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This paper analyses the articles on educational gerontology published in the impact Spanish journals (from JCR) in the field of the education with the aim to provide a diachronic view of scientific productivity of this area between 2000 and 2014 and describe an overview of educational gerontology through quantitative and qualitative analysis of a number of variables. The outcomes reveal that the literature on educational gerontology are not bounded to a specific geographical area, the authors show a remarkable range of interests and there is a slight difference in favor of the articles done by women. Among the weaknesses highlight a production scarce, a low degree of multidisciplinarity in the articles, concerning co-authorship there are hardly any institutional and geographical collaboration and no longitudinal studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]