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Local Population Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1). Published by Local Population Studies Society.
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ISSN 0143-2974Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Local Population Studies Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 594 / 692 | 14th | Q4 |
| Geography, Planning and Development | 853 / 876 | 2nd | Q4 |
| Demography | 139 / 140 | 1st | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1976–2025 (also 1974, 1972, 1969), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
Local Population Studies is Q4 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 594 of 692), Q4 in Geography, Planning and Development (rank 853 of 876) and Q4 in Demography (rank 139 of 140), by CiteScore 2025.
Local Population Studies is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4, 14th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.101, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 11.
Local Population Studies is published by Local Population Studies Society. Its ISSN is 0143-2974.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Local Population Studies has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #531 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Local Population Studies published 2 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 19. 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.
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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