Population Studies (journal)

{{short description|Academic journal}}

{{Infobox journal

| title = Population Studies

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| abbreviation = Popul. Stud. (Camb.)

| discipline = Demography

| language = English

| editor = John Ermisch

| publisher = Taylor & Francis

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| history = 1947–present

| frequency = 3 issues/year

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| impact = 1.702

| impact-year = 2018

| ISSN = 0032-4728

| eISSN = 1477-4747

| CODEN = POSTA4

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| LCCN = sn98023299

| OCLC = 1027933877

| website = https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpst20/current

| link1 = https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpst20/current?nav=tocList

| link1-name = Online access

| link2 = https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rpst20

| link2-name = Online archive

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Population Studies is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering demography. It was established in 1947 and is published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the Population Investigation Committee.{{Cite web |url=https://www.lse.ac.uk/social-policy/research/Research-clusters/population-investigation-committee/population-studies.aspx |title=Population Studies |last=Science |first=London School of Economics and Political |website=London School of Economics and Political Science |language=en-GB |access-date=2020-02-20}} The founding editor-in-chief was David Glass, who edited the journal from 1947 until his death in 1978.{{Cite journal |date=September 2005 |title=D. V. Glass on the Problems of a Declining Population |journal=Population and Development Review |language=en |volume=31 |issue=3 |pages=557–572 |doi=10.1111/j.1728-4457.2005.00085.x |issn=0098-7921}} The current editor-in-chief is John Ermisch (University of Oxford). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 1.702, ranking it 19th out of 29 journals in the category "Demography".{{cite book |year=2019 |chapter=Journals Ranked by Impact: Demography |title=2018 Journal Citation Reports |publisher=Clarivate Analytics |edition=Social Science |series=Web of Science|title-link=Journal Citation Reports }}