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Industrial Relations is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.3), 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 0019-8676Verify ISSN ↗1468-232XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$3,470 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial Relations | 17 / 61 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | 89 / 254 | 65th | Q2 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 121 / 317 | 61st | Q2 |
| Strategy and Management | 198 / 506 | 60th | Q2 |
| Stage | Typical time |
|---|---|
| Submission → first decision | 14 days |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1961–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.3.
Industrial Relations is Q2 in Industrial Relations (rank 17 of 61), Q2 in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (rank 89 of 254) and Q2 in Management of Technology and Innovation (rank 121 of 317), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Industrial Relations 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 5.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.521, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 68.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,470 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.
Industrial Relations is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0019-8676 and its online ISSN is 1468-232X.
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.
Industrial Relations has an h-index of 101 and a 2-year mean of 1.3 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #30 of 57 Scopus journals in Industrial Relations.
Industrial Relations published 42 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 99 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (26.5%), United Kingdom (19.1%) and Germany (11.4%).
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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