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Industrial and Commercial Training is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.5), ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Publishing.
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ISSN 0019-7858Verify ISSN ↗1758-5767Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 283 / 1698 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (all) | 73 / 235 | 69th | Q2 |
| Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | 86 / 254 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1969–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.5.
Industrial and Commercial Training is Q1 in Education (rank 283 of 1698), Q2 in Business, Management and Accounting (all) (rank 73 of 235) and Q2 in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (rank 86 of 254), by CiteScore 2025.
Industrial and Commercial Training 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 5.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.666, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 48.
Industrial and Commercial Training is published by Emerald Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0019-7858 and its online ISSN is 1758-5767.
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 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.
Industrial and Commercial Training has an h-index of 75 and a 2-year mean of 5.24 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #91 of 1,610 Scopus journals in Education.
Industrial and Commercial Training published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 53. 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 94 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from India (36.5%), United States (6.4%) and Ghana (4.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.3 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.
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