Demography (journal)

Demography (journal)
Title	Demography
Discipline	Population studies
Abbreviation	Demography
Editor	Sara Johnson
Publisher	Duke University Press for the Population Association of America
Country	United States
Frequency	Quarterly
History	1964–present
Impact	3.9
Impact-year	2023

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Demography (journal) is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal published by Duke University Press on behalf of the Population Association of America, focusing on quantitative and interdisciplinary research on human populations. The journal has published work by scholars affiliated with institutions such as Harvard University, Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Chicago, and Columbia University, and has engaged debates linked to events like the United Nations World Population Conference and policies shaped in contexts including the United States Census and the European Union demographic projections.

History

The journal was established in 1964 during a period of institutional expansion that included the founding of the modern Population Association of America and the postwar growth of population studies influenced by conferences such as the Second Vatican Council demographic discussions and policy deliberations at the United Nations. Early editorial leadership included scholars connected to Office of Population Research at Princeton University and the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, and contributors came from research centers like the Rand Corporation, Brookings Institution, and Population Reference Bureau. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s the journal published research responding to geopolitical events such as migration flows after the Vietnam War, fertility transitions observed in Japan and South Korea, and mortality crises studied in the context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. In the 1990s and 2000s Demography expanded its methods by incorporating longitudinal analyses promoted at meetings like the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population and drawing on data sources including the Demographic and Health Surveys and national registers in Sweden and Norway.

The journal covers empirical and theoretical work on fertility, mortality, migration, family structure, aging, population health, and population policy with methodological contributions ranging from multilevel modeling to agent-based simulation; authors have been affiliated with London School of Economics, Stanford University, Yale University, University of Michigan, Johns Hopkins University, and McGill University. Articles frequently analyze census enumerations exemplified by the 1960 United States Census, longitudinal cohorts like the Framingham Heart Study and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, and administrative data systems such as the Social Security Administration records and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The journal also publishes work on migration corridors including movements between Mexico and the United States, internal urbanization in China, refugee displacement linked to conflicts like the Yugoslav Wars and the Syrian civil war, and demographic change relevant to policy arenas such as the European Commission and the World Health Organization.

Editorial leadership has included editors recruited from major universities and research institutes such as University of California, Los Angeles, Brown University, Cornell University, Michigan State University, and the National Bureau of Economic Research. The peer-review process relies on reviewers drawn from networks including the Population Association of America membership, editorial boards with specialists in quantitative demography and epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and statistical methodologists associated with the American Statistical Association and the Royal Statistical Society. The journal’s editorial policies emphasize transparency in data and code, reproducibility standards promoted in workshops at institutions like National Institutes of Health and Wellcome Trust, and adherence to ethical guidelines comparable to those of the Committee on Publication Ethics.

Demography is indexed in major bibliographic and citation databases including Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, EBSCOhost, and ProQuest, and is included in subject-specific indexes such as JSTOR and the Social Sciences Citation Index. Library catalogs and discovery services at institutions like the Library of Congress, British Library, Bibliothèque nationale de France, and university systems including University of Oxford and University of Cambridge provide access; major academic aggregators such as Project MUSE and institutional repositories also list the journal’s holdings.

The journal’s impact factor and citation metrics reported in outlets like Journal Citation Reports and tracked by Google Scholar reflect its prominence in the field alongside competitors such as Population Studies, European Journal of Population, Population and Development Review, and International Migration Review. Work published in the journal has influenced policy debates in bodies like the United Nations Population Fund and research agendas at funders including the National Science Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Critical reception has noted the journal’s rigorous quantitative focus in reviews appearing in venues connected to the American Sociological Association and the American Economic Association.

Notable articles have addressed the fertility transition described by scholars associated with Princeton University and University of Chicago, mortality patterns connected to research from Johns Hopkins University and the London School of Economics, and migration studies involving authors from University of California, Berkeley and Oxford University. Special issues have tackled themes such as aging and longevity with contributors linked to the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, family demography with scholars from Columbia University and Brown University, and population health incorporating work from Harvard Medical School and the World Health Organization. Other influential collections have focused on longitudinal methods, administrative data integration showcased by researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and cross-national comparative research coordinated with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.

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