A catalogue dedicated to population studies
The INED Publications catalogue reflects our multidisciplinary approach to demographic phenomena and research, an approach that leads to investigating a wide range of demography questions and topics (families, fertility, mortality, migration, economic demography, aging, and others) from the perspective of disciplines such as economics, history, geography, sociology, anthropology, statistics, biology, and epidemiology. We also publish studies in social sciences methodology.
The catalogue currently includes over 350 books, as well as INED’s bilingual quarterly Population, released simultaneously in French and English; our monthly bilingual French and English bulletin Population & Societies, written for a general audience and covering a wide range of topics and issues; and an extensive, ongoing online publication entitled “European Memories of the Gulag.”
Editorial policy
Our objective: to diffuse research studies, findings, and analyses that meet strict high-quality scientific criteria, including methodological rigor, readability, and openness.
Our book series and journal editors receive original manuscripts in French or English that analyze and discuss demography studies conducted in or outside France. Contributions are submitted by researchers with a wide range of academic profiles, some from INED, most from other research institutions. Article submissions and book manuscripts are based on empirical studies and surveys in turned based on statistically robust data, or more general studies of strong analytic value. Each manuscript undergoes a careful selection process: anonymous peer evaluation and validation, editorial committee validation. Detailed editing in both French and English, including language revision, data normalization, iconography verification, and other interventions, ensure content clarity and reliability.
INED Publications releases works in several languages. Journal articles are systematically translated into English and French and edited in those two languages, and co-publishing partnerships may be mobilized to reach a still broader audience.
In accordance with the Institute’s open science policy, accessibility to our publications is a primary editorial concern. Studies are available in print and digital forms, and many of them are on open access on OpenEdition Books and Cairn, free of charge for both readers and authors. The Institute also encourages authors to deposit their articles and books in open archives such as our own ArchINED and France’s national archive HAL.
Our publications take a wide variety of forms—monographs, collective works, manuals, INED’s journal and wide-audience bulletin, web publications; they are available in different languages and diffused through a range of different supports (print, PDF, accessible ePub, HTML), making it possible to target diffusion efforts and adapted to the needs of our diverse readerships: members of the scientific community, students, public policy professionals, and non-specialized audiences.
This editorial policy is an integral part of the Institute’s strategy for building upon and promoting public research and is designed to serve the ends of overall scientific transparency, knowledge circulation, and the renown and influence of French-produced demography in the international academic world.
Books
INED has been publishing scientific works since its founding in 1945. Our INED Publications book catalogue now comprises over 350 titles. Aside from jointly published and a few special editions, the books are categorized in series that have been defined over eight decades of publishing. The following series continue to be supplemented at this time:
- Population questions
- Major surveys
- Economics and population classics
- Methods and knowledge
- Historical studies and surveys
Consult all INED Publication book series
The books in INED series all present, analyze, and discuss original demography and social science research; approaches may be empirical or more conceptual. They may also present qualitative and quantitative survey methodologies and analyses, history of ideas, social phenomena, population developments and trends. Certain series (Manuals, Methods and Knowledge) are specifically intended for training purposes.
Publishing a book with INED Publications
The book series reading committee
This is an independent committee composed mainly of external researchers; it defines the editorial line, accepts or rejects book project proposals, selects and evaluates manuscripts, while having some of them evaluated by specialists in the field or fields concerned, and supports early-career researcher-authors in publishing books based on their PhD theses.
Diffusion
As specified above, we publish books in 4 formats: print, PDF, ePub, and HTML. And in 2025 we began making ournew releases accessible to readers with certain disabilities.
INED Publication books are available through bookstores and, for individual readers, through FMSH Diffusion (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Foundation). Since 2020, our new releases and a selection of older works can be consulted free of charge in HTML format on the OpenEdition Books platform.
Book diffusion
You can find INED Publication releases in bookstores or via:
In our quarterly journal Population
ISSN: 0032-4663
Online ISSN: 1057-7966
INED has been publishing its reference international journal Population since 1946. It comes out four times a year in print and electronic versions and in both French and English.
Population publishes original researcher studies in demography and associated disciplines: sociology, economics, anthropology, history, geography, epidemiology and public health, and social science methodology. Articles may be submitted in French or English; after passing double-blind peer review, accepted texts are then translated, edited, and diffused in both languages. Population articles cover all world regions.
Since 2022 the French edition of the journal has been on immediate open access on Cairn.info as part of their "Subscribe to open" system, where no submission or publication fees are charged to authors or their institutions.
The journal’s editorial policy, instructions to authors, and evaluation procedures, together with open archive diffusion regulations and data policy are presented, in detail on the website Journal Population.
Our 4-page bulletin Population & Societies
Published 11 times a year.
ISSN: 0184-7783; online ISSN: 1950-6236
Population & Societies, designed for a wide general readership, has been published 11 times annually since 1968.
Each issue is written by one or more specialists and offers a clear, rigorous analysis of a given demographic or social question or issue, including fertility, family, health, migration, aging, inequalities, and public policy. The aim is to render the most recent research findings accessible to the broadest possible readership, including students, teachers, journalists, policymakers, associations and advocacy groups, and anyone interested in population questions.
Population & Societies is accessible free of charge online and widely diffused throughout France and across the world. One reason for its renown is the way it combines scientific rigor with educational clarity.
Web publications
"European Memories of the Gulag"
With “European Memories of the Gulag,” INED Publications has tried out a new editorial format. This extensive online publication, conceived as an adaptable “continuous book” enriched with multimedia content (see below), accompanies and encompasses the advancement of research on forced displacement in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet empire, gradually integrating new information, data, and analyses. It can be accessed in French, English, Russian, and Polish, and provides visibility for research sources, methods, and hypotheses to a varied international audience comprised of researchers, teachers, and the public at large. The work is structured in five parts: “Sound archives” (history of Stalin-era deportations by theme, biographies and personal testimonies, geography and period), “Articles” (scholarly papers), “Pathways into history” (educational resources), “Research workshop” (presentation of methodologies) and “Research data” (access to sources).
INED manages the development of this innovative, evolutive publication together with the Campus Condorcet Humathèque university library, the CERCEC center for Russian, Caucasian, East European and Central Asian studies, and the University of Strasbourg; the project receives funding from the FNSO French national foundation for open science.
Contacts
INED Publications
Campus Condorcet - 9, cours des Humanités - 93000 Aubervilliers
E mail : editions@ined.fr
