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Journal for Labour Market Research is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2510-5019Verify ISSN ↗2510-5027Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial Relations | 32 / 61 | 48th | Q3 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 403 / 755 | 46th | Q3 |
| Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | 149 / 254 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.5.
Journal for Labour Market Research is Q3 in Industrial Relations (rank 32 of 61), Q3 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 403 of 755) and Q3 in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management (rank 149 of 254), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal for Labour Market Research 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 48th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.429, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 31.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Journal for Labour Market Research is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 2510-5019 and its online ISSN is 2510-5027.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal for Labour Market Research has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 2.3 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #17 of 57 Scopus journals in Industrial Relations.
Journal for Labour Market Research published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 32. 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 98 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Germany (40.1%), Spain (6%) and United Kingdom (4.3%).
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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