Journal of Population Economics
Academic journal
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The Journal of Population Economics is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research on economic and demographic problems. It is the official journal of the European Society of Population Economics and is published by Springer Science+Business Media in collaboration with POP at UNU-MERIT and the Global Labor Organization.[1] It was established in 1987 by Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT), who remains the editor-in-chief.[1]
| Discipline | Population economics |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Klaus F. Zimmermann |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1988-present |
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of the European Society of Population Economics, POP at UNU-MERIT and the Global Labor Organization |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Hybrid | |
| 1.470 (2013) | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | J. Popul. Econ. |
| Indexing | |
| CODEN | JPECEW |
| ISSN | 0933-1433 (print) 1432-1475 (web) |
| LCCN | 91658531 |
| JSTOR | 09331433 |
| OCLC no. | 729540780 |
| Links | |
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, Scopus, EconLit, CAB International, CAB Abstracts, and the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences.[2] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2013 impact factor of 1.470.[3] As of August 2013, the journal was ranked by h-index 74th out of 2,153 economics journals listed in RePEc.[4]
Kuznets Prize
Since 1995, the journal awards the "Kuznets Prize", named after the 1971 Nobel Prize laureate Simon Kuznets, a pioneer in populations economics, for the best article published in the journal.[5] The editors judge the best papers, originally for a three-year period and since 2014 annually.[5]