page_title: Biodemography and Social Biology
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Biodemography and Social Biology / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of journal bindings in an anthropology library, showing the transition where Eugenics Quarterly was renamed to Social Biology in 1969. Image is meant to evoke the ways in which eugenics eventually fell out of favor in American academia after the fall of the Nazis and changing ideas about reproductive autonomy and feminism began to take a more firm root.
context_page_description: Biodemography and Social Biology is a semiannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering sociobiology and biodemography. It was established in 1916 and is published by Routledge on behalf of the Society for Biodemography and Social Biology, of which it is the official journal. The editor-in-chief is Eileen M. Crimmins. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 1.372, ranking it 16th out of 29 journals in the category "Demography".
context_section_description: Biodemography and Social Biology was established in 1916 as Eugenical News. It was published under that title until 1953, during which time it was "the primary source of eugenic-related events and news in the United States". It was renamed Eugenics Quarterly in 1954, when it was launched by the American Eugenics Society as a scholarly journal focused on eugenics and related subjects. It was renamed Social Biology in 1969, as a result of the term "eugenics" falling out of fashion. It was renamed again to its current title in 2008.
caption: Copies of successive issues of the journal showing its name change from Eugenics Quarterly to Social Biology in 1969.
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