The Vienna Yearbook of Population Research invites contributions expanding the state-of-the-art knowledge and methodological approaches to the following themes:
- Migration trends, patterns and spatial differences across countries, regions and populations
- Novel data and methods for measuring and analysing migration
- Socio-economic disparities in mobility and their consequences
- Drivers of migration and immobility
- Climate change and migration
- Mobility during crises: refugee and forced migration, population displacement
- Migration, partnership and fertility
- Migration, health and mortality
- Emigration and return migration and their impact on the countries of origin
- Migrants’ socio-economic integration and labour force impacts
- Migration scenarios, forecasting and projections
This special issue invites original unpublished contributions. Empirical or theoretical papers as well as papers studying geographic and spatial differences are wellcome. We welcome different types of submissions including Research articles, Review articles, Perspectives and shorter Data & Trends contributions.
Manuscript submission (full papers only) is now open. All submissions will undergo external double-blind peer review.
Submit your manuscript until 15 May 2026
The Vienna Yearbook of Population Research is a platinum open- access journal addressing population trends as well as a broad range of theoretical and methodological issues in population research. Article submission, processing, and publication are free of charge. The journal is circulated in print and online with all articles freely available on the journal website.
You can find detailed information on the submission on the VYPR website in the Author Guidelines.
For any further information, please contact the managing editor Maria Winkler-Dworak, editors.vypr@oeaw.ac.at .