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Economic and Industrial Democracy is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 6.2), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Sage Publications.
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ISSN 0143-831XVerify ISSN ↗1461-7099Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sage Publications
Cost to publish: About US$3,650 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 61 / 235 | 74th | Q2 |
| Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | 70 / 254 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 106 / 317 | 66th | Q2 |
| Strategy and Management | 170 / 506 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1980–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 6.2.
Economic and Industrial Democracy is Q2 in Business, Management and Accounting (all) (rank 61 of 235), Q2 in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (rank 70 of 254) and Q2 in Management of Technology and Innovation (rank 106 of 317), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Economic and Industrial Democracy is indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 6.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.153, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 55.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,650 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Economic and Industrial Democracy is published by Sage Publications. Its print ISSN is 0143-831X and its online ISSN is 1461-7099.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Human Resource Management and Employment Studies field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Economic and Industrial Democracy has an h-index of 74 and a 2-year mean of 1.81 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #108 of 221 Scopus journals in Business, Management and Accounting (all).
Economic and Industrial Democracy published 68 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 81. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 96 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (17.3%), Sweden (15%) and Italy (8.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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