Statement of Purpose

Demographic Research is a free, online, open access, peer-reviewed journal of the population sciences published by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany. The journal pioneers an expedited review system. Contributions can generally be published within one month after final acceptance.

Demographic Research aims to:

publish top-quality demographic research and related material from the full range of disciplines that bear on demography, including the social sciences, the life sciences, mathematics and statistics, policy research, and research on the discipline itself;

harness the potential of the Internet. Communications between the journal staff and authors, reviewers, and readers takes place electronically. Articles may include data files, computer programs, and other supporting material, as well as hypertext links to other Internet resources; and

encourage the development of an international community of people concerned with demographic research, including researchers, teachers, students, data producers; and users of demographic knowledge in government, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector.

Demographic Research is available at: http://www.demographic-research.org.

All material published in Demographic Research will be maintained online from volume 1 forward. It will also be available either on CD-ROM or as a print-on-demand book to subscribing individuals, libraries, and other institutions throughout the world on a cost basis. While contributions to the journal are copyrighted, the journal encourages appropriate redistribution of its contents. According to German regulations, content published before 1 October 2006 may be redistributed by any person or organization with up to seven print or digital copies as long as the content is unaltered. Permission needs to be granted by both the author(s) and the publisher for the right to make and/or distribute more than seven copies. Content published on or after 1 October 2006 is held by the author(s) under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, 2.0 Germany and is available for use according to the license rules.

The Publisher of Demographic Research is Joshua R. Goldstein, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, and head of its Laboratory of Economic and Social Demography.

The Editor is Nico Keilman. Supporting the Editor is a board of associate editors.