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Journal of Labor Economics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.5), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 4, WoS SSCI. Published by University of Chicago Press.
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ISSN 0734-306XVerify ISSN ↗1537-5307Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial Relations | 7 / 61 | 89th | Q1 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 86 / 755 | 88th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present (also 1993, 1991, 1985–1989), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.5.
Journal of Labor Economics is Q1 in Industrial Relations (rank 7 of 61) and Q1 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 86 of 755), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Labor Economics 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 8.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 6.774, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 143.
Journal of Labor Economics is published by University of Chicago Press. Its print ISSN is 0734-306X and its online ISSN is 1537-5307.
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 4 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 Labor Economics has an h-index of 224 and a 2-year mean of 3.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #11 of 57 Scopus journals in Industrial Relations.
Journal of Labor Economics published 56 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 86. 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 45 research articles (2024–2025), authors are most often from United States (53.5%), United Kingdom (7.8%) and Canada (7.4%). 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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