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Labour and Industry is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.8), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 2, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor & Francis Online.
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ISSN 1030-1763Verify ISSN ↗2325-5676Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 105 / 283 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Public Administration | 109 / 248 | 56th | Q2 |
| Industrial Relations | 28 / 61 | 54th | Q2 |
| Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | 137 / 254 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present (also 1987–1991), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.8.
Labour and Industry is Q2 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 105 of 283), Q2 in Public Administration (rank 109 of 248) and Q2 in Industrial Relations (rank 28 of 61), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Labour and Industry 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 2.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.335, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 29.
Labour and Industry is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 1030-1763 and its online ISSN is 2325-5676.
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.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
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.
Labour and Industry has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 1.46 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #127 of 274 Scopus journals in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous).
Labour and Industry published 26 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 37. 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 99 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Australia (31.8%), New Zealand (12.5%) and United Kingdom (9.3%).
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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