Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Subfield ranking · 2019
Demography journal rankings 2019
38 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Demography has 38 ranked journals in 2019. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.04 against 1.00, down 0.01 on 2018. A journal needs OJR 2.34 to reach Q1. The top three are Journal of Economic Growth, Work Aging and Retirement, and European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de Démographie.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. 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 2016–2018, the window the 2019 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)
38 ranked journals
Filters
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 2018. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2016–2018 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 2010 to 2019. | Compare |
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1Journal of Economic GrowthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 9.82Q1 | 3.95 3.49 down from 2018 | 34 | 46% | $4,290 | ||
2Work Aging and RetirementOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 4.67Q1 | 2.79 0.20 down from 2018 | 85 | 36% | $4,177 | ||
3European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de DémographieSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 3.84Q1 | 3.00 0.90 up from 2018 | 134 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
4Journal of Elder Abuse & NeglectTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.44Q1 | 1.84 0.28 down from 2018 | 61 | 17% | — | ||
5Journal of Management Spirituality & ReligionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.43Q1 | 1.95 0.11 down from 2018 | 80 | 27% | — | ||
6Asia & the Pacific Policy StudiesOAWiley · Australia | 2.97Q1 | 2.56 1.03 up from 2018 | 134 | 100% | $1,810 | ||
7Demographic ResearchOAMax Planck Institute for Demographic Research · Germany | 2.69Q1 | 2.40 0.42 up from 2018 | 334 | 100% | — | ||
8Population StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.66Q1 | 2.89 0.89 up from 2018 | 97 | 65% | — | ||
9Population Health MetricsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.40Q1 | 4.46 0.59 up from 2018 | 108 | 100% | $2,890 | ||
10Journal of Population ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Australia | 2.34Q1 | 1.03 0.28 down from 2018 | 59 | 19% | $3,190 | ||
11The Journal of the Economics of AgeingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.14Q2 | 1.68 0.11 up from 2018 | 112 | 53% | $3,380 | ||
12Island Studies JournalOAUniversity of Prince Edward Island · Canada | 2.14Q2 | 2.14 0.68 up from 2018 | 135 | 100% | — | ||
13Journal of Population AgeingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.04Q2 | 1.63 0.41 up from 2018 | 73 | 48% | $3,190 | ||
14Journal of Divorce & RemarriageHaworth Press · United States | 1.44Q2 | 1.24 0.31 up from 2018 | 135 | 9% | — | ||
15Marriage & Family ReviewTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.27Q2 | 1.21 0.72 down from 2018 | 123 | 9% | — | ||
16Journal of Housing for the ElderlyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.18Q2 | 1.49 0.19 up from 2018 | 79 | 30% | — | ||
17Documents d Anàlisi GeogràficaOAUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Geografia · Spain | 1.11Q2 | 0.57 0.02 up from 2018 | 128 | 100% | — | ||
18European Actuarial JournalSpringer Nature · Germany | 1.11Q2 | 1.39 0.49 up from 2018 | 65 | 29% | $2,290 | ||
19North American Actuarial JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.05Q2 | 1.16 0.40 up from 2018 | 88 | 19% | — | ||
20The Journal of Adult ProtectionEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.04Q3 | 1.43 0.41 up from 2018 | 85 | 40% | — | ||
21Journal of Technology in Human ServicesTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.03Q3 | 1.53 0.45 up from 2018 | 57 | 24% | — | ||
22Family Court ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 1.00Q3 | 1.18 0.25 up from 2018 | 112 | 21% | $2,900 | ||
23Working with Older PeopleEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.94Q3 | 0.98 0.08 up from 2018 | 88 | 25% | — | ||
24The Contemporary Pacific/The contemporary Pacific (Online)University of Hawaii Press · United States | 0.90Q3 | 0.62 0.43 up from 2018 | 149 | 26% | — | ||
25Activities Adaptation & AgingTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.85Q3 | 1.42 0.65 up from 2018 | 78 | 5% | — | ||
26Journal of Child CustodyTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.75Q3 | 1.13 0.71 up from 2018 | 53 | 19% | — | ||
27Journal of Marine and Island CulturesOAMokpo National University · Netherlands | 0.73Q3 | 0.41 0.34 down from 2018 | 47 | 100% | — | ||
28GenerationsPublisher not listed | 0.68Q3 | 0.71 0.26 up from 2018 | 95 | 0% | — | ||
29ShimaOAShima Publishing · Australia | 0.62Q3 | 0.35 0.07 up from 2018 | 72 | 100% | — | ||
30Research on Ageing and Social PolicyOAHipatia Press · Spain | 0.61Q4 | 0.84 0.21 down from 2018 | 30 | 100% | — | ||
31Canadian Studies in PopulationSpringer Nature · Canada | 0.56Q4 | 0.40 0.07 down from 2018 | 54 | 19% | $3,290 | ||
32OceaniaWiley · Australia | 0.55Q4 | 0.38 0.06 up from 2018 | 81 | 22% | $2,900 | ||
33IJREE – International Journal for Research on Extended EducationBarbara Budrich · Germany | 0.49Q4 | 1.17 0.75 up from 2018 | 49 | 100% | — | ||
34Journal of Jewish EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.48Q4 | 0.40 0.03 down from 2018 | 56 | 19% | — | ||
35Annals of Actuarial ScienceCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.47Q4 | 0.57 0.01 up from 2018 | 74 | 62% | $3,550 | ||
36Contemporary JewrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.43Q4 | 0.38 0.09 up from 2018 | 106 | 27% | $3,090 | ||
37GerontechnologyOAInternational Society for Gerontechnology · Netherlands | 0.17Q4 | 0.20no change | 476 | 100% | — | ||
38The Journal of RetirementUnited States | 0.17Q4 | 0.26 0.05 up from 2018 | 116 | 10% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Demography highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,325
- Education724
- Political Science and International Relations326
- Communication74
- Gender Studies64
- Safety Research56
- Health53
- Public Administration51
- Law48
- Linguistics and Language48
- Urban Studies48
- Transportation46
- Library and Information Sciences44
- Demography38
- Anthropology37
- Geography, Planning and Development31
- Cultural Studies8
- Development3
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2019. Corpus-wide, 83.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
8 additional Demography journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2016–2018, 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: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 38
- Window papers (baseline)
- 67,052 +22.7% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 1.04 -8.7% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2016–2018 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.