Papers should only be submitted for consideration once consent is given by all contributing authors. Those submitting papers should carefully check that all those whose work contributed to the paper are acknowledged as contributing authors.

    The list of authors should include all those who can legitimately claim authorship. This is all those who:

    (i) Made a substantial contribution to the concept or design of the work; or acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data,
    (ii) Drafted the article or revised it critically for important intellectual content,
    (iii) Approved the version to be published,
    (iv) Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content.

    Authors should meet the conditions of all of the points above. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content. When a large, multicentre group has conducted the work, the group should identify the individuals who accept direct responsibility for the manuscript. These individuals should fully
    meet the criteria for authorship.

    Acquisition of funding, collection of data, or general supervision of the research group alone does not constitute authorship, although all contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in the Acknowledgments section. Please refer to the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) authorship guidelines for more information on
    authorship.

    Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools.

    4.3 Acknowledgements

    All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an Acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, or a department chair who provided only general support. 

    Please supply any personal acknowledgements separately to the main text to facilitate anonymous peer review.

    4.3.1 Third party submissions
    Where an individual who is not listed as an author submits a manuscript on behalf of the author(s), a statement must be included in the Acknowledgements section of the manuscript and in the accompanying cover letter. The statements must:

    • Disclose this type of editorial assistance – including the individual’s name, company and level of input
    • Identify any entities that paid for this assistance
    • Confirm that the listed authors have authorized the submission of their manuscript via third party and approved any statements or declarations, e.g. conflicting interests, funding, etc.

    Where appropriate, Sage reserves the right to deny consideration to manuscripts submitted by a third party rather than by the authors themselves.

    4.3.2 Writing assistance

    Individuals who provided writing assistance, e.g. from a specialist communications company, do not qualify as authors and so should be included in the Acknowledgements section. Authors must disclose any writing assistance – including the individual’s name, company and level of input – and identify the entity that paid for this assistance.

    It is not necessary to disclose use of language polishing services.

    Please supply any personal acknowledgements separately to the main text to facilitate anonymous peer review.

    4.4 Funding

    Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine requires all authors to acknowledge their funding in a consistent fashion under a separate heading. Please visit the Funding Acknowledgements page on the Sage Journal Author Gateway to confirm the format of the acknowledgment text in the event of funding, or state that: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency
    in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

    4.5 Declaration of conflicting interests

    It is the policy of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine to require a declaration of conflicting interests from all authors enabling a statement to be carried within the paginated pages of all published articles.

    Please ensure that a ‘Declaration of Conflicting Interests’ statement is included at the end of your manuscript, after any acknowledgements and prior to the references. If no conflict exists, please state that ‘The Author(s) declare(s) that there is no conflict of interest’.

    For guidance on conflict of interest statements, please see the ICMJE recommendations.

    4.6 Research ethics and patient consent

    Medical research involving human subjects must be conducted according to the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki.

    Submitted manuscripts should conform to the ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals, and all papers reporting animal and/or human studies must state in the methods section that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board provided (or waived) approval. Please ensure
    that you have provided the full name and institution of the review committee, in addition to the approval number.

    For research articles, authors are also required to state in the methods section whether participants provided informed consent and whether the consent was written or verbal.

    Information on informed consent to report individual cases or case series should be included in the manuscript text. A statement is required regarding whether written informed consent for patient information and images to be published was provided by the patient(s) or a legally authorized representative. Please do not submit the patient’s actual written informed consent with your article, as this in itself breaches the patient’s confidentiality. The Journal requests that you confirm to us, in writing, that you have obtained written informed consent but the written consent itself should be held by the authors/investigators themselves, for example in a patient’s hospital record. The confirmatory letter may be uploaded with your submission as a separate file.

    Please also refer to the ICMJE Recommendations for the Protection of Research Participants

    All research involving animals submitted for publication must be approved by an ethics committee with oversight of the facility in which the studies were conducted. The Journal has adopted the ARRIVE guidelines.

