Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Demography journal rankings 2018
40 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Demography has 40 ranked journals in 2018. The median OJR fell 0.07 on 2017 to 1.06, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.07. The top three are Journal of Economic Growth, Work Aging and Retirement, and Journal of Management Spirituality & Religion.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Social Sciences (22)
40 ranked journals
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Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
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1Journal of Economic GrowthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 21.02Q1 | 7.44 5.64 down from 2017 | 36 | 22% | $4,290 | ||
2Work Aging and RetirementOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.46Q1 | 2.99 2.03 down from 2017 | 98 | 32% | $4,177 | ||
3Journal of Management Spirituality & ReligionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.52Q1 | 2.06 0.32 up from 2017 | 63 | 28% | — | ||
4European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de DémographieSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.29Q1 | 2.10 0.50 up from 2017 | 118 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
5Population StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.15Q1 | 2.00 0.23 up from 2017 | 101 | 60% | — | ||
6Demographic ResearchOAMax Planck Institute for Demographic Research · Germany | 2.86Q1 | 1.98 0.13 down from 2017 | 331 | 100% | — | ||
7Journal of Elder Abuse & NeglectTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.61Q1 | 2.13 0.04 down from 2017 | 65 | 40% | — | ||
8The Journal of the Economics of AgeingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.53Q1 | 1.57 0.57 up from 2017 | 85 | 40% | $3,380 | ||
9Population Health MetricsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.49Q1 | 3.87 0.32 up from 2017 | 121 | 100% | $2,890 | ||
10Island Studies JournalOAUniversity of Prince Edward Island · Canada | 2.07Q1 | 1.45 0.52 up from 2017 | 124 | 100% | — | ||
11Journal of Population AgeingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.92Q2 | 1.22 1.28 down from 2017 | 82 | 26% | $3,190 | ||
12Asia & the Pacific Policy StudiesOAWiley · Australia | 1.66Q2 | 1.52 0.37 up from 2017 | 132 | 100% | $1,810 | ||
13Annual Review of Gerontology and GeriatricsSpringer Nature · United States | 1.50Q2 | 0.59 0.34 down from 2017 | 31 | — | — | ||
14Journal of Housing for the ElderlyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.45Q2 | 1.31 0.24 up from 2017 | 79 | 23% | — | ||
15Journal of Population ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Australia | 1.36Q2 | 1.31 0.18 up from 2017 | 53 | 25% | $3,190 | ||
16OceaniaWiley · Australia | 1.34Q2 | 0.32 1.36 down from 2017 | 86 | 39% | $2,900 | ||
17Journal of Divorce & RemarriageHaworth Press · United States | 1.11Q2 | 0.92 0.03 up from 2017 | 123 | 13% | — | ||
18Journal of Marine and Island CulturesOAMokpo National University · Netherlands | 1.10Q2 | 0.75 0.01 up from 2017 | 37 | 100% | — | ||
19Marriage & Family ReviewTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.07Q2 | 1.92 0.97 up from 2017 | 132 | 15% | — | ||
20The Journal of Adult ProtectionEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.07Q2 | 1.02 0.05 up from 2017 | 101 | 36% | — | ||
21North American Actuarial JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.05Q3 | 0.76 0.16 down from 2017 | 86 | 23% | — | ||
22European Actuarial JournalSpringer Nature · Germany | 1.04Q3 | 0.90 0.13 down from 2017 | 59 | 40% | $2,290 | ||
23Family Court ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 1.04Q3 | 0.92 0.39 up from 2017 | 143 | 8% | $2,900 | ||
24Documents d Anàlisi GeogràficaOAUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Geografia · Spain | 0.93Q3 | 0.55 0.21 up from 2017 | 124 | 100% | — | ||
25Working with Older PeopleEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.92Q3 | 0.90 0.43 up from 2017 | 86 | 21% | — | ||
26Journal of Technology in Human ServicesTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.87Q3 | 1.08 0.19 down from 2017 | 60 | 32% | — | ||
27Canadian Studies in PopulationSpringer Nature · Canada | 0.63Q3 | 0.47 0.25 down from 2017 | 48 | 100% | $3,290 | ||
28Journal of Jewish EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.63Q3 | 0.43 0.26 up from 2017 | 54 | 14% | — | ||
29Population reviewUnited States | 0.63Q3 | 0.60 0.43 up from 2017 | 30 | 0% | — | ||
30Activities Adaptation & AgingTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.58Q3 | 0.77 0.04 up from 2017 | 86 | 7% | — | ||
31IJREE – International Journal for Research on Extended EducationBarbara Budrich · Germany | 0.56Q4 | 0.42 0.20 up from 2017 | 61 | 100% | — | ||
32GenerationsPublisher not listed | 0.51Q4 | 0.45 0.03 up from 2017 | 143 | 0% | — | ||
33Journal of Child CustodyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.50Q4 | 0.42 0.33 down from 2017 | 50 | 24% | — | ||
34The Contemporary Pacific/The contemporary Pacific (Online)University of Hawaii Press · United States | 0.49Q4 | 0.19 0.15 down from 2017 | 151 | 23% | — | ||
35Contemporary JewrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.40Q4 | 0.29 0.06 up from 2017 | 106 | 25% | $3,090 | ||
36Annals of Actuarial ScienceCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.36Q4 | 0.56 0.15 up from 2017 | 61 | 35% | $3,550 | ||
37Anthropology & AgingOAUniversity Library System, University of Pittsburgh · United States | 0.35Q4 | 0.20 0.10 down from 2017 | 57 | 100% | — | ||
38The Journal of RetirementUnited States | 0.29Q4 | 0.21 0.19 down from 2017 | 130 | 3% | — | ||
39ShimaOAShima Publishing · Australia | 0.27Q4 | 0.28 0.04 up from 2017 | 43 | 100% | — | ||
40GerontechnologyOAInternational Society for Gerontechnology · Netherlands | 0.22Q4 | 0.21 0.04 down from 2017 | 269 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Demography highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,315
- Education714
- Political Science and International Relations321
- Communication74
- Gender Studies61
- Health52
- Safety Research51
- Public Administration50
- Urban Studies49
- Law47
- Linguistics and Language47
- Transportation47
- Library and Information Sciences42
- Demography40
- Anthropology38
- Geography, Planning and Development29
- Cultural Studies9
- Development4
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
10 additional Demography journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2015–2017, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 40
- Window papers (baseline)
- 61,173 +17.6% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 1.056 -12.4% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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| Ranked journals | 16 | 16 | 22 | 22 | 24 | 22 | 27 | 27 | 29 | 29 | 31 | 31 | 33 | 34 | 36 | 40 | 41 | 40 | 40 | 38 | 40 | 42 | 39 | 40 | 40 | 38 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 11,451 | 12,474 | 13,762 | 15,170 | 16,495 | 18,279 | 20,414 | 23,197 | 26,386 | 30,132 | 33,639 | 37,483 | 41,523 | 45,909 | 48,822 | 52,017 | 54,629 | 57,668 | 61,173 | 67,052 | 75,599 | 86,076 | 98,735 | 110,640 | 123,603 | 129,610 | |
| Median OJR | 0.711 | 0.854 | 0.72 | 0.683 | 0.56 | 0.708 | 0.680 | 0.84 | 0.86 | 0.90 | 1.09 | 1.060 | 1.16 | 1.27 | 1.23 | 1.21 | 1.14 | 1.13 | 1.056 | 1.04 | 0.97 | 0.91 | 0.83 | 0.74 | 0.82 | 0.846 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.