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Evidence-based HRM is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.8), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Group Publishing.
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ISSN 2049-3983Verify ISSN ↗2049-3991Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 73 / 283 | 74th | Q2 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) | 81 / 235 | 65th | Q2 |
| Industrial Relations | 22 / 61 | 64th | Q2 |
| Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | 115 / 254 | 54th | Q2 |
| Applied Psychology | 121 / 258 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.8.
Evidence-based HRM is Q2 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 73 of 283), Q2 in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) (rank 81 of 235) and Q2 in Industrial Relations (rank 22 of 61), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Evidence-based HRM is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 3.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.481, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 25.
Evidence-based HRM is published by Emerald Group Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2049-3983 and its online ISSN is 2049-3991.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Human resources and industrial relations.
It is graded 1 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.
Evidence-based HRM has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #90 of 274 Scopus journals in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous).
Evidence-based HRM published 58 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 68. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (27.6%), United States (11.5%) and Pakistan (5.6%).
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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