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Best Industrial Relations journals

59 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Industrial Relations. The top 59 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 14 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Journal of Management in Engineering 13.1 99th Q1 SCIE A No
2 Strategic Organization 11.8 95th Q1 SSCI A No
3 Personnel Review 11.3 94th Q1 SSCI A No
4 Industrial Management and Data Systems 10.1 92nd Q1 SCIE A No
5 Academy of Management Discoveries 8.7 90th Q1 SSCI A* No
6 Journal of Labor Economics 8.5 89th Q1 SSCI A* No
7 Journal of Construction Engineering and Management 8.2 87th Q1 SCIE A* No
8 Transfer 7.8 86th Q1 SSCI C No
9 Employee Relations 7.4 84th Q1 SSCI A No
10 Journal of Engineering and Technology Management - JET-M 6.8 82nd Q1 SCIE, SSCI B No
11 Work, Aging and Retirement 6.5 81st Q1 SSCI B No
12 Corporate Communications 6.3 79th Q1 ESCI B No
13 Quality Technology and Quantitative Management 5.8 77th Q1 SCIE C No
14 Cuadernos de Gestion 5.8 76th Q1 ESCI Yes
15 Journal of Industrial Relations 5.3 74th Q2 SSCI A No
16 Industrial Relations 5.3 72nd Q2 SSCI A* No
17 Business and Society Review 4.7 71st Q2 ESCI C No
18 Journal of Civil Engineering Education 4.4 69th Q2 SCIE No
19 Work in the Global Economy 4.4 68th Q2 No
20 Business and Politics 3.8 66th Q2 SSCI C Yes
21 Evidence-based HRM 3.8 64th Q2 ESCI B No
22 Industrial Relations Journal 3.7 63rd Q2 ESCI A No
23 IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 3.6 61st Q2 SSCI B No
24 Management and Labour Studies 3.5 59th Q2 C No
25 Business and Human Rights Journal 3.5 58th Q2 ESCI B No
26 Society and Economy 3.3 56th Q2 C Yes
27 Labour and Industry 2.8 54th Q2 ESCI B No
28 International Journal of Industrial Organization 2.8 53rd Q2 SSCI A* No
29 International Journal of Technology Management 2.7 51st Q2 SCIE, SSCI B No
30 Production 2.5 50th Q2 Yes
31 Journal for Labour Market Research 2.5 48th Q3 ESCI Yes
32 European Journal of Family Business 2.4 46th Q3 ESCI Yes
33 Journal of International Trade Law and Policy 2.1 45th Q3 ESCI No
34 Revista Brasileira de Gestao de Negocios 2.1 43rd Q3 SSCI Yes
35 IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2 41st Q3 No
36 IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1.9 40th Q3 A No
37 Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies 1.8 38th Q3 ESCI Yes
38 Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation 1.8 36th Q3 ESCI Yes
39 International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 1.8 35th Q3 ESCI B No
40 Labor Studies Journal 1.5 33rd Q3 B No
41 RAE Revista de Administracao de Empresas 1.4 31st Q3 SSCI C Yes
42 New Labor Forum 1.3 30th Q3 No
43 Research in Labor Economics 1.2 28th Q3 No
44 Cuadernos de Relaciones Laborales 1 27th Q3 ESCI Yes
45 Travail Humain 0.8 25th Q3 SCIE, SSCI No
46 Asian International Studies Review 0.7 23rd Q4 No
47 Revista de Gestion Publica 0.4 22nd Q4 ESCI No
48 World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development 0.4 20th Q4 No
49 Labour History 0.4 18th Q4 SSCI A No
50 Labour/Le Travail 0.3 17th Q4 AHCI, SSCI B No
51 Industrielle Beziehungen 0.3 15th Q4 No
52 Labor: Studies in Working-Class History 0.3 13th Q4 ESCI B No
53 Mundo Agrario 0.3 12th Q4 ESCI Yes
54 E-Journal of International and Comparative Labour Studies 0.3 10th Q4 ESCI No
55 Revue d'Economie Industrielle 0.2 7th Q4 No
56 Journal of Organizational Behavior Education 0.2 5th Q4 C No
57 Sociologie du Travail 0.2 4th Q4 SSCI B No
58 Retraite et Societe 0.2 2nd Q4 No
59 Printed Circuit Design and Fab/Circuits Assembly 0 0th Q4 No

Rank and percentile are within the Industrial Relations Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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