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Comparative Population Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Bundesinstitut fur Bevolkerungsforschung.
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ISSN 1869-8980Verify ISSN ↗1869-8999Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Bundesinstitut fur Bevolkerungsforschung
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Demography | 37 / 140 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present (also 2010–2011), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.6.
Comparative Population Studies is Q2 in Demography (rank 37 of 140), by CiteScore 2025.
Comparative Population Studies is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 3.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.482, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 25.
Comparative Population Studies is published by Bundesinstitut fur Bevolkerungsforschung. Its print ISSN is 1869-8980 and its online ISSN is 1869-8999.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Comparative Population Studies has an h-index of 28 and a 2-year mean of 1.39 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #43 of 137 Scopus journals in Demography.
Comparative Population Studies published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 29. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 99 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Germany (29.7%), Austria (8.4%) and Spain (7.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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