Mortality

Aims & Scope

Attitudes to death and dying are shaped by the context in which these events occur.

However, while attitudes change, death remains an important and continuing aspect of the human condition.

The subjects of death and dying, grief and bereavement and memorialisation do not belong to any one discipline and this journal reflects the range of scholarship associated with them.

Not only are these subjects of interest to a range of disciplines, they are also profoundly significant to professional groups and lay people concerned with the care of dying people, deceased people, bereaved people and memorialisation.

Unique features of the journal are the Classic Revisited series wherein key texts in the study of death are subjected to contemporary reappraisal by an expert in the discipline, and Virtual Themed Issues, which are online collections of articles on key themes introduced by an expert.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1
2024	0.70

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.320

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	34

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	16014

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	147

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• A new model of grief: Bereavement and biography

  Citation: 365

  Authors: Tony

• Whose dying? A sociological critique of the 'good death'

  Citation: 143

  Authors: Bethne, Peter, Stephanie

• Defining the place of burial: What makes a cemetery a cemetery?

  Citation: 141

  Authors: Julie

• Bracketing interviews: addressing methodological challenges in qualitative interviewing in bereavement and palliative care

  Citation: 104

  Authors: Liz, Marilyn

• Health-promoting palliative care: Developing a social model for practice

  Citation: 91

  Authors: Allan

• The presence of the dead: An empirical study

  Citation: 85

  Authors: Gillian, Kate Mary

• Three ways to arrange a funeral: Mortuary variation in the modern West

  Citation: 83

  Authors: Tony

• Death and identity: Graves and funerals as cultural communication

  Citation: 76

  Authors: Eva

• Originating a movement: Cicely Saunders and the development of St Christopher's Hospice, 1957-1967

  Citation: 69

  Authors: David

• Being in, being out, being with: Affect and the role of the qualitative researcher in loss and grief research

  Citation: 68

  Authors: Louise

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