As of June 2025, the CiteScore 2024 (Scopus) numbers are out. In this ranking system, the Journal of Population Economics (JOPE) has stabilized and strengthened its leading position as a top field journal.
CiteScore 2024 counts the citations received in 2021-2024 to articles, reviews, conference papers, book chapters and data papers published in 2021-2024, and divides this by the number of publications published in 2021-2024.
The JOPE CiteScore 2024 (Scopus) is 8.7.
Similar to many other journals, the JOPE CiteScore is lower in 2024 (8.7) than in 2023 (9.6), but JOPE is now number 2 out of 140 journals ranked in Demography and number 72 out of 732 journals ranked in Economics and Econometrics.
Other top field journals include:
Demography: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (CiteScore 7.5/rank #4); Population and Development Review (6.5/8), Demography (6.0/11), International Migration Review (5.7/15). The journal European Societies (16.8/1) ranked before JOPE is not a common demography journal.
Economics and Econometrics: Journal of Development Economics (CiteScore 8.9/rank 67), Review of Economics of the Household (8.7/74), China Economic Review (8.2/85), Journal of Human Resources (8.1/89), Journal of Labor Economics (7.3/104). There are many non-standard journals ranked higher than JOPE.
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