About the Journal

Caspian Journal of Health and Aging (CJHaA) is an open-access peer-reviewed biannual journal devoted to the field of gerontology and geriatric medicine, as well epidemiological studies relevant to the aging population. CJHaA is a biannual scientific publication of Babol University of Medical Sciences. It is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the publication of original articles, review articles, etc., considering the research ethics and academic rules and regulations on all aspects of gerontology and geriatric medicine.

All papers are subject to a double-blind reviewing process. The submitted papers will be published after a thorough review and the editorial board's approval. Honorable professors and researchers are highly recommended if they visit this website, register, submit and set up their papers based on the Instructions to Authors. Therefore, visiting in person or calling the journal office is not recommended, so all connections with authors and reviewers are made through the website.

E-mail: cjhaamubabol.ac.ir

 

Bibliographic Information
Title	Caspian Journal of Health and Aging
Journal Abbreviated Title	Casp. J. Health Aging
Abbreviated Alternate Title	CJHaA
Parallel title	Biannual Journal of Caspian Health and Aging
Persian variant title	Salāmat va sālmandī-i Khazar
CODEN	--
ISSN	Online ISSN: 2645-5749
Subject	Subject Area and Category according to the subject categorization of Scopus:        Medicine             - Geriatrics and Gerontology        Nursing             - Community and Home Care             - Gerontology      Subject Area and Category according to the subject categorization of Web of Science:        - Health Policy & Services | Gerontology
Coverage	- Aged.  - Aging.  - Aging--Nutritional aspects.  - Geriatric medicine.  - Geriatric psychiatry.  - Geriatrics.  - Gerontology.  - Health Services for the Aged.  - Medicine.  - Mental Health Services.  - Nutrition.  - Old age.  - Older people--Health and hygiene.  - Older people--Mental health services.  - Older people--Nutrition.
Language	Persian; including English abstracts and bibliographies.
Start Year	2017 - Vol. 1, No. 1 -
Frequency	Biannual
Editor-in-Chief	Abbas Shamsalinia, PhD
Place of Publication	Iran, Ramsar
Publisher	Babol University of Medical Sciences
Status	Active
Refereed	Yes; Double-Blind Peer Review.
Acceptance and Publication Time	24 weeks
LC No.	RC451.4,  RC448.5
NLM  No.	W1
MeSh Subject Headings	Aged | Geriatrics | Health Services for the Aged
URL	http://cjhaa.mubabol.ac.ir/
Type of Access	Open Access (OA)
Type of License	CC-BY-NC: Creative Commons — Attribution 4.0 International.
The Policy of Screening for Plagiarism	All manuscripts must be free from plagiarism contents. Manuscripts submitted to the Caspian Journal of Health and Aging will be screened for plagiarism using similarity check and plagiarism detection tools. All authors are suggested to use plagiarism detection software to check the similarity before submitting their manuscript to the journal. Editors check the plagiarism detection of manuscripts in the Caspian Journal of Health and Aging using the Grammarly detection software (www.grammarly.com), and iThenticate (www.ithenticate.com) for English abstracts and use Iranian plagiarism detection softwares such as IranDOC (https://tik.irandoc.ac.ir) and Samimonour (www.samimnoor.ir) for the Persian text.  Whenever it is determined that the manuscript has not complied with the plagiarism rules, the article is rejected (before accepting) and if it has been published (after accepting), it will be removed from the published list and placed in the withdrawn list (returned articles because of Failure to observe plagiarism law).
Type of Publication (Processing Charges and Publication Charges)	No publication charges are required from the author.  Full-text access: Open Access
Revenue Sources	Deputy of Research and Technology, Babol University of Medical Sciences
Type of Material	Serial (Periodical)
Description	Caspian Journal of Health and Aging (CJHaA) is an open-access peer-reviewed biannual journal in Persian (with English abstracts) devoted to the field of gerontology and geriatric medicine, as well as epidemiological studies relevant to the aging population. CJHaA is a biannual scientific publication of Babol University of Medical Sciences. It is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the publication of original articles, review articles, etc., considering the research ethics and academic rules and regulations on all aspects of gerontology and geriatric medicine.
Copyright owner / Copyright holder	Authors retain copyright to their work without restrictions.  The author has complete control over the work (e.g. retains the right to reuse, distribute, republish, etc.).
Authorship	The consent of all authors, as well as related authorities/institutions, has been received prior to the submission of the manuscript. The order of the authors (as to be reflected in the published article) has been established. The adding or deleting of authors once the manuscript has been accepted for publication would have to be accompanied by a signed statement of consent of all authors. All authors have contributed significantly to the research. Authors are obligated to participate in the peer-review process, providing retractions/ corrections/ amendments when necessary. All conflicts of interest/financial support have been declared. Any changes or corrections to a published work require the consent of all authors.
COPE	Caspian Journal of Health and Aging follows the policies and guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and abides by its Code of Conduct in dealing with potential cases of misconduct.
Open Access Statement	Caspian Journal of Health and Aging is a fully open-access journal, which means that all articles are available on the Web to all users immediately upon publication. All content of the Journal is published with open access under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). This license allows users to copy and redistribute the article under the following conditions:     - Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.     - Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material. Benefits of open access for authors include:      - Authors retain copyright to their work.      - Free access for all users worldwide.      - Increased visibility and readership.      - No spatial constraints.      - Rapid publication.   No publication charges are required from the author(s).
