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Handbook of Labor Economics is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6). Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 1573-4463Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 155 / 283 | 45th | Q3 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 512 / 755 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | 173 / 254 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Business and International Management | 336 / 456 | 26th | Q3 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024–2025 (also 2011, 1999, 1986), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.6.
Handbook of Labor Economics is Q3 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 155 of 283), Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 512 of 755) and Q3 in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (rank 173 of 254), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Handbook of Labor Economics is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3, 45th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Handbook of Labor Economics is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 1573-4463.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Handbook of Labor Economics has an h-index of 63 and a 2-year mean of 4.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #30 of 274 Scopus journals in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous).
Handbook of Labor Economics published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 1999 with 54. 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.
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.
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