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International Labour Review is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.6), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI, DOAJ. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
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ISSN 0020-7780Verify ISSN ↗1564-913XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | 82 / 254 | 67th | Q2 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 113 / 317 | 64th | Q2 |
| Strategy and Management | 186 / 506 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1973–present (also 1945–1948), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.6.
International Labour Review is Q2 in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (rank 82 of 254), Q2 in Management of Technology and Innovation (rank 113 of 317) and Q2 in Strategy and Management (rank 186 of 506), by CiteScore 2025.
International Labour Review 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 5.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 67th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.681, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 59.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,090 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.
International Labour Review is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0020-7780 and its online ISSN is 1564-913X.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated B 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.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
International Labour Review has an h-index of 76 and a 2-year mean of 17.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #3 of 250 Scopus journals in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.
International Labour Review published 41 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 54. 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 88 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (11.4%), France (9.1%) and Canada (8%).
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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