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Labor Studies Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.5), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 2. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Sage Publications.
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ISSN 0160-449XVerify ISSN ↗1538-9758Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sage Publications
Cost to publish: About US$3,400 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 209 / 692 | 69th | Q2 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 766 / 1530 | 49th | Q3 |
| Industrial Relations | 41 / 61 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.5.
Labor Studies Journal is Q2 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 209 of 692), Q3 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 766 of 1530) and Q3 in Industrial Relations (rank 41 of 61), by CiteScore 2025.
Labor Studies Journal is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q2, 69th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.409, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 30.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,400 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.
Labor Studies Journal is published by Sage Publications. Its print ISSN is 0160-449X and its online ISSN is 1538-9758.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Human resources and industrial relations.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Human Resource Management and Employment Studies field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Labor Studies Journal has an h-index of 35 and a 2-year mean of 0.43 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #272 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Labor Studies Journal published 31 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 46. 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 98 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (81.1%), Canada (7.7%) and United Kingdom (5.6%). 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.
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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