The Journal of Population Economics is a highly cited international quarterly that publishes original theoretical and applied research with significant policy relevance. Covering issues with challenging demographic contexts, its articles provide individual, household, firm, economy-wide and societal perspectives. A focus on United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is particularly welcome. 

A. Individual, household or family studies cover partnership formation, divorce, fertility, education, work, migration, health, conflict, violence, risky behavior and aging.

B. Macro topics include economic growth with exogenous or endogenous populations, population policy, savings, pensions, social security, housing, and health care.

C. Societal challenges of interest include gender issues, wellbeing and happiness, sexuality, abortion, religion, poverty, inequality, war, peace and refugees.

D. Firm-related topics include personnel economics and management, skilled labor recruitment, working from home, diversity, robots and artificial intelligence.

E. Studies from business, other social sciences, medicine and related fields like human biology, development, history, and public choice are considered.

F. The journal is published in cooperation with Pop at UNU-MERIT and the Global Labor Organization(GLO).

Looking forward to your high-quality submissions and productive readership!

SSCI IMPACT FACTOR (IF): 3.3 (2023) from 6.1 (2022) – 5/49 in Demography & 101/597 in Economics in 2023.
IF is calculated as citations in 2023 to Web of Science indexed items published in 2021 & 2022 divided by the number of citable items in 2021 & 2022.
SSCI 5-Year Impact Factor: 4.1 (2023) from 5.0 (2022)
SSCI Journal Citation Indicator (JCI): 1.79 (2023) from 2.13 (2022). JoPE has 79% more citation impact than the average in its category in 2023.
Rank by JCI. Demography: 2/49 (2023) Q1 from 1/49 (2022); Economics: 45/600 (2023) Q1 from 24/581 (2022)
CiteScore (Scopus): 9.6 (2023) from 9.2 (2022); 3/139, Q1 in Demography & 64/716, Q1 in Economics and Econometrics in 2023. CiteScore 2023 counts the citations received in 2020-2023 to articles, reviews, conference papers, book chapters and data papers published in 2020-2023, and divides this by the number of publications published in 2020-2023.
SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): 2.7 (2023) from 3.0 (2022)
RePEc Simple Inpact Factor: 19.807 (June 2024), Rank 92 of 4,104 journals

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