The ''Journal of Population Economics'' is a quarterly
peer-reviewed
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academic journal
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that covers research on
economic
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and
demographic
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Demographic analy ...
problems. It is the official journal of the
European Society of Population Economics and is published by
Springer Science+Business Media
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Originally founded in 1842 in ...
in collaboration with POP at
UNU-MERIT
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and the Global Labor Organization.
It was established in 1987 by
Klaus F. Zimmermann (
UNU-MERIT
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), who remains the
editor-in-chief
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.
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Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index
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, Scopus
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, EconLit
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, CAB International
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, CAB Abstracts
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, and the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
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. According to the ''Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal has a 2013 impact factor
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The Impact Factor of a journa ...
of 1.470. As of August 2013, the journal was ranked by h-index
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74th out of 2,153 economics journals listed in ''RePEc
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''.
Kuznets Prize
Since 1995, the journal awards the "Kuznets Prize", named after the 1971 Nobel Prize
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laureate Simon Kuznets
Simon Smith Kuznets ( ; rus, Семён Абра́мович Кузне́ц, p=sʲɪˈmʲɵn ɐˈbraməvʲɪtɕ kʊzʲˈnʲets; April 30, 1901 – July 8, 1985) was a Russian-born American economist and statistician who received the 1971 Nobe ...
, a pioneer in populations economics, for the best article published in the journal. The editors judge the best papers, originally for a three-year period and since 2014 annually.[
]
See also
* ''Demography''
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://pop.merit.unu.edu/jpop/
Springer Journal website
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