''Rejuvenation Research'' is a bimonthly
peer-reviewed
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scientific journal
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Content
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published by
Mary Ann Liebert
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. is a privately held independent publishing company founded by its president, Mary Ann Liebert, in 1980. The company publishes peer-reviewed academic journals, books, and trade magazines in the areas of biotechnology, bio ...
that covers research on
rejuvenation
Rejuvenation is a medical discipline focused on the practical reversal of the aging process.
Rejuvenation is distinct from life extension. Life extension strategies often study the causes of aging and try to oppose those causes in order to slow ...
and
biogerontology
Biogerontology is the sub-field of gerontology concerned with the biological aging process, its evolutionary origins, and potential means to intervene in the process. The term "biogerontology" was coined by S. Rattan, and came in regular use wit ...
. The journal was established in 1998. The current acting
editor-in-chief
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is Ben Zealley. 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.
The journal exhibited unusual levels of
self-citation
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and its
journal impact factor
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of 2019 was suspended from ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'' in 2020, a sanction which hit 33 journals in total. However, the journal's 2020 impact factor was made available again in June 2021.
History
The journal was established in 1998 as the ''Journal of Anti-Aging Medicine'' with
Michael Fossel
Michael B. Fossel, M.D., Ph.D. (born 1950, Greenwich, Connecticut) is a former professor of clinical medicine at Michigan State University and is the author of several books on aging, who is best known for his views on telomerase therapy as a po ...
(
Michigan State University
Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the fi ...
) as editor-in-chief. It obtained its current title in 2004, when
Aubrey de Grey
Aubrey David Nicholas Jasper de Grey (; born 20 April 1963) is an English author and biomedical gerontologist. He is the author of ''The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging'' (1999) and co-author of ''Ending Aging'' (2007). He is known ...
took over as editor-in-chief. The current acting editor-in-chief is Ben Zealley.
SENS conferences
The journal publishes the
abstracts
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of the
biennial
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conferences of the
SENS Research Foundation
The SENS Research Foundation is a non-profit organization that does research programs and public relations work for the application of regenerative medicine to aging. It was founded in 2009, located in Mountain View, California, USA. The organiza ...
.
Abstracting and indexing
''Rejuvenation Research'' is abstracted and indexed in:
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MEDLINE
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Current Contents
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History
''Cu ...
/Clinical Medicine
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Science Citation Index Expanded
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EMBASE/Excerpta Medica
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Scopus
Scopus is Elsevier's abstract and citation database launched in 2004. Scopus covers nearly 36,377 titles (22,794 active titles and 13,583 inactive titles) from approximately 11,678 publishers, of which 34,346 are peer-reviewed journals in top-l ...
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CAB Abstracts
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See also
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Strategies for engineered negligible senescence
Strategies for engineered negligible senescence (SENS) is a range of proposed regenerative medical therapies, either planned or currently in development, for the periodic repair of all age-related damage to human tissue. These therapies have the u ...
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Timeline of senescence research
References
External links
*{{Official website, http://www.liebertpub.com/overview/rejuvenation-research/127/
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