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Journal of Population Ageing is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.1), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V..
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ISSN 1874-7876Verify ISSN ↗1874-7884Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sociology and Political Science | 291 / 1530 | 81st | Q1 |
| Demography | 29 / 140 | 79th | Q1 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 258 / 876 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–2015 (also 2018–present), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.1.
Journal of Population Ageing is Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 291 of 1530), Q1 in Demography (rank 29 of 140) and Q2 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 258 of 876), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Population Ageing 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 4.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.570, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 22.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,190 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of Population Ageing is published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Its print ISSN is 1874-7876 and its online ISSN is 1874-7884.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Population Ageing has an h-index of 43 and a 2-year mean of 1.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #489 of 1,478 Scopus journals in Sociology and Political Science.
Journal of Population Ageing published 45 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 61. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (12.8%), China (8%) and United Kingdom (6.8%).
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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