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Demographic Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.4), ABDC A, WoS SSCI, DOAJ. Published by Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.
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ISSN 1435-9871Verify ISSN ↗2363-7064Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Demography | 38 / 140 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present (also 1999–2000), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.4.
Demographic Research is Q2 in Demography (rank 38 of 140), by CiteScore 2025.
Demographic Research is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 3.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.934, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 90.
Demographic Research is published by Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. Its print ISSN is 1435-9871 and its online ISSN is 2363-7064.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Human resources and industrial relations.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Demographic Research has an h-index of 115 and a 2-year mean of 2.76 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #13 of 137 Scopus journals in Demography.
Demographic Research published 76 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 127. 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 77 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (27.7%), United Kingdom (12.1%) and Germany (9.5%).
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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