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International Journal of Manpower is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12.3), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Emerald Group Publishing.
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ISSN 0143-7720Verify ISSN ↗1758-6577Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | 17 / 254 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Strategy and Management | 63 / 506 | 87th | Q1 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 42 / 317 | 86th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1980–present (also 1970), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.3.
International Journal of Manpower is Q1 in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (rank 17 of 254), Q1 in Strategy and Management (rank 63 of 506) and Q1 in Management of Technology and Innovation (rank 42 of 317), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Manpower 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 12.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.286, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 84.
International Journal of Manpower is published by Emerald Group Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0143-7720 and its online ISSN is 1758-6577.
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 2 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 Manpower has an h-index of 113 and a 2-year mean of 2.72 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #88 of 250 Scopus journals in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.
International Journal of Manpower published 80 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 124. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (16.4%), Spain (6.2%) and Türkiye (5.2%).
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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