Journal of Population Economics

Journal of Population Economics  
Abbreviated title (ISO 4)
J. Popul. Econ.
Discipline Population economics
Language English
Edited by Klaus F. Zimmermann
Publication details
Publisher
Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of the European Society of Population Economics and the Institute for the Study of Labor
Publication history
1988-present
Frequency Quarterly
Hybrid
1.470
Indexing
ISSN 0933-1433 (print)
1432-1475 (web)
LCCN 91658531
CODEN JPECEW
OCLC no. 729540780
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The Journal of Population Economics is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research on economic and demographic problems. It is the official journal of the European Society of Population Economics and is published by Springer Science+Business Media in collaboration with the Institute for the Study of Labor. It was established in 1987 by Klaus F. Zimmermann (Institute for the Study of Labor), who remains the editor-in-chief.[1]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Social Science Citation Index, Scopus, EconLit, CAB International, CAB Abstracts, and the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences.[2] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2013 impact factor of 1.470.[3] As of August 2013, the journal was ranked by h-index 74th out of 2,153 economics journals listed in RePEc.[4]

Kuznets Prize

Since 1995, the journal awards the "Kuznets Prize", named after the 1971 Nobel Prize laureate Simon Kuznets, a pioneer in populations economics, for the best article published in the journal.[5] The editors judge the best papers, originally for a three-year period and since 2014 annually.[6]

See also

References

  1. "IZA Institute for the Study of Labor Journals". Retrieved 2014-03-28.
  2. "Journal of Population Economics". Springer Science+Business Media. 2012. Retrieved February 5, 2015.
  3. "Journal of Population Economics". 2013 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2014.
  4. IDEAS/RePEc h-index for Journals, retrieved March 13, 2015
  5. "Kuznets Prize". Journal of Population Economics. Institute for the Study of Labor.
  6. "Previous Kuznets Prizes". Journal of Population Economics. Institute for the Study of Labor.

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