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Journal of Labor and Society is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.7), ABDC C, WoS ESCI. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 2471-4607Verify ISSN ↗2667-3657Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$2,500 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 139 / 1936 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Cultural Studies | 236 / 1434 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Political Science and International Relations | 329 / 745 | 55th | Q2 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 331 / 744 | 55th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 687 / 1530 | 55th | Q2 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 501 / 755 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.7.
Journal of Labor and Society is Q1 in History (rank 139 of 1936), Q1 in Cultural Studies (rank 236 of 1434) and Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 329 of 745), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Journal of Labor and Society 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.355, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 16.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,500 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.
Journal of Labor and Society is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2471-4607 and its online ISSN is 2667-3657.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Applied economics.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Labor and Society has an h-index of 35 and a 2-year mean of 0.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #148 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Journal of Labor and Society published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 74. 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.
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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