Population – 2015 Report

Number of submissions

2013 / 2014 / 2015
Number of articles / English / French / All / English / French / All / English / French / All
Submitted and examined (not including Chronicles) / 27 / 36 / 63 / 36 / 33 / 69 / 35 / 34 / 69
Accepted / 9 / 8 / 17 / 7 / 9 / 16 / 10 / 8 / 18
Rejected / 14 / 20 / 34 / 26 / 14 / 40 / 18 / 21 / 39
Rejected with request for modifications / 4 / 8 / 12 / 3 / 10 / 13 / 7 / 5 / 12
Acceptance rate (accepted/submitted articles) / 33% / 22% / 27% / 19% / 27% / 23% / 28.6% / 23.5% / 26.1%

Population chief editors reviewed 69 articles; the editorial board reviewed 47 (22 were rejected before going to the board).

After launching the new Young Author Prize in 2015 the journal received 26 additional article submissions, to be reviewed in February 2016 by a jury composed of members of Population’s international committee and editorial board (submissions not included in the table above). The winning article will be published in the 2016-2 issue and put on open access.

Publication statistics

In 2015, 4 issues of the journal were published—4-2014, 1-2015, 2-2015, 3-2015—for a total of 890 pages in French and 827 in English (655 et 573 in 2014). The increase in length is due primarily to the 2015-3 issue commemorating the Institute’s 70 years of existence.

20 articles were published in 2015 (17 in 2014), including 1 file on the demographic situation in France (2015-3) comprising 2articles; 1 synthesis paper on masculinization of births (2015-2); and 1 special issue on the MAFE survey (Migrations between Africa and Europe) comprising 5 articles (2015-1).

With the 2015-1 issue, Population began publishing the book review section in English. 30 reviews were published in 2015 (22 in 2014).

Topics covered in 2015:

•Synthesis: masculinization of births (Guilmoto)

•Demographic situation: the demographic situation in France (Mazuy et al.)

•Methodology/terminology: providing access to quantitative surveys (Caporali et al.), families in the census (Trabut et al.), the vocabulary of demography (Héran)

•Migrations/integration: migrations between Africa and Europe (MAFE issue, edited by Cris Beauchemin), characteristics of migration flows to France (d’Albis et Boubtane), educational and labour market attainment of young people of immigrant background (Aeberhardt et al.), immigrant families’ relationship with the school system (Ichou et Oberti)

•Fertility: fertility theories (Leridon), contraceptive practices of Palestinian couples (Memmi and Desgrées du Lou), parental leave policies in Hungary and Poland (Matysiak and Szalma)

•Mortality/life expectancy: vanguard populations and life expectancy (Jasilionis et al.)

•Nuptiality: the role of inheritance and labour income in marital choices (Frémeaux)

•Health: AIDS and religious life in Malawi (Trinitapoli), prisoner suicide (Duthé et al.)

On-line diffusion

In French: Cairn, Necplus and Persée

In English: Cairn International, Ebsco, JSTOR, Muse, Proquest.

Open access

1 to 2 articles per issue are immediately put on open (free) online access. (In 2015, these were articles on the demographic situation, masculinization of births, prisoner suicide, feminization of migration flows from Senegal and fertility theories).

All book reviews on free access in both languages (starting with the 2015-1 issue)

Population website statistics

In 2014 the journal opened a website in French and English hosted by Cairn. The main statistics for the year2015 (19/01/15 - 19/01/16)are as follows:

Site in French (www.revue-population.fr) / Site in English (www.journal-population.com)
•11,315 visits of 1’58’’ on average, i.e., an average of 941 connections per month and 31 per day
•3.2 actions per visit and 30,630 pages consulted, including 10,000 on articles
•Young Author Prize: 447 visits of 1’36’’ on average; internationaljury information: 187 visits of 1’42’’ in 2 months:, 126 downloads
•Submission guidelines: 815 visits of 1’23’’ on average
• 228 downloads of the 2014 report / •3,374 visits of 2’34’’ on average, i.e., an average of 281 connections per month and 9.4 per day on average
•3.6 actions per visit and 10,578 pages consulted, including 2,015 on articles
•Young Author Prize: 586 visits of 1’27’’ on average, 48 downloads
•Submission guidelines: 606 visits of 1’48’’ on average
•60 downloads of the 2014 report