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Labour History is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.4), ABDC A, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Liverpool University Press.
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ISSN 0023-6942Verify ISSN ↗1839-3039Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 943 / 1936 | 51st | Q2 |
| Industrial Relations | 50 / 61 | 18th | Q4 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 1293 / 1530 | 15th | Q4 |
| Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | 234 / 254 | 8th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1980–present (also 1975–1977, 1966–1973, 1963–1964), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.4.
Labour History is Q2 in History (rank 943 of 1936), Q4 in Industrial Relations (rank 50 of 61) and Q4 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 1293 of 1530), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Labour History 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 0.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 51st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.117, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 18.
Labour History is published by Liverpool University Press. Its print ISSN is 0023-6942 and its online ISSN is 1839-3039.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Human resources and industrial relations.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Labour History has an h-index of 82 and a 2-year mean of 0.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,115 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Labour History published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 120. 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 10 research articles (2024–2025), authors are most often from Australia (90%) and Switzerland (10%). 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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