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Best Demography journals

140 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Demography. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 35 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Population and Development Review 7.9 99th Q1 SSCI A No
2 Race Ethnicity and Education 7.8 98th Q1 SSCI No
3 Folia Geographica 7.3 98th Q1 ESCI Yes
4 Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 7.2 97th Q1 SSCI No
5 Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment 6.8 96th Q1 ESCI Yes
6 European Union Politics 6.4 96th Q1 SSCI No
7 International Migration Review 6.3 95th Q1 SSCI A No
8 Population Studies 6.3 94th Q1 SSCI A No
9 European Societies 6.2 93th Q1 SSCI Yes
10 Developmental Psychology 6.1 93th Q1 SSCI No
11 Chinese Sociological Review 5.8 92th Q1 SSCI No
12 European Journal of Population 5.6 91th Q1 SSCI B No
13 Demography 5.4 91th Q1 SSCI A No
14 Mobilities 5.3 90th Q1 SSCI No
15 Journal of Population Economics 5.1 89th Q1 SSCI A* No
16 Health Reports 5 88th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
17 Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies 4.9 88th Q1 SSCI No
18 Comparative Migration Studies 4.8 87th Q1 SSCI Yes
19 Population and Environment 4.8 86th Q1 SSCI A No
20 Journal of Migration and Health 4.8 86th Q1 ESCI Yes
21 Population, Space and Place 4.6 85th Q1 SSCI A No
22 Journal of Human Trafficking 4.5 84th Q1 No
23 Population Research and Policy Review 4.3 83th Q1 SSCI A No
24 Studies in Family Planning 4.3 83th Q1 SSCI No
25 Journal of International Migration and Integration 4.2 82th Q1 ESCI C No
26 Journal of Aging and Social Policy 4.2 81th Q1 SSCI No
27 Whiteness and Education 4.2 81th Q1 No
28 International Migration 4.1 80th Q1 SSCI A No
29 Journal of Population Ageing 4.1 79th Q1 ESCI No
30 Gender, Place and Culture 4 78th Q1 SSCI No
31 Migration Studies 3.9 78th Q1 SSCI No
32 Journal on Migration and Human Security 3.9 77th Q1 No
33 European Journal of Migration and Law 3.9 76th Q1 SSCI No
34 Asian Population Studies 3.8 76th Q1 SSCI B No
35 Genus 3.7 75th Q1 ESCI Yes
36 Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences 3.6 74th Q2 ESCI C No
37 Comparative Population Studies 3.6 73th Q2 ESCI Yes
38 Demographic Research 3.4 73th Q2 SSCI A Yes
39 Frontiers in Human Dynamics 3.4 72th Q2 ESCI Yes
40 Mathematical Population Studies 3.2 71th Q2 SCIE, SSCI No
41 Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 3.1 71th Q2 Yes
42 European Journal of Geography 3 70th Q2 Yes
43 Canadian Journal of African Studies 2.7 69th Q2 ESCI No
44 SA Journal of Human Resource Management 2.7 68th Q2 ESCI Yes
45 Life Course Research and Social Policies 2.6 68th Q2 No
46 Journal of Population Research 2.6 67th Q2 ESCI A No
47 Global Studies of Childhood 2.6 66th Q2 ESCI No
48 Journal of Demographic Economics 2.5 66th Q2 SSCI B No
49 International Journal of Refugee Law 2.4 65th Q2 ESCI No
50 Journal of Poverty 2.3 64th Q2 ESCI No
51 Revista Brasileira de Estudos de Populacao 2.2 63th Q2 Yes
52 IZA Journal of Development and Migration 2 63th Q2 No
53 Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 2 62th Q2 SSCI C No
54 Economics and Culture 1.9 61th Q2 ESCI Yes
55 Nordic Journal of Migration Research 1.9 61th Q2 ESCI Yes
56 Central and Eastern European Migration Review 1.9 60th Q2 ESCI Yes
57 World Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development 1.9 59th Q2 ESCI No
58 Biodemography and Social Biology 1.8 58th Q2 SSCI No
59 Migraciones 1.8 58th Q2 ESCI Yes
60 Journal of Population and Social Studies 1.8 57th Q2 No
61 Immigrants and Minorities 1.8 56th Q2 ESCI No
62 Population and Societies 1.7 56th Q2 No
63 World Regional Geography Book Series 1.7 55th Q2 No
64 Refuge 1.7 54th Q2 ESCI Yes
65 Demographic Review 1.6 53th Q2 Yes
66 International Journal of Population Data Science 1.6 53th Q2 ESCI Yes
67 Anthropology and Aging 1.6 52th Q2 ESCI Yes
68 Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series 1.6 51th Q2 ESCI Yes
69 Family Transitions 1.5 51th Q2 No
70 Estudios Fronterizos 1.5 50th Q2 ESCI Yes
71 Revista Galega de Economia 1.5 49th Q3 ESCI Yes
72 Canadian Studies in Population 1.5 48th Q3 SSCI No
73 Mir Rossii 1.5 48th Q3 ESCI No
74 Adoption Quarterly 1.5 47th Q3 ESCI No
75 Ager 1.4 46th Q3 ESCI No
76 Canadian Journal of Regional Science 1.4 46th Q3 No
77 Migraciones Internacionales 1.3 45th Q3 Yes
78 Settler Colonial Studies 1.3 44th Q3 ESCI No
79 Labour 1.3 43th Q3 ESCI B No
80 Nordic Welfare Research 1.3 43th Q3 ESCI Yes
81 Names 1.2 42th Q3 AHCI, SSCI Yes
82 Demografie 1.2 41th Q3 ESCI Yes
83 Cosmopolitan Civil Societies 1 41th Q3 ESCI Yes
84 Population and Economics 1 40th Q3 Yes
85 Diaspora Studies 1 39th Q3 ESCI No
86 Caucasus Survey 1 38th Q3 ESCI No
87 Population Review 1 38th Q3 ESCI No
88 International Journal of Population Studies 1 37th Q3 No
89 International Journal of Microsimulation 1 36th Q3 No
90 Treatises and Documents, Journal of Ethnic Studies 1 36th Q3 No
91 Geoadria 1 35th Q3 ESCI Yes
92 Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration 0.9 34th Q3 No
93 Acta Ethnographica Hungarica 0.8 33th Q3 No
94 Estudios Demograficos y Urbanos 0.8 33th Q3 ESCI Yes
95 Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana 0.8 32th Q3 Yes
96 Lengua y Migracion 0.8 31th Q3 ESCI No
97 Migracijske i Etnicke Teme 0.7 31th Q3 Yes
98 Current Chinese Economic Report Series 0.7 30th Q3 No
99 Statisztikai Szemle 0.7 29th Q3 No
100 Dve Domovini 0.7 28th Q3 Yes

Rank and percentile are within the Demography Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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