Northwest Population Journal is an academic journal approved by the General Administration of Press and Publication of the People's Republic of China for public circulation at home and abroad, using new ideas, new methods, and new materials as its characteristics, and adhering to the editorial concept of ‘exciting issues, readable articles’. With scientific and reasonable columns, detailed contents, novel viewpoints, readable and informative articles, the journal is recognised as one of the influential journals in the industry. It has been awarded the Chinese Excellent Journal Award, and is now a full-text included journal in China Journal Network Database.
The main columns of Northwest Population Journal include Constructing China's Independent Demographic Knowledge System, High Quality Development of Population, Population and Economy, Population and Society, Population Aging and Social Security, and Western Studies. It is included in several core journals directories, including the Chinese Core Journals Key List (10th edition in 2023), CSSCI Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index (2023-2024) Source Journals (with extended version), Chinese Humanities and Social Sciences Journals AMI Comprehensive Evaluation (A Journal) Extended Journals, RCCSE Chinese Core Academic Journals, and being Outstanding Academic Journals of Gansu Province Universities.