The Journal of Aging Research and Lifestyle – JARLife is (Prevention for Healthy Longevity) indexed, abstracted (full text available) in PubMed Central (approval by the National Library of Medicine in July 2022)
Aims & Scope – Journal of Aging Research & Lifestyle (JARLife) (Prevention for Healthy Longevity)
The Journal of Aging Research & Lifestyle (JARLife) (Prevention for Healthy Longevity) is an e-only, gold open access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing a performance-based understanding of aging.
In this framework, aging is viewed not solely as the accumulation of disease or risk, but as a dynamic, time-dependent process reflected in cognitive, behavioral, and functional performance.
The journal prioritizes research that characterizes trajectories of change, detects early signals of decline or resilience, and identifies modifiable factors that shape adaptation, compensation, and recovery over time.
JARLife (Prevention for Healthy Longevity) publishes high-quality research on lifestyle and environmental factors as dynamic inputs influencing aging processes. These include, but are not limited to, physical activity, nutrition, cognitive engagement, sleep, stress, social interaction, and digital exposures. Rather than treating these factors as isolated domains, the journal encourages their study as interacting components within complex, real-world systems.
The journal is organized into five initial sections:
– Physical activity, exercise, and healthy aging
– Nutrition and healthy aging
– Cognitive stimulation and healthy aging
– Geroscience and lifestyle
– Digital aspects, lifestyle, and healthy aging
These sections are intended as entry points. Submissions that integrate multiple domains or examine interactions across behavioral, biological, and environmental factors are particularly encouraged.
JARLife (Prevention for Healthy Longevity) welcomes original investigations using a wide range of study designs, including observational studies, longitudinal cohort studies, interventional trials, and qualitative research. The journal also publishes Reviews, Meta-Analyses, Perspectives, Letters to the Editor, Methodological papers, and Research Protocols.
Priority is given to studies that:
- characterize longitudinal trajectories and intra-individual variability;
- identify early signals of decline, instability, or recovery;
- investigate interactions among multiple health behaviors and biological systems;
- evaluate multidomain lifestyle interventions;
- translate measurement into actionable strategies for prevention and optimization of aging outcomes.
Particular emphasis is placed on multidomain approaches, including clinical trials that combine two or more lifestyle interventions, as well as longitudinal studies that assess multiple behavioral factors over time. Contributions adopting a life-course perspective are strongly encouraged.
The journal welcomes methodological approaches that capture time-dependent dynamics and system behavior, including repeated-measures designs, trajectory modeling, and other analytical frameworks that move beyond cross-sectional or threshold-based inference.
Submissions that advance the conceptualization and measurement of cognitive, behavioral, and functional performance in aging are especially encouraged.
While the primary focus is on human research, mechanistic and experimental studies, including animal models, may be considered when they clearly inform human aging trajectories or performance-related processes.
The Journal of Aging Research & Lifestyle is indexed in PubMed Central.
Open access
The Journal of Aging Research & Lifestyle (JARLife) is a e-only gold open access journal.
Peer Review process
Manuscripts received for review are treated as confidential documents. The Editorial Office verifies whether the manuscript meets the journal requirements on animals and human rights, adherences to ethical guidelines, conflict of interest disclosure. If so, the manuscript is evaluated by the Editor in Chief for the validity, importance, originality and the coverage of the field. If positively judged, the peer-review of the manuscript is proposed to up to four researchers with expertise in the area (single blind). Anonymous comments made by 2-4 peer-reviewers are sent to the Corresponding Author. The manuscript can be accepted, rejected or revision might be requested. In this later case, authors have 30 days to submit the revised paper. Internal manuscripts are handled by a member of the editorial board not involved in the paper, being responsible for the whole process, including final decision about the status of the manuscript. Editors welcome comments and dissenting opinion.
Publication decisions
The Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Aging Research & Lifestyle (Prevention for Healthy Longevity) is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The Editor-in-Chief may be guided by the policies of the journal’s editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The Editor-in-Chief may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision. They evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors. The editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate. Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an Editor’s own research without the express written consent of the Author. The articles published by the Journal of Aging Research & Lifestyle (Prevention for Healthy Longevity) have been submitted, by the authors, to the editorial board committee, which paids careful attention to the quality of the information to be published. Nevertheless, Serdi Publisher is not responsible for the contents. Authors are only responsible for their opinions and their eventual mistakes.
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Administrative Contact : carine.giry@serdi-publisher.com