About the (geo)database
The database consists of articles published in Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski – Poland’s Demographic Past (excluding reviews and discussions). Their assignment to geographic area has been simplified and refers to contemporary geolocation points of localities for which research has been conducted in PDP or around which it is centered. A vague, subjective distinction has been made between microdata publications, i.e., usually those based on individual data for smaller administrative units, e.g., parishes, and others, including those with a location attribution, e.g., the seat of a governorate, regency, voivodeship, province, historical region, country, state, and so on. In the case of location-based research for the same place, we followed the principle of artificially placing markers according to their number and scale of approximation. Publications involving research methods, discussions, general discussions of the literature, etc., are shown only in the table.
To search for publications according to the chronology of their content, a standardized general division by half-century has been applied. This does not take into account the length of the data series, but only the temporal completion of the research within a given half-century. For example, if an article examines the population structure of 1791, it will be included in the set of publications assigned to the second half of the 18th century (1751–1800). On the other hand, if the article analyzes specific demographic events from 1786–1863, it will be included in the set of publications from three half-centuries (1751–1900). The article will also be included when filtering without the lower half-century limit (–1900) as well as the upper half-century limit (1751–). In the latter case, an article with data from 1791 will also be visible in the search results.
About the journal
Przeszłość Demograficzna Polski – Poland’s Demographic Past (PDP) is devoted to issues relevant to historical populations, including selected socio-professional groups or categories. In the micro approach, research based on individual mass statistical material is preferred, with particular focus on source criticism. The journal is open to papers that combine historical demography and other (sub)disciplines e.g., paleodemography, formal demography, social and economic history, history of medicine, historical geography and population geography, social anthropology, statistics, and computer science, insofar as they offer the possibility of a more complete and multidimensional consideration of demographic processes in the past. The territorial scope of PDP’s interests covers primarily the territories of the former and present Polish state, regardless of their current or former national. However, the journal does not exclude articles on other territories, especially in cases where they present relevant comparative material or provide methodological tools that can be applied to indigenous research.
PDP is an academic journal that has been associated with the Historical Demography Section since its foundation. In the past, the group operated within the framework of the Committee of Demographic Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, while at present it operates through the Committee on the History of Demographic and Social Structures under the auspices of the Committee of Historical Sciences at the Polish Academy of Sciences.
The journal appears annually and is indexed in databases such as Scopus, DOAJ, ERIH PLUS.
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