Death Studies

Death Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal published ten times a year by Routledge and sponsored by the Association for Death Education and Counseling^[1] – The Thanatology Association. It focuses on issues related to death, dying, bereavement, and death education.

Death Studies

Discipline	Psychology
Language	English
Edited by	Robert A. Neimeyer
Publication details
Publisher	Routledge (United Kingdom)
Frequency	10/year
Impact factor	4.340 (2021)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Death Stud.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0748-1187 (print) 1091-7683 (web)
OCLC no.	10890428
Links
Journal homepage

Publication history

Death Studies was formerly published as Death Education from 1977 to 1984. Its founding editor was Hannelore Wass.^[2] It was originally published by Hemisphere Publishing.

Abstracting and indexing

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 1.160, ranking it 22nd out of 41 journals in the category "Social Issues," 25th out of 40 journals in the category, "Biomedical Social Sciences," and 69th out of 129 journals for the category, "Multidisciplinary Psychology."^[3]

Death Studies is indexed in:

• CINAHL
• EBSCOhost Online Research Databases
• H.W. Wilson Social Science Abstracts (SocialSciAbs)
• MEDLINE
• PsycINFO