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Human Factors is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.7), ABS / AJG 3, WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Inc..
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ISSN 0018-7208Verify ISSN ↗1547-8181Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$1,500 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Behavioral Neuroscience | 5 / 93 | 95th | Q1 |
| Human Factors and Ergonomics | 3 / 48 | 94th | Q1 |
| Applied Psychology | 17 / 258 | 93rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1958–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.7.
Human Factors is Q1 in Behavioral Neuroscience (rank 5 of 93), Q1 in Human Factors and Ergonomics (rank 3 of 48) and Q1 in Applied Psychology (rank 17 of 258), by CiteScore 2025.
Human Factors is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and 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 12.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.438, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 155.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,500 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.
Human Factors is published by SAGE Publications Inc. Its print ISSN is 0018-7208 and its online ISSN is 1547-8181.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Psychology (Work and Organisational Psychology and Organisational Behaviour) field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Human Factors has an h-index of 208 and a 2-year mean of 3.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #24 of 91 Scopus journals in Behavioral Neuroscience.
Human Factors published 62 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 143. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (46.9%), China (9.2%) and United Kingdom (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.
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