Journal rankings · indicator year 2023
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Subfield ranking · 2023
Demography journal rankings 2023
40 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Demography has 40 ranked journals in 2023. The median OJR fell 0.09 on 2022 to 0.74, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.62. The top three are European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de Démographie, Journal of Economic Growth, and Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2023. 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 2020–2022, the window the 2023 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 2022. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2020–2022, the window the 2023 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2020–2022 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 2014 to 2023. | Compare |
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1European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de DémographieSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.83Q1 | 2.66 1.58 down from 2022 | 89 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
2Journal of Economic GrowthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.51Q1 | 2.73 0.25 up from 2022 | 44 | 79% | $4,290 | ||
3Journal of Elder Abuse & NeglectTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.30Q1 | 1.98 0.05 down from 2022 | 65 | 71% | — | ||
4Work Aging and RetirementOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.25Q1 | 3.08 0.85 down from 2022 | 109 | 61% | $4,177 | ||
5Population StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.11Q1 | 3.20 0.47 up from 2022 | 110 | 81% | — | ||
6Population Health MetricsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.10Q1 | 4.14 1.36 down from 2022 | 95 | 100% | $2,890 | ||
7Asia & the Pacific Policy StudiesOAWiley · Australia | 1.93Q1 | 1.81 0.68 down from 2022 | 67 | 100% | $1,810 | ||
8Demographic ResearchOAMax Planck Institute for Demographic Research · Germany | 1.92Q1 | 2.91 0.12 down from 2022 | 265 | 100% | — | ||
9The Journal of the Economics of AgeingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.69Q1 | 2.50 0.05 up from 2022 | 119 | 56% | $3,380 | ||
10Island Studies JournalOAUniversity of Prince Edward Island · Canada | 1.62Q1 | 2.06 0.38 up from 2022 | 114 | 100% | — | ||
11Journal of Population ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Australia | 1.44Q2 | 2.70 0.09 up from 2022 | 53 | 56% | $3,190 | ||
12Journal of Management Spirituality & ReligionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.34Q2 | 1.58 0.50 down from 2022 | 78 | 12% | — | ||
13Journal of Technology in Human ServicesTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.33Q2 | 2.52 0.43 up from 2022 | 46 | 31% | — | ||
14Journal of Divorce & RemarriageHaworth Press · United States | 1.29Q2 | 1.62 0.54 up from 2022 | 77 | 21% | — | ||
15Journal of Population AgeingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.22Q2 | 2.19 0.51 down from 2022 | 136 | 59% | $3,190 | ||
16Population reviewUnited States | 1.21Q2 | 0.76 0.61 down from 2022 | 38 | 0% | — | ||
17Marriage & Family ReviewTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.16Q2 | 2.33 0.83 up from 2022 | 102 | 39% | — | ||
18Canadian Studies in PopulationSpringer Nature · Canada | 0.90Q2 | 1.93 0.45 up from 2022 | 44 | 43% | $3,290 | ||
19Annals of Actuarial ScienceCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.86Q2 | 1.19 0.68 down from 2022 | 76 | 77% | $3,550 | ||
20The Journal of Adult ProtectionEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.81Q2 | 1.67 0.17 up from 2022 | 79 | 43% | — | ||
21European Actuarial JournalSpringer Nature · Germany | 0.68Q3 | 1.05 0.20 down from 2022 | 105 | 68% | $2,290 | ||
22North American Actuarial JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.67Q3 | 1.21 0.18 down from 2022 | 122 | 26% | — | ||
23OceaniaWiley · Australia | 0.64Q3 | 0.34 0.58 down from 2022 | 100 | 68% | $2,900 | ||
24Journal of Aging and EnvironmentTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.64Q3 | 1.02 0.50 down from 2022 | 100 | 45% | — | ||
25Documents d Anàlisi GeogràficaOAUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Geografia · Spain | 0.63Q3 | 0.74 0.15 up from 2022 | 95 | 100% | — | ||
26IJREE – International Journal for Research on Extended EducationBarbara Budrich · Germany | 0.62Q3 | 0.27 0.69 down from 2022 | 42 | 100% | — | ||
27Journal of Marine and Island CulturesOAMokpo National University · Netherlands | 0.60Q3 | 1.09 0.27 up from 2022 | 77 | 100% | — | ||
28Activities Adaptation & AgingTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.56Q3 | 3.86 1.34 up from 2022 | 72 | 30% | — | ||
29Working with Older PeopleEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.55Q3 | 1.01 0.44 down from 2022 | 119 | 21% | — | ||
30Anthropology & AgingOAUniversity Library System, University of Pittsburgh · United States | 0.55Q3 | 0.81 0.26 down from 2022 | 65 | 100% | — | ||
31Family Court ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 0.55Q4 | 0.85 0.65 down from 2022 | 156 | 44% | $2,900 | ||
32ShimaOAShima Publishing · Australia | 0.49Q4 | 0.58 0.16 up from 2022 | 109 | 100% | — | ||
33Journal of Elder PolicyPublisher not listed | 0.45Q4 | 0.75 0.15 up from 2022 | 40 | 25% | $2,810 | ||
34The Contemporary Pacific/The contemporary Pacific (Online)University of Hawaii Press · United States | 0.36Q4 | 0.22 0.07 down from 2022 | 160 | 0% | — | ||
35Contemporary JewrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.34Q4 | 0.65 0.19 down from 2022 | 134 | 34% | $3,090 | ||
36The Journal of Aging and Social ChangeUnited States | 0.27Q4 | 0.40 0.01 down from 2022 | 49 | 43% | — | ||
37Journal of Jewish EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.22Q4 | 0.33 0.25 down from 2022 | 54 | 34% | — | ||
38GerontechnologyOAInternational Society for Gerontechnology · Netherlands | 0.17Q4 | 0.21 0.41 down from 2022 | 348 | 100% | — | ||
39OBM GeriatricsOAUnited States | 0.17Q4 | 0.53 0.07 down from 2022 | 123 | 100% | — | ||
40The Journal of RetirementUnited States | 0.16Q4 | 0.18 0.20 down from 2022 | 75 | 7% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Demography highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,403
- Education732
- Political Science and International Relations334
- Communication73
- Gender Studies66
- Safety Research59
- Health55
- Transportation53
- Public Administration52
- Urban Studies52
- Linguistics and Language49
- Law45
- Library and Information Sciences41
- Demography40
- Anthropology38
- Geography, Planning and Development33
- Cultural Studies9
- Development4
- General Social Sciences4
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Life-span and Life-course Studies1
- Archeology0
Journals
Citations made in 2023. Corpus-wide, 88.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
6 additional Demography journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2020–2022, 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: 2023. Publication window: 2020–2022. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 40
- Window papers (baseline)
- 110,640 +46.4% from indicator year 2020
- Median OJR
- 0.74 -23.3% from indicator year 2020
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2020–2022 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.