Digital Archiving Policy	Caspian Journal of Health and Aging works with some organizations such as the Islamic World Science Citation Database (ISC), The Iran National Library and Archives, and the own server of Babol University of Medical Sciences for maintaining our own digital archive. This makes it possible for the permanent availability and preservation of scholarly research and to ensure accessibility by converting and upgrading digital file formats to comply with new technology standards.
Data Citation	Data should be cited in the same way as article, book, and web citations, and authors are required to include data citations as part of their reference list. Data citation is appropriate for data held within institutional, subject-focused, or more general data repositories. It is not intended to take the place of community standards such as in-line citation of GenBank accession codes. When citing or making claims based on data, authors must refer to the data at the relevant place in the manuscript text and in addition provide a formal citation in the reference list. Caspian Journal of Health and Aging follows the format proposed by the Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles: Authors; Year; Dataset title; Data repository or archive; Version (if any); Persistent identifier (e.g. DOI)”.
Data Sharing Policy	Caspian Journal of Health and Aging uses the Basic Data Sharing Policy. The journal is committed to a more open research landscape, facilitating faster and more effective research discovery by enabling reproducibility and verification of data, methodology, and reporting standards. Caspian Journal of Health and Aging encourages authors to cite and share their research data including, but not limited to: raw data, processed data, software, algorithms, protocols, methods, materials. Authors are encouraged to share or make open the data supporting the results or analyses presented in their article where this does not violate the protection of human subjects or other valid privacy or security concerns.  Caspian Journal of Health and Aging encourages authors to share the data and other artifacts supporting the results in the article by archiving it in an appropriate public repository. Authors should include a Data Accessibility Statement, including a link to the repository they have used, in order that this statement can be published alongside their paper.  Caspian Journal of Health and Aging requires authors of Original Investigation, and Special Paper articles to (1) place the de-identified data associated with the manuscript in a repository; and (2) include a Data Availability Statement in the manuscript describing where and how the data can be accessed.  Caspian Journal of Health and Aging defines data as the digital materials underlying the results described in the manuscript, including but not limited to spreadsheets, text files, interview recordings or transcripts, images, videos, output from statistical software, and computer code or scripts. Authors are expected to deposit at least the minimum amount of data needed to reproduce the results described in the manuscript.  Data can be placed in any repository that makes data publicly available and provides a unique persistent identifier, including institutional repositories, general repositories (e.g., Figshare, Open Science Framework, Zenodo, Dryad, Harvard Dataverse, OpenICPSR), or discipline-specific repositories. The Data Availability Statement should be placed in the manuscript at the end of the main text before the references. This statement must include (1) an indication of the location of the data; (2) a unique identifier, such as a digital object identifier (DOI), accession number, or persistent uniform resource locator (URL); and (3) any instructions for accessing the data, if applicable. At the point of submission, you will be asked if there is a data set associated with the paper. If you reply yes, you will be asked to provide the DOI, pre-registered DOI, hyperlink, or other persistent identifier associated with the data set(s). If you have selected to provide a pre-registered DOI, please be prepared to share the reviewer URL associated with your data deposit, upon request by reviewers. Where one or multiple data sets are associated with a manuscript, these are not formally peer-reviewed as a part of the journal submission process. It is the author’s responsibility to ensure the soundness of data. Any errors in the data rest solely with the producers of the data set(s).  Please note: As you are submitting your manuscript to the Caspian Journal of Health and Aging where submissions are double-blind peer-reviewed, the main text file should not include any information that might identify the authors (i.e., Author Name, Address, Conflict of Interest and fund related information). As a data availability statement could reveal your identity, we recommend that you remove this from the anonymized version of the manuscript.  Exceptions to this policy will be made in rare cases in which de-identified data cannot be shared due to their proprietary nature or participant privacy concerns. Exceptions to policy and restrictions on data availability are granted for reasons associated with the protection of human privacy, issues such as biosafety, and/or to respect terms of use for data obtained under license from third parties. Confidential data, e.g., human subject or patient data, should always be anonymized, or permission to share should be obtained in advance. If in doubt, authors should seek counsel from their institution’s ethics committee. Authors should include a data accessibility statement, including a link to the repository they have used, in order that this statement can be published alongside their paper. Below are a few examples.   Data Availability Statement:  1. Data associated with this article are available in the Open Science Framework at .  2. The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in [repository name] at http://doi.org/[doi], reference number [reference number].  3. The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in [repository name] at [URL], reference number [reference number].  4. The data that support the findings of this study are available in [repository name] at [URL/DOI], reference number [reference number]. These data were derived from the following resources available in the public domain: [list resources and URLs]
Owned and published by	Fateme Zahra Nursing and Midwifery School of Ramsar
Chairman	Fotoukian Z . (Ph.D.)
Editor-in-Chief	Shamsalinia A. (Ph.D.)
Executive Manager	Kayhanian F.(MSc)
Manager	Einipour S.(MSc)
English text editor	Barari R.(MSc)
Persian text editor& page designer	Einipour S.(MSc)