Death Studies

Aims & Scope

The Institute of Scientific Information Journal Citations Report for 2005 ranks Death Studies 13th out of 27 journals in Biomedical Social Sciences, 6th out of 31 journals in Social Issues, and 32nd out of 101 journals in Multidisciplinary Psychology, with an Impact Factor of 1.099.

Now published ten times each year, this acclaimed journal provides refereed papers on significant research, scholarship, and practical approaches in the fast growing areas of bereavement and loss, grief therapy, death attitudes, suicide, and death education. It provides an international interdisciplinary forum in which a variety of professionals share results of research and practice, with the aim of better understanding the human encounter with death and assisting those who work with the dying and their families.