Comparative Population Studies

Aims & Scope

Comparative Population Studies (CPoS) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open-access journal of population studies and demography with a focus on comparative research. Topics published include, but are not limited to: family and fertility, ageing and mortality, health and wellbeing, migration and mobility, and population structure and development. We welcome submissions in two categories: research articles (traditional journal papers) and demographic trends around the globe (shorter papers presenting new descriptive findings). CPoS has a focus on comparative research but we also welcome submissions without a comparative focus that address a research question with high relevance for population studies. Nevertheless, we have a special interest in publishing comparative studies and comparative research methods. We believe the opportunity for comparative studies in the sense of cross-regional comparisons has never been greater, since harmonized data for comparisons become increasingly available (IPUMS, Gateway to Global Aging Data, DHS, GGS, Share, etc.). At the same time comparisons can mean a lot: comparisons across time, across countries, across the life course, across social and demographic groups, etc. We aim to promote all of these different kinds of comparisons and explicitly want to encourage authors to strengthen the comparative features of their work in their submission to CPoS.

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