IJPDS Special Issue: Indexes and Indicators

IJPDS is delighted to introduce a special issue call focusing on Indexes and Indicators and to invite authors to submit manuscripts for consideration.

The development and use of indexes is an important part of empirical science and policy decision making. Examples include the European Index of Gender Equality, the Climate Change Performance Index and the Global Health Security Index, all created from a composite of data sources. Indexes play an important part in headline statistics, modelling of social phenomena, policy setting and evaluation. There is also a wealth of socioeconomic and other indicators such as GDP or the unemployment rate which provide unitary measures of the social, cultural and economic health of nations or regions.

Creating indexes and indicators is a complex process and embodies methodological and analytical decisions which have implications for the eventual index’s interpretation.

For this special issue we welcome:

  • Research papers demonstrating novel uses of indexes or indicators.
  • Pilot studies of a new index/indicator creation.
  • Methodological papers evaluating the construction of one or more established indices.
  • Papers proposing and developing new methodologies for index construction and or comparing different methodological approaches.

Some articles may include a combination of the above categories.

 

Closing Date: 31st January 2025

This call will remain open for 6 months. However, please be aware that IJPDS publishes articles as soon as they are ready rather than holding them and publishing them all at once. Papers that are submitted early will be published more quickly.

 

General Information:

Please refer to the Author Guidelines/How to Format your Manuscript for specifics on how to correctly format your manuscript before completing your submission.

All manuscripts must be centred on Population Data Science, as per the scope of IJPDS.

To submit a manuscript: either login to your existing account or register if you are submitting for the first time.