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Human Resource Management Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 14.9), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 4*, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
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ISSN 0954-5395Verify ISSN ↗1748-8583Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$4,250 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 | 9 / 254 | 96th | Q1 |
| Stage | Typical time |
|---|---|
| Submission → first decision | 9 days |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 14.9.
Human Resource Management Journal is Q1 in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (rank 9 of 254), by CiteScore 2025.
Human Resource Management Journal 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 14.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.013, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 107.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,250 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 Journal is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0954-5395 and its online ISSN is 1748-8583.
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 Journal has an h-index of 134 and a 2-year mean of 3.86 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 14.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #49 of 250 Scopus journals in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.
Human Resource Management Journal published 58 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 78. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (31.2%), United States (10.8%) and Australia (9.7%).
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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