Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Demography journal rankings 2024
40 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Demography has 40 ranked journals in 2024. The median OJR rose 0.07 on 2023 to 0.82, 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 Demographic Research.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2024. 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 2021–2023, the window the 2024 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 2023. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2021–2023, the window the 2024 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2021–2023 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 2015 to 2024. | Compare |
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1European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de DémographieSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 5.06Q1 | 5.94 3.28 up from 2023 | 99 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
2Journal of Economic GrowthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.34Q1 | 2.63 0.10 down from 2023 | 49 | 82% | $4,290 | ||
3Demographic ResearchOAMax Planck Institute for Demographic Research · Germany | 2.24Q1 | 2.48 0.43 down from 2023 | 246 | 100% | — | ||
4Journal of Elder Abuse & NeglectTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.23Q1 | 1.94 0.04 down from 2023 | 55 | 48% | — | ||
5Population StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.17Q1 | 2.54 0.67 down from 2023 | 109 | 85% | — | ||
6Work Aging and RetirementOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 2.75 0.33 down from 2023 | 106 | 56% | $4,177 | ||
7The Journal of the Economics of AgeingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.80Q1 | 2.35 0.15 down from 2023 | 118 | 42% | $3,380 | ||
8Population Health MetricsOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.74Q1 | 3.12 1.02 down from 2023 | 85 | 100% | $2,890 | ||
9Journal of Technology in Human ServicesTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.72Q1 | 1.96 0.55 down from 2023 | 49 | 23% | — | ||
10Marriage & Family ReviewTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.70Q1 | 4.81 2.48 up from 2023 | 71 | 24% | — | ||
11Asia & the Pacific Policy StudiesOAWiley · Australia | 1.45Q2 | 1.22 0.59 down from 2023 | 56 | 100% | $1,810 | ||
12Journal of Population ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Australia | 1.37Q2 | 1.55 1.15 down from 2023 | 72 | 59% | $3,190 | ||
13Journal of Population AgeingSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.30Q2 | 2.04 0.15 down from 2023 | 108 | 64% | $3,190 | ||
14Journal of Divorce & RemarriageHaworth Press · United States | 1.13Q2 | 1.46 0.15 down from 2023 | 68 | — | — | ||
15Journal of Management Spirituality & ReligionTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.13Q2 | 1.80 0.22 up from 2023 | 91 | 30% | — | ||
16Island Studies JournalOAUniversity of Prince Edward Island · Canada | 1.11Q2 | 1.53 0.54 down from 2023 | 106 | 100% | — | ||
17Canadian Studies in PopulationSpringer Nature · Canada | 0.98Q2 | 1.33 0.59 down from 2023 | 34 | 25% | $3,290 | ||
18North American Actuarial JournalTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.94Q2 | 1.71 0.50 up from 2023 | 106 | 35% | — | ||
19The Journal of Adult ProtectionEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.87Q2 | 1.39 0.28 down from 2023 | 67 | 51% | — | ||
20Activities Adaptation & AgingTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.83Q2 | 2.72 1.14 down from 2023 | 83 | 43% | — | ||
21OceaniaWiley · Australia | 0.80Q3 | 0.68 0.34 up from 2023 | 85 | 37% | $2,900 | ||
22European Actuarial JournalSpringer Nature · Germany | 0.76Q3 | 1.67 0.62 up from 2023 | 107 | 71% | $2,290 | ||
23Journal of Jewish EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.72Q3 | 0.48 0.15 up from 2023 | 52 | 21% | — | ||
24Annals of Actuarial ScienceCambridge University Press · United Kingdom | 0.70Q3 | 1.15 0.04 down from 2023 | 68 | 97% | $3,550 | ||
25Journal of Aging and EnvironmentTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.67Q3 | 1.18 0.16 up from 2023 | 76 | 33% | — | ||
26Contemporary JewrySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.64Q3 | 0.78 0.13 up from 2023 | 143 | 33% | $3,090 | ||
27Population reviewUnited States | 0.55Q3 | 0.45 0.30 down from 2023 | 40 | 8% | — | ||
28Documents d Anàlisi GeogràficaOAUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Geografia · Spain | 0.49Q3 | 0.65 0.10 down from 2023 | 90 | 100% | — | ||
29Family Court ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 0.48Q3 | 0.48 0.37 down from 2023 | 155 | 55% | $2,900 | ||
30Working with Older PeopleEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.46Q3 | 0.83 0.18 down from 2023 | 124 | 11% | — | ||
31Journal of Elder PolicyPublisher not listed | 0.45Q4 | 0.52 0.23 down from 2023 | 38 | 33% | $2,810 | ||
32Anthropology & AgingOAUniversity Library System, University of Pittsburgh · United States | 0.42Q4 | 0.52 0.30 down from 2023 | 52 | 100% | — | ||
33ShimaOAShima Publishing · Australia | 0.41Q4 | 0.35 0.23 down from 2023 | 109 | 100% | — | ||
34Journal of Marine and Island CulturesOAMokpo National University · Netherlands | 0.32Q4 | 0.71 0.38 down from 2023 | 95 | 100% | — | ||
35The Journal of RetirementUnited States | 0.32Q4 | 0.33 0.16 up from 2023 | 78 | 7% | — | ||
36The Contemporary Pacific/The contemporary Pacific (Online)University of Hawaii Press · United States | 0.31Q4 | 0.27 0.06 up from 2023 | 146 | 17% | — | ||
37OBM GeriatricsOAUnited States | 0.30Q4 | 0.71 0.18 up from 2023 | 115 | 100% | — | ||
38The Journal of Aging and Social ChangeUnited States | 0.28Q4 | 0.52 0.12 up from 2023 | 47 | 33% | — | ||
39GerontechnologyOAInternational Society for Gerontechnology · Netherlands | 0.19Q4 | 0.23 0.01 up from 2023 | 315 | 100% | — | ||
40IJREE – International Journal for Research on Extended EducationBarbara Budrich · Germany | 0.16Q4 | 0.21 0.06 down from 2023 | 32 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Demography highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,402
- Education698
- Political Science and International Relations334
- Communication72
- Gender Studies66
- Safety Research60
- Health56
- Urban Studies54
- Public Administration51
- Transportation51
- Linguistics and Language48
- Law46
- Demography40
- Library and Information Sciences40
- Anthropology36
- Geography, Planning and Development35
- Cultural Studies10
- Development4
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Life-span and Life-course Studies1
- Archeology0
Journals
Citations made in 2024. Corpus-wide, 87.1% 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 2021–2023, 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: 2024. Publication window: 2021–2023. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 40
- Window papers (baseline)
- 123,603 +43.6% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 0.82 -10.0% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 1
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2021–2023 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.