    4.7 Clinical trials

    Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first patient enrolment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.

    4.8 Reporting guidelines

    The relevant EQUATOR Network reporting guidelines should be followed depending on the type of study. For example, all randomized controlled trials submitted for publication should include a completed CONSORT flow chart as a cited figure and the completed CONSORT checklist should be uploaded with your submission as a supplementary file. Systematic reviews and metaanalyses should include the completed PRISMA flow chart as a cited figure and the completed PRISMA checklist should be uploaded with your submission as a supplementary file. The EQUATOR wizard can help you identify the appropriate guideline.

    Other resources can be found at NLM’s Research Reporting Guidelines and Initiatives.

    4.9 Research Data

    The journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages.

    Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to:

    • share your research data in a relevant public data repository
    • include a data availability statement linking to your data. If it is not possible to share your data, we encourage you to consider using the statement to explain why it cannot be shared.
    • cite this data in your research

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    5. Publishing policies

    5.1 Publication ethics

    Sage is committed to upholding the integrity of the academic record. We encourage authors to refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics’ International Standards for Authors and view the Publication Ethics page on the Sage Author Gateway.

    5.1.1 Plagiarism

    Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of our authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of published articles. Equally, we seek to protect the reputation of the journal against malpractice. Submitted articles may be checked with duplication-checking software. Where an article, for example, is found to have plagiarized other work or included third-party copyright material without permission or with insufficient acknowledgement, or where the authorship of the article is contested, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing an erratum or corrigendum (correction); retracting the article; taking up the matter with the head of department or dean of the author's institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies; or taking appropriate legal action.

    5.1.2 Prior publication

    If material has been previously published, it is not generally acceptable for publication in a Sage journal. However, there are certain circumstances where previously published material can be considered for publication. Please refer to the guidance on the Sage Author Gateway or if in doubt, contact the Editor at the address given below.

    5.2 Contributor's publishing agreement

    Before publication Sage requires the author as the rights holder to sign a Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement. Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine publishes manuscripts under Creative Commons licenses. The standard license for the journal is Creative Commons by Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC), which allows others to re-use the work without permission as long as the work is properly referenced and the use is non-commercial. For more information, you are advised to visit Sage's OA licenses page

    Alternative license arrangements are available, for example, to meet particular funder mandates, made at the author’s request. 

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    6. Preparing your manuscript

    6.1 Word processing formats

    Preferred formats for the text and tables of your manuscript are Word DOC, RTF, XLS. LaTeX files are also accepted. The text should be double-spaced throughout and with a minimum of 3cm for left and right hand margins and 5cm at head and foot. Text should be standard 10 or 12 point. Word and (La)Tex templates are available on the Manuscript Submission Guidelines page of our Author Gateway.

    6.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics

    For guidance on the preparation of illustrations, pictures and graphs in electronic format, please visit Sage’s Manuscript Submission Guidelines

    Figures supplied in color will appear in color online.

    6.3 Supplemental material

    This journal is able to host additional materials online (e.g. datasets, podcasts, videos, images etc) alongside the full-text of the article. For more information please refer to our guidelines on submitting supplemental files

    6.4 Reference style

    Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine adheres to the APA reference style. Please review the guidelines on APA to ensure your manuscript conforms to this reference style

    6.5 English language editing services

    Authors seeking assistance with English language editing, translation, or figure and manuscript formatting to fit the journal’s specifications should consider using Sage Language Services. Visit Sage Language Services on our Journal Author Gateway for further information. 

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    7. Submitting your manuscript

    7.1 How to submit your manuscript

    Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine is hosted on Sage Track, a web based online submission and peer review system powered by ScholarOne™ Manuscripts. Visit https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ggm to login and submit your article online.

    IMPORTANT: Please check whether you already have an account in the system before trying to create a new one. If you have reviewed or authored for the journal in the past year it is likely that you will have had an account created. For further guidance on submitting your manuscript online please visit ScholarOne Online Help.

