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International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.8), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 1, WoS ESCI. Published by Kluwer Law International.
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ISSN 0952-617XVerify ISSN ↗1875-838XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Kluwer Law International
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 420 / 1162 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Industrial Relations | 40 / 61 | 35th | Q3 |
| Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | 169 / 254 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.8.
International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations is Q2 in Law (rank 420 of 1162), Q3 in Industrial Relations (rank 40 of 61) and Q3 in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (rank 169 of 254), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.251, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 16.
International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations is published by Kluwer Law International. Its print ISSN is 0952-617X and its online ISSN is 1875-838X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Commercial law.
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.
International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 0.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #380 of 1,057 Scopus journals in Law.
International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 30. 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 10 research articles (2022–2024), authors are most often from United Kingdom (40%), Italy (13.3%) and Spain (13.3%).
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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