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Historical Studies in Industrial Relations is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.5), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1. Published by Liverpool University Press.
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ISSN 1362-1572Verify ISSN ↗2049-4459Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 749 / 1936 | 60th | Q2 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 600 / 745 | 19th | Q4 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 700 / 755 | 7th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.5.
Historical Studies in Industrial Relations is Q2 in History (rank 749 of 1936), Q4 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 600 of 745) and Q4 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 700 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Historical Studies in Industrial Relations 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 0.5, quartile Q2, 60th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.144, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 4.
Historical Studies in Industrial Relations is published by Liverpool University Press. Its print ISSN is 1362-1572 and its online ISSN is 2049-4459.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is rated C 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 Business History and Economic History field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Historical Studies in Industrial Relations has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #619 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Historical Studies in Industrial Relations published 14 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 19. 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 28 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from United Kingdom (64.3%), Australia (8.9%) and Netherlands (7.1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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.
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