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Work in the Global Economy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.4), ABS / AJG 2. Published by Policy Press.
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ISSN 2732-4176Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Policy Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences (all) | 58 / 286 | 79th | Q1 |
| Economics and Econometrics | 236 / 755 | 68th | Q2 |
| Industrial Relations | 20 / 61 | 68th | Q2 |
| Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management | 101 / 254 | 60th | Q2 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.4.
Work in the Global Economy is Q1 in Social Sciences (all) (rank 58 of 286), Q2 in Economics and Econometrics (rank 236 of 755) and Q2 in Industrial Relations (rank 20 of 61), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Work in the Global Economy 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 4.4, quartile Q1, 79th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.795, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 11.
Work in the Global Economy is published by Policy Press. Its ISSN is 2732-4176.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
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.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Work in the Global Economy has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 2.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #49 of 268 Scopus journals in Social Sciences (all).
Work in the Global Economy published 24 papers in 2025. 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 (2021–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (30.6%), Germany (13.8%) and United States (9.2%).
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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