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Best Industrial Relations journals

59 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Industrial Relations. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 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 2026-10-04). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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