| Journal of Population Economics | |
| Abbreviation: | J. Popul. Econ. |
| Discipline: | Population economics |
| Editor: | Klaus F. Zimmermann |
| Publisher: | Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of the European Society of Population Economics, POP at UNU-MERIT and the Global Labor Organization |
| History: | 1988-present |
| Frequency: | Quarterly |
| Openaccess: | Hybrid |
| Impact: | 1.470 |
| Impact-Year: | 2013 |
| Issn: | 0933-1433 |
| Eissn: | 1432-1475 |
| Coden: | JPECEW |
| Jstor: | 09331433 |
| Lccn: | 91658531 |
| Oclc: | 729540780 |
| Website: | http://pop.merit.unu.edu/jpop/ |
| Link1: | https://link.springer.com/journal/148 |
| Link1-Name: | Online access |
| Link2: | https://www.springer.com/economics/population/journal/148 |
| Link2-Name: | Journal page at publisher's website |
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 POP at UNU-MERIT and the Global Labor Organization.[1] It was established in 1987 by Klaus F. Zimmermann (UNU-MERIT), who remains the editor-in-chief.[1]
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences 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.
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.[4] The editors judge the best papers, originally for a three-year period and since 2014 annually.[4]