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IZA Journal of Labor Economics is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.9), ABDC A. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2193-8997Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: About US$1,535 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial Relations | 37 / 61 | 40th | Q3 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 471 / 755 | 37th | Q3 |
| Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | 164 / 254 | 35th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–2024, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.9.
IZA Journal of Labor Economics is Q3 in Industrial Relations (rank 37 of 61), Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 471 of 755) and Q3 in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (rank 164 of 254), by CiteScore 2025.
IZA Journal of Labor Economics is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q3, 40th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.265, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 24.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,535 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.
IZA Journal of Labor Economics is published by Springer Nature. Its ISSN is 2193-8997.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
IZA Journal of Labor Economics has an h-index of 33 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #55 of 57 Scopus journals in Industrial Relations.
IZA Journal of Labor Economics published 8 papers in 2023; its busiest recent year was 2015 with 23. 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 18 research articles (2021–2023), authors are most often from United States (50%), Italy (13.9%) and United Arab Emirates (5.6%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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