Journal profile · Arts and Humanities-History
Przeszlosc Demograficzna Polski
ISSN 0079-7189 · eISSN 2719-4345 · Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego · Poland
Przeszlosc Demograficzna Polski: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 20 weeks (community reports); 10 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Przeszlosc Demograficzna Polski is published by Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Historical and Cultural Studies of Poland, Historical Economic and Social Studies and Polish Historical and Cultural Studies, together about 55.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are History and Demography. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
«Poland's Demographic Past» presents questions concerning historical populations, including selected groups and social and professional categories. In the micro approach the dominant type of research is the one based on individual statistical material, massive in its character and focused on source criticism. The Journal is open to research that combines historical demography and other (sub)disciplines such as paleodemography, formal demography, social and economic history, history of medicine, historical geography, geography of population, social anthropology, statistics and computer science, in so far as those disciplines enhance insight into demographic processes that took place in the past. The territorial range of PDP contains first of all the areas of the former and present-day Polish state, irrespective of their current or former national status. Yet the Journal is not closed to articles dealing with other areas, especially if they present comparative material or use methodological tools that may be suitable in research on Polish areas. Articles from outside the thematic scope are not considered for publication, although the editorial board may suggest another journal with an adequate profile. A lot of information on the Journal, first of all on the Polish historical research into various demographic aspects (about 5,000 titles), is to be found in a publication edited by Cezary Kukło and Piotr Guzowski. Demographic structures «Poland's Demographic Past» is published as an open access scientific journal. Articles are published under the licence of CC BY-SA (Creative Commons – ShareAlike). Publishing articles in PDP is completely free of costs. Striving for the highest possible quality of the Journal and for enhancing the quality of the texts that are submitted, the Editorial Staff – after consulting the Scientific Council – decided to publish «Poland's Demographic Past» once a year from 2017 onwards. Some important structural changes were introduced in the 2016 issues. Among other things, in addition to abstracts, which are concise previews of articles, there appeared more extensive summaries containing comprehensive information on the objective of the text, its sources, methods, results and conclusions; in order to be compatible with global standards the Chicago style was used in bibliographic citations. The Journal is published once a year and indexed in the following bases: Scopus, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), EBSCO, ROAD (Directory o
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Arts and Humanities-History
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Poland 24, Germany 3, Czechia 3, France 2, Ukraine 2 (35 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Historical and Cultural Studies of PolandArts and Humanities26.1%
- Historical Economic and Social StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance20.2%
- Polish Historical and Cultural StudiesSocial Sciences8.8%
- Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk ManagementSocial Sciences7.9%
- Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical GeographySocial Sciences5.6%
- Family Dynamics and RelationshipsSocial Sciences5.2%
- Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal ChangesArts and Humanities3.2%
- Soviet and Russian HistorySocial Sciences2.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | Q3 | 1297/1936 | 32nd |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
ERIH PLUSPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, Crossref
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.2LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.1LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0LetPub ·
- h-index
- 5OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 0OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.18OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 174 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
| 2025 | 10 | 10 | 44 |
| 2024 | 7 | 7 | 30 |
| 2023 | 9 | 9 | 33 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4 | 30 |
| 2021 | 3 | 3 | 10 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 20 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 20 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-SA | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Open access
- Authorship
Transliteration of Cyrillic texts per ISO 9:1995 / PN-ISO 9:2000 required. Model summary
The PDP journal requires transliteration of non-Latin (Cyrillic) texts in accordance with the requirements of the international ISO 9: 1995 standard (officially adopted by Poland as the PN-ISO 9: 2000 standard). This applies to all Cyrillic characters.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access statement
Full versions of articles published in the journal are available at wnus.edu.pl without grace period or any technological barriers.Articles are published on CC-BY-SA license and journal have not any article processing charges (APCs). Authors hold the copyright to their articles without restrictions.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
- Country or region
- Poland
- Language
- English, German, Polish
- ISSN
- 0079-7189
- Electronic ISSN
- 2719-4345
- Official links
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Przeszlosc Demograficzna Polski
How long does peer review take at Przeszlosc Demograficzna Polski?
Authors report an average review time of about 20 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Where are the editorial board members of Przeszlosc Demograficzna Polski based?
Of the 35 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Poland (24), Germany (3) and Czechia (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Przeszlosc Demograficzna Polski?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Przeszlosc Demograficzna Polski is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists ERIH PLUS; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Przeszlosc Demograficzna Polski open access, and what is the APC?
Przeszlosc Demograficzna Polski is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .