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Indian Journal of Labour Economics is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.1), ABDC C, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer International Publishing.
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ISSN 0019-5308Verify ISSN ↗0971-7927Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$3,590 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics and Econometrics | 443 / 755 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present (also 1998–2013, 1996), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.1.
Indian Journal of Labour Economics is Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 443 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Indian Journal of Labour Economics is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 2.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 41st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.412, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 28.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,590 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.
Indian Journal of Labour Economics is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0019-5308 and its online ISSN is 0971-7927.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
It is graded 1 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.
Indian Journal of Labour Economics has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 1.54 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #358 of 744 Scopus journals in Economics and Econometrics.
Indian Journal of Labour Economics published 60 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 91. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (60.4%), United Kingdom (5.3%) and United States (3.9%). 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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