Journal rankings · indicator year 2022
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Subfield ranking · 2022
Demography journal rankings 2022
39 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Demography has 39 ranked journals in 2022. The median OJR fell 0.07 on 2021 to 0.83, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.70. The top three are European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de Démographie, Journal of Economic Growth, and Work Aging and Retirement.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2022. 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 2019–2021, the window the 2022 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)
39 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 2021. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2019–2021, the window the 2022 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2019–2021 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 2013 to 2022. | Compare |
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1European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de DémographieSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.96Q1 | 4.23 0.75 up from 2021 | 82 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
2Journal of Economic GrowthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.60Q1 | 2.48 2.60 down from 2021 | 38 | 74% | $4,290 | ||
3Work Aging and RetirementOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.60Q1 | 3.93 0.84 down from 2021 | 98 | 44% | $4,177 | ||
4Asia & the Pacific Policy StudiesOAWiley · Australia | 2.52Q1 | 2.49 0.88 down from 2021 | 62 | 100% | $1,810 | ||
5Population Health MetricsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.38Q1 | 5.50 1.03 up from 2021 | 93 | 100% | $2,890 | ||
6Journal of Elder Abuse & NeglectTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.10Q1 | 2.02 0.37 down from 2021 | 67 | 30% | — | ||
7Demographic ResearchOAMax Planck Institute for Demographic Research · Germany | 2.08Q1 | 3.02 0.32 up from 2021 | 296 | 100% | — | ||
8Population StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.75Q1 | 2.73 0.33 down from 2021 | 109 | 70% | — | ||
9Journal of Management Spirituality & ReligionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.72Q1 | 2.08 0.02 up from 2021 | 78 | 7% | — | ||
10The Journal of the Economics of AgeingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.70Q1 | 2.45 0.05 down from 2021 | 106 | 56% | $3,380 | ||
11OceaniaWiley · Australia | 1.60Q2 | 0.92 0.45 down from 2021 | 94 | 25% | $2,900 | ||
12Island Studies JournalOAUniversity of Prince Edward Island · Canada | 1.53Q2 | 1.68 0.09 down from 2021 | 117 | 100% | — | ||
13Journal of Technology in Human ServicesTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.46Q2 | 2.08 0.85 down from 2021 | 68 | 20% | — | ||
14Annals of Actuarial ScienceCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 1.31Q2 | 1.87 0.56 down from 2021 | 67 | 75% | $3,550 | ||
15Journal of Population AgeingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.31Q2 | 2.70 1.06 up from 2021 | 107 | 56% | $3,190 | ||
16Journal of Population ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Australia | 1.16Q2 | 2.61 1.49 up from 2021 | 57 | 67% | $3,190 | ||
17Journal of Divorce & RemarriageHaworth Press · United States | 1.15Q2 | 1.08 0.19 down from 2021 | 95 | 13% | — | ||
18Population reviewUnited States | 0.98Q2 | 1.37 0.15 up from 2021 | 36 | 0% | — | ||
19Marriage & Family ReviewTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.84Q2 | 1.49 0.24 up from 2021 | 105 | 11% | — | ||
20Journal of Aging and EnvironmentTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.83Q2 | 1.51 0.44 up from 2021 | 79 | 36% | — | ||
21European Actuarial JournalSpringer Nature · Germany | 0.80Q3 | 1.25 0.07 up from 2021 | 101 | 54% | $2,290 | ||
22North American Actuarial JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.80Q3 | 1.39 0.20 down from 2021 | 154 | 28% | — | ||
23Canadian Studies in PopulationSpringer Nature · Canada | 0.67Q3 | 1.47 0.57 up from 2021 | 51 | 64% | $3,290 | ||
24ShimaOAShima Publishing · Australia | 0.65Q3 | 0.42 0.78 down from 2021 | 97 | 100% | — | ||
25Family Court ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 0.64Q3 | 1.51 0.73 up from 2021 | 147 | 28% | $2,900 | ||
26The Journal of Adult ProtectionEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.64Q3 | 1.50 0.34 up from 2021 | 89 | 44% | — | ||
27IJREE – International Journal for Research on Extended EducationBarbara Budrich · Germany | 0.61Q3 | 0.96 0.35 up from 2021 | 44 | 90% | — | ||
28Activities Adaptation & AgingTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.58Q3 | 2.53 1.23 up from 2021 | 59 | 30% | — | ||
29Contemporary JewrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.57Q3 | 0.84 0.60 up from 2021 | 127 | 36% | $3,090 | ||
30Documents d Anàlisi GeogràficaOAUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Geografia · Spain | 0.55Q3 | 0.59 0.31 down from 2021 | 106 | 100% | — | ||
31Working with Older PeopleEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.49Q4 | 1.45 0.56 up from 2021 | 90 | 11% | — | ||
32GerontechnologyOAInternational Society for Gerontechnology · Netherlands | 0.49Q4 | 0.62 0.14 down from 2021 | 110 | 100% | — | ||
33Anthropology & AgingOAUniversity Library System, University of Pittsburgh · United States | 0.46Q4 | 1.07 0.31 up from 2021 | 68 | 100% | — | ||
34Journal of Marine and Island CulturesOAMokpo National University · Netherlands | 0.42Q4 | 0.82 0.22 up from 2021 | 59 | 100% | — | ||
35The Contemporary Pacific/The contemporary Pacific (Online)University of Hawaii Press · United States | 0.33Q4 | 0.28 0.12 down from 2021 | 160 | 22% | — | ||
36Journal of Jewish EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.32Q4 | 0.58 0.20 up from 2021 | 66 | 22% | — | ||
37The Journal of RetirementUnited States | 0.26Q4 | 0.38 0.17 down from 2021 | 72 | 6% | — | ||
38OBM GeriatricsOAUnited States | 0.25Q4 | 0.60 0.08 up from 2021 | 157 | 100% | — | ||
39The Journal of Aging and Social ChangeUnited States | 0.23Q4 | 0.41 0.06 up from 2021 | 50 | 32% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Demography highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,389
- Education752
- Political Science and International Relations339
- Communication77
- Gender Studies63
- Safety Research58
- Health54
- Public Administration52
- Linguistics and Language51
- Transportation51
- Urban Studies50
- Law47
- Library and Information Sciences42
- Demography39
- Anthropology37
- Geography, Planning and Development34
- Cultural Studies6
- Development4
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2022. Corpus-wide, 89.5% 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 2019–2021, 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: 2022. Publication window: 2019–2021. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 39
- Window papers (baseline)
- 98,735 +47.3% from indicator year 2019
- Median OJR
- 0.83 -20.3% from indicator year 2019
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2019–2021 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.