Demographic Review is an online, peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes high quality theoretical and applied research in the field of demography and a wide range of related disciplines such as population history and geography, social statistics, sociology of family, marriage and partnership relations, migration studies, household economics, sociology of health and population health, intergenerational studies, etc. The journal is aimed at researchers, students, policymakers and all those interested in the socio-demographic problems of population. Its geographical focus is global. We welcome submissions on demographic issues from around the world.

The journal was founded in 2014 by Anatoly Vishnevsky (1935 - 2021).

Editor-in-Chief: Sergey Zakharov (from 2021).

Deputy Editors-in-Chief: Nikita Mkrtchyan and Sergey Timonin.

Managing Editor: Anastasia Pyankova.

The journal is published by the A.G. Vishnevsky Institute of Demography at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, and is published quarterly in Russian. Selected articles are also translated into English.

The journal is included in the list of leading peer-reviewed scientific publications of the Higher Attestation Commission of Russia, recommended for the publication of articles containing materials of candidate and doctoral dissertations.

According to the Russian Science Citation Index, Demographic Review ranks 1st among all demography journals and 6th among all sociology journals.

Full versions of all published materials are publicly available on the journal's website. Authors are not charged for publication in the journal. Copyright in published articles is held by Demographic Review. Reproduction of materials is only possible with the permission of the Editorial Board.


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