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Human Resource Management is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 15), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 4, WoS SSCI, FT50. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
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ISSN 0090-4848Verify ISSN ↗1099-050XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$4,150 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | 8 / 254 | 97th | Q1 |
| Applied Psychology | 11 / 258 | 95th | Q1 |
| Strategy and Management | 32 / 506 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 26 / 317 | 91st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1961–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 15.
Human Resource Management is Q1 in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (rank 8 of 254), Q1 in Applied Psychology (rank 11 of 258) and Q1 in Strategy and Management (rank 32 of 506), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Human Resource Management 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 15, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 4.598, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 133.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,150 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 Resource Management is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0090-4848 and its online ISSN is 1099-050X.
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 Human resources and industrial relations.
It is graded 4 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.
Human Resource Management has an h-index of 175 and a 2-year mean of 6.74 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 15, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #19 of 250 Scopus journals in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.
Human Resource Management published 128 papers in 2025. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (32.1%), China (17.4%) and United Kingdom (12%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 per 1,000 papers). 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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