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Journal of Human Capital is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.5), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SSCI. Published by The University of Chicago Press.
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ISSN 1932-8575Verify ISSN ↗1932-8664Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) | 152 / 289 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.5.
Journal of Human Capital is Q3 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all) (rank 152 of 289), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Human Capital 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 47th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.838, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 32.
Journal of Human Capital is published by The University of Chicago Press. Its print ISSN is 1932-8575 and its online ISSN is 1932-8664.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
It is graded 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Economics, Econometrics and Statistics field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Human Capital has an h-index of 46 and a 2-year mean of 0.54 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #190 of 269 Scopus journals in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (all).
Journal of Human Capital published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 27. 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 87 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (38%), United Kingdom (8.6%) and Germany (5.6%).
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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