    7.2 Title, keywords and abstracts

    Please supply a title, short title, an abstract and 4-5 keywords to accompany your article. The title, keywords and abstract are key to ensuring readers find your article online through online search engines such as Google. Please refer to the information and guidance on how best to title your article, write your abstract and select your keywords by visiting the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidelines on How to Help Readers Find Your Article Online. 

    Please include 4-5 appropriate keywords on your Title Page. Additionally, upon submission you will be required to select a number of keywords from a pre-loaded list. These keywords are strictly for finding appropriate reviewers for your article. If accepted, your published article will only include the keywords listed on your Title Page.

    7.3 Information required for completing your submission

    Provide full contact details for the corresponding author including email, mailing address and telephone numbers. Academic affiliations are required for all co-authors. These details should be presented separately to the main text of the article to facilitate anonymous peer review.

    You will be asked to provide contact details and academic affiliations for all co-authors via the submission system and identify who is to be the corresponding author. These details must match what appears on your manuscript. The affiliation listed on the manuscript should be the institution where the research was conducted. If an author has moved to a new institution since completing the research, the new affiliation can be included in a manuscript note at the end of the paper. At this stage please ensure you have included all the required statements and declarations and uploaded any additional supplementary files (including reporting guidelines where relevant). 

    7.4 ORCID

    As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review process Sage is a supporting member of ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID. ORCID provides a unique and persistent digital identifier that distinguishes researchers from every other researcher, even those who share the same name, and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between researchers and their professional activities, ensuring that their work is recognized.

    The collection of ORCID iDs from corresponding authors is now part of the submission process of this journal. If you already have an ORCID iD you will be asked to associate that to your submission during the online submission process. We also strongly encourage all co-authors to link their ORCID ID to their accounts in our online peer review platforms. It takes seconds to do: click the link when prompted, sign into your ORCID account and our systems are automatically updated. Your ORCID iD will become part of your accepted publication’s metadata, making your work attributable to you and only you. Your ORCID iD is published with your article so that fellow researchers reading your work can link to your ORCID profile and from there link to your other publications.

    If you do not already have an ORCID iD please follow this link to create one or visit our ORCID homepage to learn more.

    7.5 Permissions

    Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. For further information including guidance on fair dealing for criticism and review, please visit our Frequently Asked Questions on the Sage Journal Author Gateway.

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    8. On acceptance and publication

    If your paper is accepted for publication after peer review, you will first be asked to complete the contributor’s publishing agreement. Once your manuscript files have been check for Sage Production, the corresponding author will be asked to pay the article processing charge (APC) via a payment link. Once the APC has been processed, your article will be prepared for publication and can appear online within an average of 30 days. Please note that no production work will occur on your paper until the
    APC has been received.

    8.1 Sage Production

    Your Sage Production Editor will keep you informed as to your article’s progress throughout the production process. Proofs will be sent by PDF to the corresponding author and should be returned promptly. Authors are reminded to check their proofs carefully to confirm that all author information, including names, affiliations, sequence and contact details are correct, and that Funding and Conflict of Interest statements, if any, are accurate.

    8.2 Online publication

    One of the many benefits of publishing your research in an open access journal is the speed to publication. Your article will be published online in a fully citable form with a DOI number as soon as it has completed the production process. At this time it will be completely free to view and download for all. 

    8.3 Promoting your article

    Publication is not the end of the process! You can help disseminate your paper and ensure it is as widely read and cited as possible. The Sage Author Gateway has numerous resources to help  you promote your work. Visit the Promote Your Article page on the Gateway for tips and advice.

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    9. Further information

    Any correspondence, queries or additional requests for information on the Manuscript Submission process should be sent to the Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine Editorial Office as follows:

    Lorianne Sarsfield, lorianne.sarsfield@sagepub.com.

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