Population, 2016 Report

Population, 2016 Report

Articles submitted

2014 / 2015 / 2016
Numberof articles / English / French / All / English / French / All / English / French / All
Regular submissions(not including for Young Author Prize) / 36 / 33 / 69 / 35 / 34 / 69 / 44 / 36 / 80
Accepted / 7 / 9 / 16 / 10 / 8 / 18 / 9 / 10 / 19
Rejected / 26 / 14 / 40 / 18 / 21 / 39 / 30 / 14 / 44
Rejected with request for modifications / 3 / 10 / 13 / 7 / 5 / 12 / 5 / 12 / 17
Acceptancerate (accepted/submitted articles) / 19% / 27% / 23% / 28.6% / 23.5% / 26.1% / 20.4% / 27.8% / 23.8%
Submitted for Young Author Prize / 12 / 17 / 29
Total number of submissions / 109

Population editors-in-chiefreviewed 109 articles, 29 in the framework of the Young AuthorPrize and 80 regularsubmissions.Of the 80, theeditorialboardreviewed58 (22 wererejectedbeforegoingto the board).

The number of regular submissions (not including texts submitted for the Young Author Prize) rose considerably between 2015 and 2016, particularly submissions in English. The acceptance rate is stable, however.

Young Author Prize 2015/2016: 29 articles were submitted, 7 of which were rejected without editorial board review (2 in English, 5 in French). Of the 22 examined, 10 were in English (1 accepted, 4 rejected with request for modifications, 5 rejected) and 12 in French (9 rejected with request for modifications, 3 rejected). The 2015 prize was awarded to EmanuelaStruffolino for her article “Self-reported health among lone mothers in Switzerland: Do employment and education matter?”

Publications

In 2016, 4 issues of the journalwerepublished—4-2015, 1-2016, 2-2016, 3-2016—for a total of 1588 pages,819in Frenchand769in English, slightlybelow the numbers for 2015 (890 and 827, in large part due to thelong2015-3 issue commemoratingINED’s 70thanniversary).

In 2016 the journal published 17 articlesand 2 research notes (20 articlesin 2015), includingthe annual article on thedemographic situation in France; a file on the costs of divorce togetherwith 7 commentaries (2016-3);and anoverview offemalegenital mutilation worldwide(2016-2).For the 70thanniversary of Population, the journal chose to republishan articlepublished in 1946 in each of the year’s issues, togetherwith a commentary by one or more of today’sdemographers.

The Book Reviews are alsopublished in full in French and English and on free access. In 2016, a total of 33 book reviewswerepublished (30 in 2015).

Topicsdiscussed in 2016:

•Young AuthorPrize: self-reportedhealthamonglonemothers in Switzerland (Struffolino et al.)

•Overview: femalegenital mutilationworldwide (Andro and Lesclingand)

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

• Divorce: file on the costs of divorce and commentaries (Bourreau-Dubois et al.), impact of the Civil Code on sharedcustody in Catalonia and the rest of Spain (Solsona and Spijker)

•Methodology:comparison of GGS and SHARE sources for data on ageing (Keenan et al.); representativeness in a mobile phonesurvey in Côte d’Ivoire (Larmarange et al.), sexmiscoding in the census(Banens and Le Penven), comparison of retrospectivefertility data in French censuses and Famille surveys (Brée et al.)

•Fertility and female labour force participation: by educationlevel in Europe (Wood et al.), by educationlevel in central Europe (Brzozowska)

•Mortality: changes in mortalityduringthe economic transition in Shanghai (Zhao et al.)

•Nuptiality: genderreversal of hypergamy in France (Bouchet-Valat)

•Language shift in Canada (Sabourin and Bélanger)

•Adoptions in France and abroad (Mignot)

Articles from 1946and commentaries onthem:

A. Sauvy, “Assessment of French immigration needs”, commentary by F. Héran (2016-1)

P. Vincent, “Population ageing, pensions and immigration”, commentary by D. Blanchet (2016-2)

J. Meuvret, “Subsistence crises and the demography of France under the Ancien Régime”, commentary by I.Séguy and C.Théré (2016-3)

On-line diffusion

In French: Cairn andPersée

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

On open access

1 or 2 articles per issue are on open (free) online access. The 3 anniversary articles (1946) and related commentaries have been on open access since going online. Additionally in 2016: the Young Author Prize article, the demographic situation article, the costs of divorce file, female genital mutilation overview, the articles on renal diseases and social inequalities and on gender reversal in hypergamy in France.

All book reviews are onopen access in both languages.

Population website statistics

In 2014 the journal launched abilingual French and English website.Visits to the French version are stable with regard to 2015 with the exception of visits to the Young AuthorPrize page, which have risensharply. Visits to the English version of the site have increasedconsiderably.

Visit to Population websites (01/01/2016 to 31/12/2016)

French( / English(
•11,008 visits lasting an average of 2’08’’, i.e.,917 connections per month and 30.6per dayon average (unchanged from 2015)
•3 actions per visit and27,542 pages viewed, including 9,049consultations of articles and 5,091 views of issue tables of content(unchanged from 2015)
•Young Author Prize: 956 visits (twice as many as in 2015) lasting an average of 1’59’’;internationaljury information page:788 visits of 1’15’’
•Submission guidelines: 751visitslasting an average of 1’16’’
•409 downloads: 163 of the 2015 report, 137 of the Young Author Prize article / •4,056 visits (up from 2015)lasting an average of2’32’’, i.e., of 338 connections per month and 11.3per day on average
•3.2 actions per visitand 11,595 pages viewed, including 2,295consultations of articlesand 1,959 views of issue tables of content
•Young Author Prize: 1,146 visits (twice as many as in 2015) lasting an average of 1’24’’; internationaljury information page: 544 visits of 1’21’’
•Submission guidelines: 798visits (up from 2015)lasting an average of 1’44’’
•236 downloads: 74 of the 2015 report, 141 of the Young Author Prize article, 60 of the Young Author Prize presentation

INED statistics/publication/Population (2016)

French website (ined.fr/fr/publications/population) / English website (ined.fr/en/publications/population)
•6 565 visits
• 2015-4 issue: 1,500 visits
• 2016-1 issue: 1,475 visits
• 2016-2 issue: 1,549 visits / •2 751 visits
• 2015-4 issue:137 visits
• 2016-1 issue: 266 visits
• 2016-2 issue: 222 visits

Overview of visit and download statistics – Population 2016

French edition / English edition
Visits / Visits
Population website / 11,000 / Population website / 4,000 (3,400 in 2015)
INED website / 6,500 / INED website / 2,700
Cairn / 445,800 / Cairn / 520 (in 2015)
JSTOR / 31,800 / JSTOR / 12,200
Downloads / Downloads
JSTOR / 16,650 / JSTOR / 9,100
Muse / 1,700